what did you wrench on today??

[rustybronco]

I was thinking ... black.

Shhhh! don't tell anyone or that colour may catch on with the general populace.

[Hovmod]

Hahaha, I know, right?
After *that green*, I can do with a little blending in.

[ptexotik]

installed Motobatt AGM battery in ES. (std acid battery took a dump after 3 yrs / minimal use / consistent battery tender top-ups)

kinda like the bright yellow Motobatt peaking thru underneath ... and excellent cranking!

[chuck hahn]

Took the Cooley carbs out of the dip and rebuilt them. Put them on the bike and put the gauges on them. Now I can usually eyeball the bench sync pretty close, but this was a stunner!!! I just had to tweek carb 3 ever so slightly and all 4 needles were dead on with each other.

Next was the colortune and set the mixture screws. Sewing machine smooth again.

[Meriban]

Installed the carbs

Then I rebuilt the master cylinders and made a wire device to hold the clutch cable away from the head...Put the oil pan back on and cleaned the pump screen...I am slowly getting the thing back together.

[Guest]

Finally had to rebuild the carb on my 35 year old Montgomery Ward air compressor this last weekend, wouldn't run lol. Runs like a stripped ass ape now.

[GreatDane]

Youngest daughter and I got the carbs back in and installed new air filter and cleaned up and installed the air box.

Getting closer....

[Guest]

About due time

Well the old 78' 1000 took a back seat to the 80' 1000G this year. It was about due time I showed her some luvin'. Poor thing.



A couple of days later



She's not running well at all but she's back together so that's a start. Mikuni 29mm smoothbores, Marzocchi shocks, Tarozzi rearsets, K&N pods, Lockhart oil cooler with colour matching braided lines, Marving 4 into 1 racing exhaust, super bars, change over from spokes to mags and dual discs up front. The gas tank sprung a pin hole leak and she's running like crap but I'm happy.

[Meriban]

Rebuilt the brakes, master cylinders, and added all new SS brake lines. Finishing cleaning the exhaust today then installing the exhaust, pegs and all control surfaces.

[Guest]

Drained the oil last night ready to service this weekend. Cam chain tensioner getting a rebuild as well, and also trying to repair the horn and get my throttle cable routing sorted out.

[wally]

More troubles...

On the way to work Thursday the Uly started acting up.
Exhaust was really loud, backfired a lot and then started misfiring when I slowed down.

It really started sounding like an open pipe Harley...

Turns out the O2 sensor on the rear header had cracked completely off!





Now the bad part...getting to back header involves 1 of 2 processes.
1. Drop motor
2. Drop rear suspension

I went with option 2 and after about 90 mins it was out!

Now to find out if it is fixable...

[rustybronco]

More troubles...

On the way to work Thursday the Uly started acting up.
Exhaust was really loud, backfired a lot and then started misfiring when I slowed down.


Now to find out if it is fixable...

It is fixable. But, more likely than not, it crack again after it's been re-welded. Then the question is, just how long it will it take for that to happen.

[wally]

True! Finding parts in South Africa is difficult enough. Couple that with a really crappy exchange rate...

Taking it to the guy who did the custom exhaust for my project bike to see what his recommendations are.

[rustybronco]

Wally, if they don't charge you much to weld it and you don't mind removing it again at a later date, welding it would be give you the best of both worlds in my mind. That would allow you to still drive it while giving you the time to find a replacement for it at the best possible price.

It looks like it could be made out of stainless steel. See if a magnet will pull at it fairly strongly. If the magnets pull appears to be weak, it should be made from stainless.

[Guest]

What a bugger Wally! Hopefully the solution's not too painful...

I checked the valve clearances, rebuilt the cam chain tensioner, and put the new oil in last night.

Clearances haven't changed since last service.

A tip when doing the tensioner... don't use too much loctite on the nut holding the adjust on, I had to pull it all apart and clean it up again after it didn't seem to want to operate... loctite held the knurled knob in place

This time around I'm going from the Castrol GTX Diesel to Penrite Everyday Fully Synthetic 10w40. Our diesel oil doesn't have the same levels of zinc as ones like the Rotella in the US apparently, but the Penrite has good word of mouth over here from the GS500 guys. Will see how it goes.

Still to sort out the throttle cable routing and clean out under the sprocket cover.