Friday, May 7, 2010
Rode the Legend to Lake Matthews
Sometimes I'm ambivalent about the prescence of humans in the Southern California Desert.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Headlight and Legal!
Took off the left turn signal to fix the headlight/turn signal bracket. The connector was a little greasy, and I needed a couple of needlenose pliers to get them apart.
For the bracket, I used standard JB Weld, with embedded pieces of solid wire perpendicular to the break, on the back of the bracket. I'll post pictures-the chrome's not going to look good anymore. Hopefully this will hold well.
Also, it's legal! Me and Jerry went down to AAA to register it and transfer title! Seriously considering AAA membership-it went quickly. Too bad I can't take my written test there.
Now I need to figure out where to put the registration when I'm riding.
For the bracket, I used standard JB Weld, with embedded pieces of solid wire perpendicular to the break, on the back of the bracket. I'll post pictures-the chrome's not going to look good anymore. Hopefully this will hold well.
Also, it's legal! Me and Jerry went down to AAA to register it and transfer title! Seriously considering AAA membership-it went quickly. Too bad I can't take my written test there.
Now I need to figure out where to put the registration when I'm riding.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Sunday, April 18, 2010
ok.
Things left to do:
Check oil again
Check coolant
Fix shifter
clean petcock filter
grease
top up break fluid
oil chain
Check oil again
Check coolant
Fix shifter
clean petcock filter
grease
top up break fluid
oil chain
Fail #1!
Got the carbs back on yesterday. Complete lack of catching-turns over ok still.
Thoughts on possible problems:
1. Flooded: Adjust the floats. Didn't do this before, probably should have.
2. Spark: Test all three plugs for spark.
3. Compression: hopefully it's not this, since I have no clue where to go forward on this one.
4. Maybe I didn't get all of the gunk out of the carburetor channels.
Doug Douglas Motorcycles rocked me!
I was running the kid somewhere, doing a final soak of components in carburetor cleaner, and proceeded to toss me float needles in the mixture. Needless to say, the rubber parts crumbled like a very crumbly thing.
Luckily, Doug Douglas had 3 in stock!!
BTW, the Harley part did not fit.
Thoughts on possible problems:
1. Flooded: Adjust the floats. Didn't do this before, probably should have.
2. Spark: Test all three plugs for spark.
3. Compression: hopefully it's not this, since I have no clue where to go forward on this one.
4. Maybe I didn't get all of the gunk out of the carburetor channels.
Doug Douglas Motorcycles rocked me!
I was running the kid somewhere, doing a final soak of components in carburetor cleaner, and proceeded to toss me float needles in the mixture. Needless to say, the rubber parts crumbled like a very crumbly thing.
Luckily, Doug Douglas had 3 in stock!!
BTW, the Harley part did not fit.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Waiting for the one day.
Hopefully the parts will come in, everything will work, and I can ride the weekend after next. Still contemplating a replacement needle, one of mine looks a little damaged. I just need to make sure that I put that one on the #1 or #3 carb-then I can just pop the top off and drop in a new one.
Meanwhile, doing research. Here's the triumphrat post by MarkBartels on replacing out the instrument lights with LEDs. He uses: "(6) 74-xHP Wedge Base LED Bulb-White 74-WHP for the idiot lights & blinker indicators. (4) WLED-x5 LED Wide Angle LED bulbs-Warm White WLED-WW5 0.95 for the clocks."
Super Bright LEDs seems to sell the right ones.
Meanwhile, doing research. Here's the triumphrat post by MarkBartels on replacing out the instrument lights with LEDs. He uses: "(6) 74-xHP Wedge Base LED Bulb-White 74-WHP for the idiot lights & blinker indicators. (4) WLED-x5 LED Wide Angle LED bulbs-Warm White WLED-WW5 0.95 for the clocks."
Super Bright LEDs seems to sell the right ones.
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