tomykoz
"what dont kill me makes me stronger"
honda questions .....so please help and bare with me until i get my shadow running and sold so i can buy a nice xs650....this thing is a rats nest of burried parts and wires...honda got nerve calling it a motorcycle!...anyway
had it running at idle..give it throttle and it would die ....when running not much pressure blowing out of front cylinder pipe(the one with the bad plug wire)...so i figured tear down time...gonna clean carbs and put fresh wires and plugs
QUESTIONS:
#1-....throttle only had one cable going to carb ..the pull cable was good the return cable was missing......
my question..does it need the return cable or can i just use the one?
#2-also...found brittle plug wires.....can i just get a universal auto parts wire set and trim them to fit....or do i gotta buy an exact high priced honda set?
gas was old...i drained it all out and flushed carbs and cleaned jets....bowls were spotless so im guessing just old gas...guy i bought it from didnt put stabil in gas over winter and stopped riding it in august of last year.....and them dummies at honda got 4 plugs in this vtwin and 2 of them need a thin wall socket to come out.....just shoot me.....honda tool kit was missing
as always thanks for any help in getting this(as 5twins puts it " lazyboy on wheels") going!!!!
had it running at idle..give it throttle and it would die ....when running not much pressure blowing out of front cylinder pipe(the one with the bad plug wire)...so i figured tear down time...gonna clean carbs and put fresh wires and plugs
QUESTIONS:
#1-....throttle only had one cable going to carb ..the pull cable was good the return cable was missing......
my question..does it need the return cable or can i just use the one?
#2-also...found brittle plug wires.....can i just get a universal auto parts wire set and trim them to fit....or do i gotta buy an exact high priced honda set?
gas was old...i drained it all out and flushed carbs and cleaned jets....bowls were spotless so im guessing just old gas...guy i bought it from didnt put stabil in gas over winter and stopped riding it in august of last year.....and them dummies at honda got 4 plugs in this vtwin and 2 of them need a thin wall socket to come out.....just shoot me.....honda tool kit was missing
as always thanks for any help in getting this(as 5twins puts it " lazyboy on wheels") going!!!!
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