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Will it run? - need to put exhaust on?

Andrew Vanis

Andrew Vanis

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Trying to see if a non-runner runs. Will be cleaning the carbs. The exhaust is not straight forward. Will a test run without the exhaust work? (I'm guessing it will be loud) if it does fire w.o the exhaust, will the missing exhaust give symptoms that may indicate issues that may not actually be there if the exhaust was installed?
 
You could run it long enough to see if there's anything major wrong with the internals IF you can hear something out of whack. Don't expect to be able to get it doing much beyond running though, truth is if you do get it running you'll still need to go through things like carbs, checking out ignition system etc. either way. Like I mentioned, you're only going to be able see if there's major problems.
 
I couldn't resist when I was installing a new, chrome-ier exhaust on my Z1. So I hit the button when one (or more) of the pipes were not installed. It fired...literally.

The noise, you can imagine. It may have been the flame that scared me most, but I quickly hit the kill switch and never tried it again.
 
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