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My New Project arrives after a 44 year wait!
McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
I agree with Johnny - looking at the "push mile 400" it is a painted part the clutch cable cover.
I'm pleased I kept my 400 even though I'm too tall for long journeys on her.
My 500 build is still waiting for an injection of enthusiasm - a nice warm spell would work for me.
Laverda Dave:
I reckon if you pop out to the garage for a couple of hours Ted you'll get the enthusiasm back. I lost my enthusiasm when the steering stem stripped. Having to find another and get it blasted and powder coated was a real downer. The thought of having to strip the front end and get the bearings off kept me inside finding other things to do!
Eventually reality kicked in and I knew I was the only one who would be doing the job and the sooner I got it done the quicker I could move forward so that's what I did and I've been in the garage over the last four days with renewed enthusiasm. Although that was tested again yesterday when fitting the new Boyer ignition system. A quick two hour job turned into five hours as the leads from the ignition box were too short and no matter where I tried to locate the ignition box it fouled on something or the leads were too short. Eventually I located it in the inside of the side panel with velcro and extended the leads to the coils. I also made up a new set of leads from the ignition pick ups to the ignition box as these were also missing.
McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
No bike work today Dave due to having had a rear wisdom tooth extracted!
I'm trying not to dribble from my partly anesthetised lower half of what feels like a semi-detached mouth.
Laverda Dave:
Well, I finally achieved the first start up yesterday, the bikes first start in over 20 years!
It's suffering from an erratic tick over as in sometimes it does tick over but most of the time it doesn't! All cylinders are firing although it does slightly hang on the throttle before settling back down and I have to keep using the choke to start it and knock it straight off.
I set the dynamic timing on the Boyer, something I hate doing with a newly started engine so did it very quickly!
I connected the vacuum gauges and all was well although they were reading very high, at the 5pm position so I set them back to a more acceptable 3pm position although this hasn't cured the tick over. I'll try some fresh fuel before delving any deeper as the fuel I have is about 2 months old so it could be going off.
On the bright side at least the carbs haven't leaked but that could also mean the floats are not correct either (although these were checked and checked again)! Likewise the pilots are all clear as these were checked countless times with compressed air and carb cleaner sprayed through them.
I'll give it another go tomorrow, it seems to be a 400/4 thing, troublesome carbs!
Johnny4428:
You would think with the care and time putting these machines back together after much stripping cleaning fettling that these things would just run up without issues! I guess they rarely do without that final fettling, but your well on the way to getting her out on the road Dave.😜
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