OK, I preface this by saying that I am marginally competent with working on my bike, actually, I am arguably completely incompetent.
I can rebuild carbs, set the valve clearances, replace a kickstart shaft and bypass shorts with the best of them but thats about as far as I have had to go so far. To be honest, have the stuff on this forum is generally well beyond my limited vocab.
While riding back the other day, my bike stalled out. Pulled over and was horrified to see my left float bowl hanging on by the fuel lines. As luck would have it, I had one screw still hanging in there and with my trusty allen key, I managed to get the float back in and cinched up. The bike was not happy but I managed to get it back the last 8 miles to my house.
Once home, I pulled the carb off, burned my hand. checked the carb out, reseated the bowl, burned my hand yet again, slapped it back together and fired it up. Bike not happy I would say.
Left side running poorly/intermittent etc. Throttle it up and the left side is shooting fire out the ass like I had fed it a spicy burrito. I have removed the carb again and am soaking it in cleaner however I am slightly worried that I may have damaged something more serious.
As mentioned, the left cylinder seems to be back-firing and I swear that when it was running, there was an ominous metallic ticking noise that I don't remember ever having. Seemed to be coming from the cylinders. When it was running, the oil seemed to be pumping ok (return line is clear plastic variety). I pulled the valve covers off and the valves seem to move correctly and be gapped ok. ie no obvious large chunks of metal were present.
OK, I know this is a vague question but do you guys think I could have messed anything up in the guts? Anything I should look for without ripping the head off?
At this point of the story you can probably smell my fear of the unknown crankcase. Please be sure to type slowly and use big words.
Humbly, B-Stone
I can rebuild carbs, set the valve clearances, replace a kickstart shaft and bypass shorts with the best of them but thats about as far as I have had to go so far. To be honest, have the stuff on this forum is generally well beyond my limited vocab.
While riding back the other day, my bike stalled out. Pulled over and was horrified to see my left float bowl hanging on by the fuel lines. As luck would have it, I had one screw still hanging in there and with my trusty allen key, I managed to get the float back in and cinched up. The bike was not happy but I managed to get it back the last 8 miles to my house.
Once home, I pulled the carb off, burned my hand. checked the carb out, reseated the bowl, burned my hand yet again, slapped it back together and fired it up. Bike not happy I would say.
Left side running poorly/intermittent etc. Throttle it up and the left side is shooting fire out the ass like I had fed it a spicy burrito. I have removed the carb again and am soaking it in cleaner however I am slightly worried that I may have damaged something more serious.
As mentioned, the left cylinder seems to be back-firing and I swear that when it was running, there was an ominous metallic ticking noise that I don't remember ever having. Seemed to be coming from the cylinders. When it was running, the oil seemed to be pumping ok (return line is clear plastic variety). I pulled the valve covers off and the valves seem to move correctly and be gapped ok. ie no obvious large chunks of metal were present.
OK, I know this is a vague question but do you guys think I could have messed anything up in the guts? Anything I should look for without ripping the head off?
At this point of the story you can probably smell my fear of the unknown crankcase. Please be sure to type slowly and use big words.
Humbly, B-Stone