After just a little tweaking, things are much better.
The change he seemed to like best was switching to 2 squirts per cycle simultaneous. This smoothed out a lopey idle that I was about to blame on the plugs. They are in need of changing, anyway, so I’ll do that. The ignition system on these bikes are notoriously weak, so when I get it switched to EDIS, things will probably improve again.
Other than that, there was a hesitation on reving. I looked at the Acceleration Wizard and found what I presume was the default setting to 100% TPS based. I merely moved the slider to the center and the hesitation is gone.
The engine seems to be running well enough that I can likely do little more tuning before I can ride it.
Riding it is held back by two things. Primarily, the tank is currently off. I need to fit a return line to it and I don’t want to do that without a valve for it. I will visit my neighborhood shop (which has been very helpful in this and other projects) tomorrow and get an appropriate valve and fit it to the tank. I will also get him the part number for the K&N filters I want to try.
Of some concern about fuel, I saw somewhere where someone burned up a fuel pump because the stock petcock in their application could not supply fuel quickly enough to cool the pump. It flowed enough to supply the engine, but not enough volume to cool the pump. I’m not going to worry about that before it’s a problem, but I will be looking for it.
The other thing holding back a ride is that in the time the bike has been sitting unused, the front brake appears to have gone completely dry. There is some misting on the caliper, but it doesn’t appear that all the brake fluid leaked out, but nonetheless, there is none in the reservoir. Granted, for a test ride, filling and bleeding the brake system will be fine, but the actual problem needs to be addressed…
As I sit here typing on my laptop, which sitting a board across the arms of a camp chair within easy reach of Buzz, I’m filled with a great sense of satisfaction. I made it go!
Let’s not add up the dollars just yet….