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Well I'm proud to announce today was my first official motorcycle ride! just over 10 miles! ( I live in the county, so that was the closest gas station)
lets see here, i left everyone at the gas tank, i think.. well i bought the yamaha tank rejuvination kit from the dealer.. only cost 15 bucks.. acid rinsed the tank, and neutralized it, supposedly this also coats it.. ( WHAT A PAIN IN THE A$$) have a radiator shop do it if you can spare the few bucks more! so after many a leaks, I mounted it all up, now the petcocks leak.. I built little gaskets out of neoprene and now they are good to go..
My Air box was flooded and leaking (pouring actually) so i drained, and took off the carbs again, adjusted the floats down a bit, and re assembled.. now the fuel line from the inline filters were leaking... hose clamps fixed that.. so.. i go to take my first ride and i just cant get it to take off in 2nd... my step dad goes for it and after a bit, he gets it going. He comes back says its a little hard but try it, i get on and literally cant get it again.. so we go to push it and realise the front caliper has siezed!..
okay so we took the caliper off, took out the pads and pumped the piston out, it was clean of burs and such.. still seems very hard to get the piston to go back in.. I think there is something still wrong with it. any suggestions?
Oh one more thing, my idle seems pretty high, whick way (clockwise, or counterclockwise) would slow that down? I'm guessing this is the idle screws? but i got it to idle pretty well after pulling the choke open a bit.
Well after murphy and his ugly head, it was still a successful day ending with my first trip to the gas station with a nice country sunset!
P.S. Dogs suck... im very glad i read what to do in the BMV motorcycle manual before hand. Also for those who mentioned it, i'm trying to get into a walk in at the ABATE class thursday.
Well I'm proud to announce today was my first official motorcycle ride! just over 10 miles! ( I live in the county, so that was the closest gas station)
lets see here, i left everyone at the gas tank, i think.. well i bought the yamaha tank rejuvination kit from the dealer.. only cost 15 bucks.. acid rinsed the tank, and neutralized it, supposedly this also coats it.. ( WHAT A PAIN IN THE A$$) have a radiator shop do it if you can spare the few bucks more! so after many a leaks, I mounted it all up, now the petcocks leak.. I built little gaskets out of neoprene and now they are good to go..
My Air box was flooded and leaking (pouring actually) so i drained, and took off the carbs again, adjusted the floats down a bit, and re assembled.. now the fuel line from the inline filters were leaking... hose clamps fixed that.. so.. i go to take my first ride and i just cant get it to take off in 2nd... my step dad goes for it and after a bit, he gets it going. He comes back says its a little hard but try it, i get on and literally cant get it again.. so we go to push it and realise the front caliper has siezed!..
okay so we took the caliper off, took out the pads and pumped the piston out, it was clean of burs and such.. still seems very hard to get the piston to go back in.. I think there is something still wrong with it. any suggestions?
Oh one more thing, my idle seems pretty high, whick way (clockwise, or counterclockwise) would slow that down? I'm guessing this is the idle screws? but i got it to idle pretty well after pulling the choke open a bit.
Well after murphy and his ugly head, it was still a successful day ending with my first trip to the gas station with a nice country sunset!
P.S. Dogs suck... im very glad i read what to do in the BMV motorcycle manual before hand. Also for those who mentioned it, i'm trying to get into a walk in at the ABATE class thursday.
T.C.
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