And we have a winner! twice.

After determining that I needed a new carb body, because I couldn't get the jet out, I bid for a "new" set of carbs on ebay. Shortly after that, a buddy offered to look at the old jet. He was able to get the jet out and now just needs to rethread the body in order to fix it. In the mean time, I won the carbs off of ebay, so I will now have two complete sets! Woo hoo.

In the mean time, I began cleaning the garage up to prepare for the new carbs. I will need to clean them out and buff them up before I am able to install them again, but I am getting pretty excited about the prospect of getting the bike running again.

We shall see.

Here she is before the carb issues. What a purty bike, No?

Not quite the weekend I had hoped for...

Well... well... well...

Um, the weekend didn't turn out quite like I had hoped. Not because of the intense heat that only the mosquitos seemed to enjoy (I guess they like their food fried) or because of the many other things going on, and there were plenty. This weekend didn't turn out like I had hoped because of a dab blasted pilot jet that sat stripped out at the bottom of a small tube in one of the carburetors. I attempted to remove it with an extracting tool, but the tip of the bit broke off in the jet. Grumble grumble.

I ended up putting the carb in the freezer so I can heat up the aluminum housing and hopefully it will expand faster than the brass jet and I can get the little bugger out without seriously harming the carb. The jet is lost and I care not for it anymore. After all the trouble it has caused me, I plan to flick it over my shoulder into the bin with a good portion of disgust.

But first I will have to use the diamond tipped engraving tool on the Dremmel and get rid of the extractor tip that sits mockingly inside the jet.

Oh well, at least I got to tinker with it some this weekend. Maybe next weekend will be the magic weekend. Though at this point, I am not holding my breath.

I'm Back

Well, this summer has been a mess. Even though I have been on "vacation", I have not been in the garage for more than ten minutes, all summer long. But summer is now over and I should have a little free time to get the bike running.

New Pilot jets are on order and I hope that this weekend, I will finally be able to get in there and make this thing run. The carbs are still sitting on the workbench from last spring, I will probably need to scrub through them again and I have a new throttle and clutch cable ordered. Next is a windshield, I will have to save up for that. Oh, and the parts for the shifting problem are waiting in the box too. I am really looking forward to getting this thing running again soon.