Put my new plate on, now ready for bike night, tonight!

 

Ever since I bought this bike 3 yrs. ago off of ebay it`s been a pain in the *** to start. When I received it it would start w/full choke but wouldn`t stay running. Eventually I got it running and there were clearly carb problems. Next spring after $1900.00 to my local Honda dealer for complete carb rebuild, master cylinder and slave cylinder rebuild and new fork seals I ran great but still was a bitch to start. This year it died a few times and wouldn`t stay running. We have a former intern, now a real engineer who is into fixing computers and older bikes. As a last resort I asked him to take the bike and try to figure out was was wrong. Bike also ran very rich and got lousy gas mileage and had some vibration over 4000 RPM.
Andy disassembled the carbs and found the jets were the Ca. jets, main reason for the bike running rich. after much fiddling he determined the fuel pump was dying. New pump and he re calibrated the counterbalancer for 5000RPM. Bike starts every morning without the choke and is much smoother at 5000 RPM. He flushed the radiator and new anti-freeze. Total bill $180.00 which included the pump. Kids a friggin genius.

 

Sounds good rwl1955, you need to keep him happy. Hard to find a good Mechanic

 

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Nice bike Indiana. I have the same color. Any source on replacement body parts.

 

If your talking about plastic; Flebay and HERE. If you see them on Flebay you have to grab them when you can. You will pay a pretty penny for them. You can't wait and say well if they are there in the morning I will buy it then, cause they will be gone... Just my $.02

 

Went to Bike Night tonight. Took some pics with my phone. I need to start taking my camera with me again...

 

And maybe this ?
I just turned on the lights...........

 

Indiana
what the hell is flebay? Also my fan quit working. any suggestions?

 

DUH! I get it, another word for ebay? My gas tank needs to be repainted. I looks like someone dripped so brake fluid on it. The paint is starting to peel. I`m sure it would cost a fortune to have the tank repainted.

 

no way Maxwell