Today, first a joke.
A little boy was watching a blacksmith making horseshoes, the boy moved closer to the pile of horseshoes, curious, and the blacksmith said " careful they're hot."
Pretty soon the boy picked up a horseshoe and quickly threw it down. The blacksmith said " burned you didn't it?"
The boy replied "No!, it just doesn't take me long to look at a horseshoe!"
I am like that boy, offered good advice that I chose to ignore.
Last week when I started my bike the throttle was hanging up, revving too high and then slowly coming down. To try and remedy that I worked on two things today.
The first thing was easiest. Weeks earlier while working on my bike I had all the cables and wires loose. I knew I didn't have some of the cables ( including the throttle) routed properly but I was just guessing where they were supposed to be. Well I found a diagram in a factory assembly manual. So I pulled the gas tank and got my cables in order.
Then I started working on the advance rod. Being advised that they get gummed up and hang up in the advance position.
With 5Twins warning ringing in my ears " Don't remove the E clips that hold the advance weights unless you have spares because they are prone to break."
Well I thought that everything needed a good cleaning so...
Ha! I said to myself, maybe a rookie might break one, not somebody careful like me. SNAP! Crap!
So a run the the hardware store tomorrow, hope they have them or I will have to order them online. Which brings up a question. Is there some special technique for R+R ing those clips? Seriously?
Anyway, once I removed the weights and springs you could see rust on the pivot shafts and when I pulled the advance rod out you could see there wasn't a speck of grease where the bearings are , also the advance rod had old gummy, sticky grease on it so I'm glad I got in here.
So I cleaned everything up and greased the pivot shafts, cleaned and oiled the springs, filled the bearing areas on both sides with moly grease and reassembled.
So now I just have to wrangle up some E clips and finish this. Unfortunately until I get them I can't start the bike to see if my fix worked.
Well there is always cleaning and polishing. Hey gggGary, look what came in the old mail box today! I can't wait to try them!
Until next time. Bob