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  • #16
    Rain doesn't change it.
    Nathan
    KD9ARL

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    1978 XS1100E
    K&N Filter
    #45 pilot Jet, #137.5 Main Jet
    OEM Exhaust
    ATK Fork Brace
    LED Dash lights
    Ammeter, Oil Pressure, Oil Temp, and Volt Meters

    Green Monster Coils
    SS Brake Lines
    Vision 550 Auto Tensioner

    In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

    Theodore Roosevelt

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    • #17
      Well maybe there is so much oil at the neutral swith that it is the same as rain grounding out the sensor switch!
      Skids (Sid Hansen)

      Down to one 1978 E. Stock air box with K&N filter, 81H pipes and carbs, 8500 feet elevation.

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      • #18
        Hey Nate,

        My vote is the old Mikes XS Green Monster coils! How many miles/years do you have on them? IF it's close to a year or so....then I would really look at swapping out the coils, at least try the old stock ones IF you still have them to rule them out. Run it up and down the block with it missing a bit, and then spritz the headers with a spray of water and see if any of them sizzle LESS than the others. If you find even just ONE, you can't rule out the coils, because when they start getting weak, they can have enough juice to drive the first plug coming off the wire, but then not enough to drive it thru the engine and back thru the 2nd plug....so you can get 1 week cylinder and it's not necessarily a fuel issue! This is a rare occurence, but failing ignition coils are also a bit more rare, but were more common with the MikesXS ones!

        T.C.
        T. C. Gresham
        81SH "Godzilla" . . .1179cc super-rat.
        79SF "The Teacher" . . .basket case!
        History shows again and again,
        How nature points out the folly of men!

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        • #19
          With the brake lightly applied the "chunkiness" is gone.

          All the pipes sizzle, some more-so than others so I figured temps would be in order. All temps taken right up by the first bend. 1-600ish, 2-430ish, 3-240ish, 4-415ish. So 1 and 3 are a out of line.
          Nathan
          KD9ARL

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          1978 XS1100E
          K&N Filter
          #45 pilot Jet, #137.5 Main Jet
          OEM Exhaust
          ATK Fork Brace
          LED Dash lights
          Ammeter, Oil Pressure, Oil Temp, and Volt Meters

          Green Monster Coils
          SS Brake Lines
          Vision 550 Auto Tensioner

          In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

          Theodore Roosevelt

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          • #20
            1 is lean and 4 is rich. You don't have a broken mixture screw in #1 do you. Could be a vacuum leak too.
            Greg

            Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

            ― Albert Einstein

            80 SG Ol' Okie;79 engine & carbs w/pods, 45 pilots, 140 mains, Custom Mac 4 into 2 exhaust, ACCT,XS850 final drive,110/90/19 front tire,TKat fork brace, XS750 140 MPH speedometer, Vetter IV fairing, aftermarket hard bags and trunk, LG high back seat, XJ rear shocks.

            The list changes.

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            • #21
              Cook a pizza on pipes 2&4 while you contemplate things...
              Try your hardest to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.

              You can live to be 100, as long as you give up everything that would make you want to live to be 100!

              Current bikes:
              '06 Suzuki DR650
              *'82 XJ1100 with the 1179 kit. "Mad Maxim"
              '82 XJ1100 Completely stock fixer-upper
              '82 XJ1100 Bagger fixer-upper
              '82 XJ1100 Motor/frame and lots of boxes of parts
              '82 XJ1100 Parts bike
              '81 XS1100 Special
              '81 YZ250
              '80 XS850 Special
              '80 XR100
              *Crashed/Totalled, still own

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