So I will get to the point as fast as I can. I bought another 79 Special, the same exact thing I have. It has 36k miles.Thought it would be cool for my brother to ride. Guy had done many of the mods on this forum, including tranny fix, and fuse fix, new clutch springs and now the clutch is hard as hell and feels like crap....another deal
Put my carbs on it as they need rebuilt and re-jetted. His bike actually ran a lot better on my carbs than mine does, so that will be another post, but carbs i can do in my sleep. Actually this new bike will probably create many new threads. It is amazing how many issues arise when you have the same bikes next to each other comparing 30 years or wear and mis-repair, that's actually why I bought the same exact thing. Wanted to tune both just right.
Drove it home from my brothers for the first ride out of the neighborhood, ran great (we were worried about initial smoking but it seems to have cleared up). Ran smooth. Has clutch issues, but o well. Pull it in, called my brother to tell him how great it ran. Went back out for some reason saw my carb was leaking (leaking petcock and sticky floats.) Floats are easy to unstick but i turned it on just to clean out the excess gas, cranked it on and heard the most horrendous noise. It almost sounded like a bolt broke off inside the engine and began crashing around in the engine. Turned it off, said a little prayer turned it back on, didn't hear it at idle so i revved it a bit and it crashed around and crunched which made me hit the kill switch immediately. I feel sick.
I will be needing help with this bike as we bought it to take a week trip to Charleston, SC around June 12th.
Help.
Thanks
Put my carbs on it as they need rebuilt and re-jetted. His bike actually ran a lot better on my carbs than mine does, so that will be another post, but carbs i can do in my sleep. Actually this new bike will probably create many new threads. It is amazing how many issues arise when you have the same bikes next to each other comparing 30 years or wear and mis-repair, that's actually why I bought the same exact thing. Wanted to tune both just right.
Drove it home from my brothers for the first ride out of the neighborhood, ran great (we were worried about initial smoking but it seems to have cleared up). Ran smooth. Has clutch issues, but o well. Pull it in, called my brother to tell him how great it ran. Went back out for some reason saw my carb was leaking (leaking petcock and sticky floats.) Floats are easy to unstick but i turned it on just to clean out the excess gas, cranked it on and heard the most horrendous noise. It almost sounded like a bolt broke off inside the engine and began crashing around in the engine. Turned it off, said a little prayer turned it back on, didn't hear it at idle so i revved it a bit and it crashed around and crunched which made me hit the kill switch immediately. I feel sick.
I will be needing help with this bike as we bought it to take a week trip to Charleston, SC around June 12th.
Help.
Thanks
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