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Post by Travis "Zombie" Mihm on Oct 19, 2013 21:22:13 GMT -5
And my God, is it ever fun to ride... -Travis
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2013 14:08:39 GMT -5
What a beast! What did you do to it to restore it?
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Post by Travis "Zombie" Mihm on Oct 21, 2013 14:34:34 GMT -5
Well, it was stripped completely down to the engine/trans, frame, and forks. From there, I went to work painting lots of the smaller parts, replacing broken electrical connections, removing unwanted baggage like brackets, wires that went to electrical components in the fairing the bikes come with, replacing broken fasteners, etc. I then made some modifications to the wiring harness, relocated turn signals, installed custom lights, etc. Everything got reasonably cleaned up (There was lots of flat black over spray from the previous owner, and being CDO I had to wipe it all clean from the gloss black frame and other components), some parts were polished, others were scuffed up to a matte finish. I thoroughly cleaned the carbs (on more than one occasion...) and they were recalibrated and synced. I added a TrailTech Vapor Stealth digital gauge cluster for a cleaner look, replaced the tall oem cruiser bars with backswept drag bars and custom grips, replaced brake pads and a caliper. Cleaned and polished the rims, painted the fork tube, deleted the front fender and factory speedo stuff, cleaned the radiator, painted it and then ghosted a skull into the fins. Installed custom temp gauge, speedo sensor, tach pickup, etc to work with the TrailTech, replaced the clutch cable, removed the crash bars, replaced lots of gaskets, etc... The seat was originally ripped up and was designed for a two-up cruiser with the big "fat-man" lumps at the back of each seating position. Took the seat apart, reshaped the foam, added a little fiber material between the foam and the new marine vinyl covering so that it looked smoother, and then I spent quite a few hours stretching and recovering the seat with the marine vinyl. Oil filter housing was siezed to the front cover, so the front cover and filter housing were replaced. Engine covers were painted, LED warning lights were set into the tank shelter (which I'm still working on), rear drive was cleaned and regreased, factory air-ride suspension was deleted and replaced with shorter adjustable dual-rate coilovers in the back and blocked off air-assist in the front. Lots of troubleshooting and nonsense later, she's a pretty sweet machine.
-Travis
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2013 11:47:24 GMT -5
Holy balls man.....you did a complete restore lol.....looks great
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Post by Travis "Zombie" Mihm on Nov 1, 2013 19:38:37 GMT -5
Thanks. I can't believe I'm going to have to sell it, but... bills and shit. Lol.
-Travis
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Post by Travis "Zombie" Mihm on Nov 6, 2013 17:16:16 GMT -5
Well, there is one little shining tidbit of good news in the midst of my old college being bastards and me having to get a job and go back to work to pay off all this debt. I'm not moving, I'm keeping the bike, it's getting a plate next week, and she's gonna be on the road legally. Which is going to be awesome.
-Travis
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Post by Travis "Zombie" Mihm on Nov 13, 2013 17:41:16 GMT -5
EFFF THISSS GODDAMN FUEL LEAK.
Somehow, the carb for Cyl 2 is leaking fuel errwhar when the bike is running. I don't understand where. I just replaced all of the float bowl gaskets, put it all back in the bike, and now it's leaking from just the one spot now. But I don't know how or why or where. Only does it when it's running. Wtf yo.
-Travis
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2013 8:48:42 GMT -5
Hmm, if it doesnt leak when the engine is off and gas is in the bowl then that suggests the seals are good and that the bowl must be overflowing when the bike is running. What would make the bowl overflow would be a bad float needle or the float itself.
1) I think the easiest diagnostic is just to open up cyl 1 (the known good cyl) and cyl 2 (the known bad cyl) and then start pressing down on the floats comparing the two. If you have a bad float, a pin is jammed or something is dirty and clogged up, then we'd suspect that the cyl 2 float wont move as freely/smoothly as cyl 1
2) Your floats in cyl 2 could be really old and worn out, and thus perforated, which would allow it to fill with the fuel, thus making it always sink to the bottom of the bowl no matter what, which would allow that cyl to always fill with fuel no matter what, which would lead to a constant overflow condition and fuel spewing out constantly when the motor is running.
3) The float needle and or the fuel line that the float needle goes inside of could be all clogged up and dirty. When everything is working properly, the bowl fills with fuel, the float rises to the top of the bowl, which then pushes the float needle inside the fuel line to stop the flow of fuel. But if that fuel line and/or needle is clogged up, the needle will never properly close off that fuel line, which will overflow the bowl, and spew gas everywhere.
So open her back up and keep playing around!
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Post by Travis "Zombie" Mihm on Nov 14, 2013 10:13:06 GMT -5
I figured it out. There's an orifice that feeds fuel from one bank of carbs to the other through the intake plenum, and passes through a little hole where the carb bolts to the plenum. There's supposed to be a little rubber grommet there to seal it against the plenum, and what I found looked like a cheerio. Lol. So that's gotta get replaced and then maybe my bike will love me.
-Travis
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2013 10:50:31 GMT -5
Nice, although i'm still chuckling at the thought of you turning into the "Burning Lead Sled", in a longgggg trail of fire as all your un-burnt fuel catches and blows up lol.
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Post by Travis "Zombie" Mihm on Nov 14, 2013 11:47:57 GMT -5
OMG I COULD BE LIKE NIGHT RIDER!
That was actually phase two of my idea haha. I want to add some logging chain somewhere, it has to be done. And the mufflers are totally coming off at some point and being replaced with some header-wrapped, slash-cut straight pipes haha.
-Travis
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2013 12:12:21 GMT -5
hmm, almost looks like the same d@mn bike lol
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