Parts are in, and I've re-assembled the carbs. They went in flawlessly.

Tonight, I will re-assemble the bike and maybe even get it running. I have to make up a bottle manometer to balance the carbs. I have seen folks do this with tubes and with bottles, but only with bottles on two-cylinder bikes. I think I can do it with four. If I do a good job, I'll post a tutorial on here.

 

Sorry man, forgot to check this.

Well if you don't have 4 gallons of rust in your tank then you dont need that much. 1-2 gallons is like 3-8 dollars. Always the possibility of re-rusting if not sorted correctly.

Just a touch in the bottom I would throw it in to cover, set it down. Shake it when you pass it by a bit. 24 hours it should be gone especially if its not heavy. You could throw bolts etc. into it but imo its only needed when its thick protruding 1/16 or more. Stick your hand in there, if it fits, if you can knock it off by grazing it, your good to go.

RedKote is sweet too, you could also apply that yourself. 30 bucks, never have to worry again basically.

Really depends where you wanna put the dinero.

Cheers on getting it all back together.

 

It's UPDATE TIME.

Today, finished carb re-assembly, attaching parts and routing lines (boy, is the under-seat area a mess of lines!). I went through a three-ring circus of designing a temporary gas tank out of a 2-liter bottle - this exercise took me to the hardware store twice and spending $15 to make a leaky nightmare of a bottle, which I then had to improvise into a far less leaky thing using parts I already had on hand.

I had to crank and crank the bike, but it caught after about 45 seconds or so and fired right up. Idle is perfect, it revs like there's no tomorrow, and the flattish spot I had at 5k is totally gone.

I had also flushed the coolant and then filled it today with Prestone 50/50.

I'll be working on the tank again; I'd already flushed it with muriatic acid, which was pretty nasty, but it burned off the rust like nobody's business. In three or four days, when the tank has dried out, I'll use the POR-15 to coat the sumbitch and when it cures, I'll reassemble the lot and have a running bike again.

 

Next update: I finally reassembled and reinstalled the tank last Sunday, only to discover that the petcock had failed and no matter what I did, a leak would be the only outcome for me.

$43 later, I got the petcock in tonight, put it on the tank and have no leaks.

I am reassembling the bike and will have it running tomorrow.

 

Awesome job. Feel good about it man. Sure is a great feeling getting it up and running again. Sucks here in the burgh its been like 10 degrees or less, ice, snow, BLAH. I want warmer, hell Id even settle for 30's 40's and dry roads

cheers

-Poss

 

Yesterday was a really nice day - 65~ degrees F, sunny... until the evening. Then the wind came, and the temps plummeted. It's now snowing like there's no tomorrow out
I got the bike running before the weather went south on me, and took a couple of 10-mile journeys with it. It's running pretty good, but there's a tiny flat spot off idle under heavy throttle when it's warm, and a very tiny flat spot at 5k. It's better than it was before, but it needs a balance and the pilot screws to be adjusted.

I need to borrow a sensitive tach to do this, or count on my good ear. I also need to make a carb balancer out of some bottles, some stoppers and some hose.