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  • tkent02
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    • Jan 2006
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    • Near South Park

    #31
    How is your compression?
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    Life is too short to ride an L.

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    • Good Times

      #32
      Originally posted by tkent02
      How is your compression?
      I don't know. I don't have anything to test it with and the motor is out of the bike right now.

      It was running decent before I started this process.

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      • Good Times

        #33
        Finally!!!

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        • Big T
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          #34
          Does it run better now?
          1978 GS 1000 (since new)
          1979 GS 1000 (The Fridge, superbike replica project)
          1978 GS 1000 (parts)
          1981 GS 850 (anyone want a project?)
          1981 GPZ 550 (backroad screamer)
          1970 450 Mk IIID (THUMP!)
          2007 DRz 400S
          1999 ATK 490ES
          1994 DR 350SES

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          • allojohn
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            • Jan 2011
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            #35
            Sorry to add this but you should measure the shims with a decent set of calipers, they're not always what they say they are.
            -Mal

            "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once." - B. Banzai
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            • Good Times

              #36
              Originally posted by Big T
              Does it run better now?
              I won't know until I get the motor back in the bike. I can't imagine that it wouldn't though. By the time I run the motor again it will have a lot of new parts and clean carbs.

              It should look a lot better too.

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              • Good Times

                #37
                Originally posted by allojohn
                Sorry to add this but you should measure the shims with a decent set of calipers, they're not always what they say they are.
                I think that may have been the case with the 2.90 that I started with. I'm pretty confident in the rest of the shims seeing as they came from the shim club. Ray seems to be pretty meticulous about the sizes.

                That said, to measure is to know right?

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                • mike_of_bbg

                  #38
                  Makin' Ed proud...

                  Originally posted by Good Times
                  That said, to measure is to know right?

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                  • allojohn
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                    #39
                    Originally posted by Good Times
                    That said, to measure is to know right?
                    Can't argue with that or Ed!
                    -Mal

                    "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once." - B. Banzai
                    ___________

                    78 GS750E

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