Xtremely pleased

[bigjames79]

I finally got all of my paper work to make the 79F ready for the road. so i headed up to Ada, ok. 160 miles one way.

the first trip the bike has made besides a 5 minute ride around the neighborhood. i had no problems she ran perfect.

to bad TRBIG was busy so we couldnt ride any back roads.

[trbig]

I finally got a chance to work on the bike a bit tonight, and got it firing on all cylinders. It needs some tuning to the carbs still, but the compression is pretty weak.... @ low 120's and one @ 115 that comes up a bit with a squirt of oil in the cylinder. Thinking about taking off these cylinders and rings and swapping them with the ones from the last motor. It had compression in the 150's. I did take it on a quick 25 mile jaunt though to clean out the 200+ miles of running on mostly 2 cylinders. It's getting better than the 16 mpg that it was! lol.

Hopefully we can take a ride next time you're up here.


Tod

[DiverRay]

Tod,
Don't forget, you will have LOWER NUMBERS with '78 pistons, as the dome isn't as high as the newer ones!

[trbig]

Everything on/in this motor is 82 except for the cams. Last motor was had the 82 pistons also. I think I am going to throw back on the 78 cylinders though. And take the rings off those pistons and put them on these to coincide with the cylinders they had been running in. I had a knock somewhere in that motor and I had replaced the crank and conrod bearings within a few thousand miles ago... but it was still knocking and getting worse. I am assuming it is in the wrist pin on one of the pistons... that's why I don't just swap them too. The hone cross-hatch marks are still in the cylinders... so I didn't run it very far.

Tod