the saga continues.....
Last night I stuck the airbox back on, did some re-routing of the various cables and wired everything back up again.
Lessons:
First - I wasted 20 mins fitting and refitting the throttle cables when I thought I'd got them the wrong way around (my own stupid fault for not marking them up first). Also - I knew which one did the 'pulling' so I should of known something else was amiss.....
One of the cables had come out of the adjuster housing at the HANDLEBAR end!!!
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Once that was sorted things were better.
However, the throttle on my bike has never snapped back as I thought it should - so, lube spray in hand I peeled back the foam grip and squirted between the bar and throttle tube - sorted!!!! Instant throttle....BUT rolled back the foam grip - and back to slow shut off -
it was the bloody foam grip it was too long and hung onto the bar end slowing it down - DOH! Stanley knife attack later - Truely sorted.
Battery in......tank on....moment of truth.
Fire extingusher on hand (not a bad idea when a fuel system has been worked on I think) - and Ignition on.
Good Stuff - fuel pumping around, no leaks - can hardly smell any petrol at all, big improvement over previous state, already.
So....Deep breath....hit the starter button - CLICK........POP......everything goes dead!
15A fuse had blown on ignition circuit.
Let the hunting begin - fuse replaced, all OK again so hopefully, no damage done.
Checked all cables, all good - no bare connections, then.....
IDIOT !!! I spotted the fault - my home grown effort of a starter solenoid (1000cc Mini item) has a multitude of extra connection points and I routed the energising line to the wrong one - so it was earthed straight away - Double DOH!
I must cut the spares off or put a dummy connetor on.
TAKE TWO - Ignition !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yippee, almost on the starter - a bit rough and reluctant to tick over but, she sounds crisp on the throttle.
Ooops - its 11:30pm so that was the end of noisy time. During the afternoon I'd hopped up to Westgate road in Newcastle and treated myself to a Carbon effect fuel tank sticker kit. There is some corrosion on the outer ring that I just can't get rid of - and of course, its right under my nose, so....£6 quid later and I have a Carbon 'effect' tank cap.
Here is a link to the supplier:
http://www.bikeit.co.uk Passage Of Time I must admit I was an excited puppy when I saw the sun shine this morning.
Chores done - it was straight back to work again. Paddock stand out and full warm up, followed by bringing up the tick-over properly and then trying to set the balance up.
I use a John Morgan Carbtune which is a Mercury vac gauge I bought years ago. At tick over there was about 1cm difference in the vaccuum while at 3500 rpm there was about 1/2 a cm difference. After a bit of fiddling I managed to get the 3500 rpm bang on at Zero (didnt want to rev any higher really as the neighours were getting restless) with the tick-over suffering slightly. Funny thing is, the tick over actually feels better than it did before - so I dunno!
Gotta go for a spin !!!
Phoned buddy up and agreed to a quick ride over to Whitby. Kit on - brimming with excitement and as soon as I sit on the bike.......RAIN appears...Ho Hum - a true throttle test then.
The verdict is still out on if it has all been worthwhile - pickup feels a little bit crisper and crusing, along with general control feels better. The 'hiccup' seems to have gone (please !!!) but there is occassionally a 'lag' when trying to gas hard in the lower gears that I dont remember being there before.
Having said that - I had the front wheel go light when I gassed her quite hard in second gear
Coffee stop in Whitby - erm...Whistlestop cafe? Right next to the train station - smashing place and bike friendly (small parking spot and visor cleaning kit outside - excellent).
Starting to really enjoy the bike now - blat to pickering. Low point of the ride, BIG tail back of traffic, a poor Blade rider had collided with a car on a slightly blind up-hill section and must of been badly injured as he was Air lifted away, apparently. A very sobering event, especially after all that has been posted here lately but, we continue with the most vidgilence we can manage.
Coffee stop at Hemsley (Great place and hello to a nice Yellow 748 with tank bag funny looking ultra high-level tail pack), finally the 'TT' run back to Stokesley and then back home.
Not a beat missed at all. Even the rain couldn't dampen my enthusiasm both during and after the ride.
I think its time for a Dyno session to make sure everything is as it should be, and I certainly want to check the plugs (should of at least cleaned the back plug before I went out - I guess).
Hopefully, thats it engine wise.
Next is a brake conversion to a larger bore master cylinder on the front.
Followed by winter projects of rebuilding the forks and trying to raise the handlebars (but I'll have to try dropping the forks a little first for testing the project out before hand).....
Oh dear....time for another trackday then
Regards - Frank