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On Saturday night I received the repaired and recovered seat from my neighbour. It looks and feels great, Greg did a great job.
Waiting on ebay to deliver my new starter so I can toss it in there.Ride went well, but the new carb setting is slower than before. I’ve lost some top speed, and the 5,000-7,000 rpm pull is weaker. But starting is WAY easier, and up to 5,000rpm feels stronger.
Not sure how to proceed other than keep riding and check my spark plugs at a later date.
I could try to lean the needle jet (currently in richest position), but it’s a solid 2-hours of work for a 10-second adjustment, which may not improve my condition. Sooo, ride it out is the current plan.Well I finally got my test ride in this morning…. to the fas station…. on my way into work. Trial by fire I suppose haha.
The carb work was noticeable pretty quickly, bike starts much faster and the idle speed is much more controlled. The exhaust note is deeper now that the fuel mixture is fatter too, amd the bike smells like an old machine too. Glad I’m not lean anymore.
The clutch, no change noticed at all, except it doesnt slip when cold now. So that’s good.Gonna take a long ride home, try to run some no winter maintenance roads.
Monday night in The Shop, I finally completed the clutch job on my bike! AND a repair on the muffler so I can clamp down on tbe midpipe seal. BUT WAIT, there’s more. I also test fired the motor post carb rebuild, and she fired up sweet, the choke knob even performs a function now too. This morning I finished bolting on all the extra stuff that had to come off like the fuel tank, seat and number plates.
I’m pretty pleased with my efforts, but won’t put on a seal of approval until I have a successful test ride (hopefully after work tonight). It’s too dark at 5:45 am to be stuck on the side of a county road for some bullshitty thing I goofed up.
An update on Truckee, the air bags I added handled the atv and Ardbeg perfectly! At 60psi I had essentially returned to stock unladen height, and kept off the bump stops all weekend. Money well spent.
Glad the Taco tows well, shitty deal on the rad. A little strain and heat called out a weak link eh.
Your fuelling troubles all sorted out?
This Taco proving a worthy setup for you yet? I remember your buddies were into touring more and krawling less. Does the Taco tour on par?
The ATV starter crapped out on me. Weds night I used the starter to move the stv up the ramps into the Taco. Thursday night at ardbeg, only the starter solenoid clicked. I hoped riding a bunch would charge the battery enough, but I was forced to pull start all weekend. Now at home I put the good charger on the battery, ran it through a charge cycle, and still no start. Just a thick click of the relay. I’ll pull the battery out and run it through a recondition charge cycle, and hopefully that’s enough to get her going. Otherwise I’ll try using the booster with the battery to rule out the battery being defective. I really hope the starter and one-way bearing are in good shape, don’t wanna replace those parts, nor do I wanna pull start forever.
A great wheelin’ trip! We ran Black lake loop and north trail. Not sure if the guys did a run this morning or not, I drove home Sat night.
I’ve put up some event pics in the club chat area
Skunk Lake
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Here’s some photos from Ardbeg 2022. On Friday we ran Black Lake Loop, and Saturday we ran North Trail to Skunk Lake.
The value Sounds OK to me. 4×4 and low kms makes it pretty decent. They are lower priced machines out there, but kms or abuse is usually reflective. Not sure how much flip potential it has, maybe $3G (to the right buyer) with perfect brakes.
ATV Brakes are usually pretty cheap to fix. The rears may just meed tension added to the cable, or preload on the shoes. So long as they aren’t seized, rears tend to seize (from what I hear).
Just ran Black Lake loop on my 1991 Suzuki 250 4×4, ran like a champ. Only 2 mud holes stopped me, but none of the trucks made it through the same holes either.
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