Operation Awesome Bike!

[motorbyclist]

didn't look at wire colours, but there was two wires to the rear carb and one to the front. assumed it used vacuum like some cars do... heater never crossed my mind that's for sure.

alot of hoses and they all seemed to be devoid of fuel (except for the two fuel lines), which would make sense for a vacuum to operate a diaphragm (i did say it was retarded, didn't i?)

did think about a fuel pump, don't beleive i saw one. but i'm not a carby expert.

the intake manifolds, being the black rubber bits between carbys and cylinder heads, are perishing. all cracked on the outside, ok on the inside, still as flexible as is should be

[motorbyclist]

oh all this bike work has got me looking for a project...

which for me means looking for the most sorry looking rusty piece of crap that must not be running when i recieve it.... of course i'm not stupid and i know i can get parts for the things though..

whaddaya reckon?

now

6 months time

only bummer is i've already done an XR200 and XL125 so i'll know what i'm doing, and we all know how that is never any fun....


EDIT: just remembered i have two bikes in the shed both in need of love and riding, plus i'm broke, so maybe no project for me after all

[Squiggles]

oh all this bike work has got me looking for a project...

which for me means looking for the most sorry looking rusty piece of crap that must not be running when i recieve it.... of course i'm not stupid and i know i can get parts for the things though..

Too slow, i've bought all the crap off trademe already

[klyong82]

The bike blew up?? You're kidding?!

BTW just checking did you find those fairing bolts at all or na?

House is been renovated so got all the crap everywhere....if you can wait if not just pinch some from Squiggles TL lol. I'll have a look again when I get home.

The bike didn't blow up lol kim is just being a rumour spreader, she runns but with no power, it's a carby problem. I have to head out tomorrow and buy rubber hosing and contact cleaner, maybe spark timing is off. Gonna need big guns on this one so yeah SOS to gijoe and squiggles and the such. Gonna be a real fun week :P oh im not working anymore tomorrow so feel free to com around from midday onwards!

Well when I got there, there was a blonde who told me it blew up.....the conrods sticking out......spark plug coils blew 10metres away ...corrosion here and there...

[Squiggles]

Mikuni BDS26, as used on hyosung GT250s' (and presumably the R's as well as the GV250's)

http://www.seaies.com/New/sec2.html

Take a look at that carb boot, looks awefully similar. More investigation needed.

[motorbyclist]

ah, the old project bikes

reckon dushi needs one in much worse state.... dushi buy that xr100!


uncle just returned the old xl125.... had an electrical problem i couldn't nut out. turns out more or less everything burned out at once. magnetos, "random box thingy", a few coils here and there, you name it - it all got replaced. now starts first pop - and to think the old man thought it was my top end work! no faith whatsoever

pic of the old xr200, post engine rebuild and cosmetics, pre forks rebuild and my homemade muffler.... think i was running on a bent rear shock at that point too

[ital916]

Mikuni BDS26, as used on hyosung GT250s' (and presumably the R's as well as the GV250's)

http://www.seaies.com/New/sec2.html

Take a look at that carb boot, looks awefully similar. More investigation needed.

After some research I have found that the Mikuni BDS26 is indeed the carb in the srv. The virago runs a single and the srv runs dual mikuni bds26 carbs!

[motorbyclist]

for MOAR POWER!

(and more problems too)

[ital916]

for MOAR POWER!

(and more problems too)

Did someone say MOOOOOAAAAARRRRRRR POOOOWWWWEEEEEEEEERRRRR! Whilst were working on my bike why don't we modify it and attach a supercharger!

[motorbyclist]

how many spare clutches/gearboxes you got?

[ital916]

Okay stephen, problem founded. It the front cylinder...it's doing nothing. So the problem is with the front carb, need to pull it out, take it apart and find the problem. Or just buy a new carb and bang it in there. lol

[motorbyclist]

what do you mean it's doing nothing?

[xwhatsit]

what do you mean it's doing nothing?

It's not firing.

Bike is only running on one cylinder -- probably explains the knackered-GN performance.

[motorbyclist]

LOL

now why didn't i bother to check the front cylinder was firing? we pulled it out, it was pretty clean, i thought "that's a bit weird", put it back in and checked the rear plug for spark

didn't even do the normal trick of seeing if any headers weren't heating up....

[shingo]

The front plug is firing, but is suppling no power when the throttle is open.

They had the rear plug out and it would idle with only the front cylinder going, but as soon as you gave it some gas it would die.

Dushy is going to clean out the front carb at some stage to see if there is anything obviously wrong with it, and hopefully fix the problems by doing so.