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ok, so I have had my bike for about a week. It is an '80 special with 47k miles...so far, what I have learned...
1...hazards dont work, and it does not have auto canceling turn signals....or that does not work either....frankly, I can deal with this.
2...first carb has some leakage. not alot, and only that one carb. I do the "petcock off" fix for that so far...I know I need to remove carbs and clean them...and may also have octopus problems. I dotn mind pulling and cleaning carbs. did it on a Virago 750 and it was a pain. What I dont want to get stuck doing is trying to synch and adjust carbs, because I dont know how....YET.
3...runs like crap when it gets wet...diagnosed that to a bad boot/spark plug wire connection. Plan to replace coils and wires this winter if money does not allow me to do it sooner.
4...Gas tank looks kind of yucky inside, but more like it has varnish, not really rust spots. I would like to replace it...can new (to me) tanks be found or do I need to do the sealant thing?
All in all the bike runs pretty good for something with 47k miles and 27 years old. I think that I will change oil to rotella with some lucas in it. prob need to check the air filter. it has pretty new plugs, but I might go to Bosch Platinums...it helped in the Virago.
What else should I do? Should I do the carbs ASAP? or do you think that it is OK to wait till winter? How hard is the adjustment and synch if you dont have special synch gauges etc?
1...hazards dont work, and it does not have auto canceling turn signals....or that does not work either....frankly, I can deal with this.
2...first carb has some leakage. not alot, and only that one carb. I do the "petcock off" fix for that so far...I know I need to remove carbs and clean them...and may also have octopus problems. I dotn mind pulling and cleaning carbs. did it on a Virago 750 and it was a pain. What I dont want to get stuck doing is trying to synch and adjust carbs, because I dont know how....YET.
3...runs like crap when it gets wet...diagnosed that to a bad boot/spark plug wire connection. Plan to replace coils and wires this winter if money does not allow me to do it sooner.
4...Gas tank looks kind of yucky inside, but more like it has varnish, not really rust spots. I would like to replace it...can new (to me) tanks be found or do I need to do the sealant thing?
All in all the bike runs pretty good for something with 47k miles and 27 years old. I think that I will change oil to rotella with some lucas in it. prob need to check the air filter. it has pretty new plugs, but I might go to Bosch Platinums...it helped in the Virago.
What else should I do? Should I do the carbs ASAP? or do you think that it is OK to wait till winter? How hard is the adjustment and synch if you dont have special synch gauges etc?
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