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Howdy all. Changed the oil yesterday, and was presented with small gifts of black plastic detritus (is "detritus" singular or plural? or both? maybe it's detriti? I dunno...) on the sump plate. Took a picture, with the oil plug copper gasket for perspective. Searched the forums and figure...

Hey all. I haven't posted in a long time. Wuz too busy (until COVID slowed things down a bit). Anyway, I was late getting the bike going this year, and it was a grumpy, back-firing, stalling mess on my first couple of rides. Long story short, I just fired it up, and it actually idled. In...

Know a guy who saw my bike, and told me his buddy has a 1974 for sale for $1000. If anybody is interested, I can get more information. If not; well, it didn't take real long to post this.

This forum is an amazing resource. I daresay that without it, my poor bike would suffer. After a fair amount of bumbling on my part, and guidance from the forum, I cleaned the carbs and got them synced. I got the right air filters for CV carbs. I learned that I was, in fact, loosening the...

Two steps forward, and one step back, it would appear. Just finished re-cleaning the carbs and setting the timing. The Hornette now starts fine, and idles well. But the mechanical advance sounds like the old buzzer doorbell I remember as a kid. I followed the manual (Clymer) carefully...

Welp, it's been great getting the bike back on the road. I forgot how much I loved these bikes. The Hornette didn't run perfectly (after sitting for 11 years, this ain't a big surprise) from the get go; but has slowly been getting more ornery. When I first take off, I get a lot of sputters...

5twins explained that on CV carbs, foam is better than pleated, in the pod department. When 5twins speaks, I listen. Also, there are numerous posts on the forum from dudes installing UNI or other foam pods, and experiencing an amazing improvement. So I installed UNIs, and took the bike for a...

Welp, it was one of those days. They happen a lot with me; but that's another story. Suffice it to say, I tend to take the long way around on most projects. Today was no different, in that I made a number of breathtaking errors along the way, which cost me time and effort. But I should...

I dragged my neglected 77D out of the back of the garage after 11 years, and started working on it. My first attempt to get it started several weeks ago ended with a puddle of gas on the floor of my garage. Since then, I cleaned the petcocks and carbs, ordered rebuild kits for the petcocks...

Howdy. I just introduced myself in the Clubhouse. I'm trying to resurrect a mildly modified 77D I restored about 15 years ago. I was a newb (still am, really) and made mistakes. When I cleaned the carbs, I found that I had the wrong type of pilots installed; BS30/90 series, size 45. The...