Managed a couple of hours on the bike yesterday, good stuff.

Just a couple of questions on whether They All Do That, Sir:

1. The idle is 1100rpm, which is line with the figures I found using a Search on here. But it stutters slightly, sounding a bit like a bull panting through it's nostrils. Seems like character to me, but does it indicate it's running slightly rough?

2. It heats up pretty quickly, and the fan kicks in. Admittedly, I ended up in city centre traffic for a while, so it may have just been that.

3. I put 10 litres in the tank and the gauge went from almost Reserve to Full, and stayed there. This can't be right can it?

cheers, Ray

 

1 and 2 could be that you need to synchronize the carbs. My fuel gauge shows full until 3/4's then moves slowly, then shows empty at 1/4 tank. I use my trip odometer for fuel stops.

 

The fuel guages are notoriously inaccurate. Mine shows in the red reserve after about 3 gallons. Little less than half.
If yours is a mk 2 like mine Sprock says that swapping a mk 3 sender makes a big improvement.

 

Correctamundo ranchome indeed it does and the sender from a mark 3
reaches all the way back to the low point where the petcock is the
Mark 2 only reaches half the way back and does not descend low enough
and so reads empty when there is still 1 1/2 to 2 gals left , 6 or 7 litres