Recent content by Sucko Gomez

I like the look also, however I'm tired of filling it twice a day and/or running out of gas. As advertised at 2.2 gallons, actually 1.7 gallons. The TR 3 is 3.5 gallons.

Sorry it took so long but I'm a Sound Engineer and its our Christmas time of year. The bottom pics are a '57 Triumph TR 3. I'm told.

Hope these made it. It has stock frame around the engine.

Does anyone have any suggestions for mounting a TR3 tank, replacing a peanut from Low Brow? I know welding on a used tank is a great way to win a Darwin award, I already have so many runners up ribbons there's not enough room on the mantle for a trophy. I was thinking rubber bushings on the...

I applied blue Locktite and spun it around to get it down to the threads. It appears to have worked but it's weeping a tiny bit. On to the tricky part. What will be the easiest way to get that nut out and what next?

I recently had to do some top end work, and read some incorrect torque specs for the head. Obviously I had oil oozing from any place it could. I read 25,11 and 7 for the head bolts, I hope it's correct now at 35, 14 and 11. I ended up stripping the threads on the delivery tube bung plug and I...

Trying desperately to find a replacement stator. HHB is out of stock for a while, and I need a replacement. I am even open to non-HHB stators, as a substitute.

Here's my '78 xs650.

It's running off the life support battery, the best I've ever heard it. Somehow my wiring for the lights was causing issues in the ignition. That's tomorrow's project.

It's a strobe, afterwards I was checking the light wiring and the blinkers were wrong, bad information. I unplugged them and now the ignition is giving me the correct signal. I don't know if it will start yet because it started to rain hard. I'll look for blinker relay wiring.

I hope my issue is that simple. I substituted a battery for the PMA and everything works, except when I spin the rotor the timing light shows a reverse of what should be. It lights up showing static and shuts off when the magnet goes over the sensor. It's firing when it shouldn't and not when it...

After cleaning the top end out and even running it through the dishwasher so there would be no unsightly spots on my glassware. Replacing 4 broken rings, waiting for 3 wrong sized master links at a week per link, fourth times a charm. I went after the hay bale of wiring, for being so simple...

Just bought a bike with some WTFU wiring, but it ran. I ripped out all the wiring to start over thinking it wouldn't be hard to rewire. Not the case though. Here is what I did, what did I do wrong?

I ended up tearing the engine apart and the insides looked like a black valour shirt and I checked the valives for seat, could have lost a whole plate of spaghetti through them. I cleaned that up and took the main jet down to 137. Now I'm just waiting for the gasket kit to come in so I can put...

Thanks for the valve info. I'm going to try the pipe cleaner and solvent trick tomorrow. So far I've finally got it to idle, however giving it throttle kills it. The valves are .006 and .012 and I've switched out to 137.5 main jet, kept the 30 pilot jet and gone to #2 from the top on needle...