rebuilt the carbs

[rickmcdougald]

http://www.mousemilk.com/

It's a very good penetrating oil.

'smells like it's based on laquer thinner and machine oil. I've heard that it also contains milk of magnesia.
It sure works on aicraft gas-engine headers!

RLMcD

[rickmcdougald]

Note:
BTW, the Mouse Milk I'm talking about is the penetrating oil. I don't know about their new fuel injector cleaner.

RLMcD

[Grimace]

Rick is correct. One thing that baffles me is that mouse milk is not very slick. Drip some on your fingers sometime, and then rub them together. LPS-3 is slicker, but definately not as good of a penetrating oil.

BTW, I hate waiting on parts. I ordered new petcocks and adapter plates, and have to wait for monday so I can mount them and actually run the bike till it warms up. This weekend I am working on the tank, side covers and seat plastic. I am painting them Polane black. VERY high gloss black. It should go well with the black wheels (when finished) and black kerker. I am kinda going for the all blacked out look.

[Ken Talbot]

Originally posted by Grimace
I never took the butterfly screws out, but should I re-check the torque on those?

If you didn't touch them, you won't need to retorque them, assuming a PO never loosened them either. They're tricky little buggers to get out because of the loctite. You would probably strip at least a couple of them if you didn't vary carefully use an impact driver to knock them loose.

[Grimace]

Gotcha. I have to ask a question. Would it be considered a sin for me to mod this xs alot? As in a single big carb, custom manifold, and a small turbo off of an isuzu impulse? I have drawn up sketches, and I have all the stuff, including a wastegate, with almost no out-of-pocket expenses. This is going to be a winter project for NEXT year. I want to turn some raunchy number for my "street sweeper" project. I am planning of shot peening the rods, and better rod bolts. Is this project possible, or should I choose another bike?

[Ken Talbot]

Now that sounds ambitious. I'm sure there's lots of folks out here who would love to see somebody pul off this kind of a modification. I'm also sure thay'll be asking for pictures and progress updates as you go along. This project is possible!!

BTW - a while back when I was looking for options for rebuilding the bike I started on last year about this time, I came across a set of high performance after-market rods. I'm not sure, but I may have seen this on Ebay. Wiseco big bore kits shold be easy to find too - no sense going all out on a project like this with tired parts....

[Grimace]

Yeah, I was looking into buying a spare engine, and going through it during the process if building the manifold. I want to make a serious street machine for all the crotch rockets out there. And I want it ot look a little ugly