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Careful with the tappet, i chased a loose tappet for a few hours till i nipped up the exhaust gaskets!!
Did you find any out of adjustment? Really tidy bike that Simon, looked very nice indeed. Best bet for making sure the exhaust gaskets seal properly is too loosen off the rear bolt so the back end can float a little and then tighten the front nuts up, you can twist the exhaust out of shape tightening the back bolt up first especially if you've got the hanger positioning wrong which is quite easy to do on the 500, not so sure on the 550K3 can't remember how they fitted now. Try loosening all the nuts/bolts a little and doing the fronts up first.
Maybe a job when you've got the head off?
Only place i know does the jets is siriusconic in canada.
Whilst you've got the carbs like that I'd suggest carefully removing the air (mixture) screws, screw them down first so they LIGHTLY touch down, count the turns it takes do this so you know where to put them back so they are in the same place. Then remove and inspect, check to see if the o-rings are ok and the springs in place along with the tiny washer, most importantly check the condition of the tip, is it intact, do they all look the same, people tend to ground them too hard and the tip breaks off inside the carb, might as well check now whilst it's easy to do. Should be screw, spring, washer, o-ring. Look down the holes to see if any have got stuck down there if they come out with some missing.
Good news. If you go to a big Asda they sell tins of compressed air (if you haven't got a compressor), give all the galleries a good squirting, I turn the can upside down so it comes out as liquid oxygen, you can actually see if come out then, compare each carb with the next so you know where it should be escaping, if it changes you have a blockage.
They are stocked where the mobile phone accessories are Simon.
It's called Fellowes Air Duster BTW.
That's odd, Mark said the new version took it's power from the look AFTER the ignition switch so the box was dead when the keys removed. That's permanently live by the look of it. Any customs charges Simon? Post Office usual £8 robbery?
So there's an additional live feed from where you've connected it to the battery direct? and it's switched via the black/white near the coils, can't read the instructions as they are upside down so I don't know exactly how it's wired in, I was just going off Marks wiring diagram he sent me. He said he'd altered it so it switched on/off with the ignition, which is why I queried the battery feed.
