Wilsons Sandbox

> > I will winterize my bike properly... > I will winterize my bike properly... > I will winterize my bike properly... > I will winterize my bike properly... > I will winterize my bike properly.. > I will winterize my bike properly.. > I will winterize my bike properly.. > I will winterize my bike properly.. > I will winterize my bike properly.. > I will winterize my bike properly.. > ... 100 times > > OK, so I learned my lesson by not winterizing properly (at all). > When I tried to start my bike up for the season it would only run > fully choked and it was backfiring quite a bit with any bump of the > throttle, it was basically unridable and I was afraid to even try to > let it run to try and clear out the carb with a mixture of fresh gas > and Sea Foam. > > I wound up changing out the gas, pulling the carb off, taking it > apart and giving it a thorough cleaning, I also drilled the lean jet > plug and adjusted that out one full turn while I had the carb off. > In addition, I changed the spark plug. > > After I got everything back together, it started right up and is > running better than it ever has... I think making it a bit richer > helped out quite a bit. > > I did have one other unrelated issue though. Once it had been > running for a while coolant started pissin out on the ground. WHen I > checked it I found a pine hole in the resevoir. Upon inspection this > looks to be a factory defect as the plastic resevoir had what looked > like an air bubble in it. I have another resevoir on order, but for > a temporary fix I put a screw in it and surrounded the outside of the > screw with QuickSteel. Seems to be holding for now. > > Happy riding... > > Peter > >