Browsed for years, thought I'd sign up.

You do realise that everyone here now has full access to a huge file of your photos and stuff? Nice cat!

Mc Tavish wrote: You do realise that everyone here now has full access to a huge file of your photos and stuff? Nice cat!

Of course!

That Flickr account is for photos posted on various forums, nothing more. They are all public photos with no worries about people viewing them, like I said, they were posted publicly already anyway (I've been on various forums for many years. That was the only reason I use Flickr, Postimage.org etc.

That cat is named "Stink" :laugh: , she is very sweet, but hates other cats with a passion. She was helping me work on a BMX bike that day, of course she mostly rolled around in the dirt. She is not quite as little now though.

Cool mate.

Make sure you have a complete link that looks like the one in this screen shot. If you hit backspace it will remove items and it won’t be formatted correct. You can manually add them if you delete them...

ALso don’t add emojis from your keypad. Only use the items supplied in the site provided edit.

Mikaw wrote: Make sure you have a complete link that looks like the one in this screen shot. If you hit backspace it will remove items and it won’t be formatted correct. You can manually add them if you delete them...

ALso don’t add emojis from your keypad. Only use the items supplied in the site provided edit.

Thanks. Next photos I'll see if I can do them properly.

I only ever use the forums smilies on all forums, as I hate using a phone and prefer typing on a desktop computer, so should be good there I hope.

Guess I’ll test posting photos now. If it doesn't work, I'll see if I can edit the post until they do. Edit: that seemed to work fine!

Gave one carb a cleaning to get the bulk of the grime out of it, but probably go over it again yet. I didn’t even want to attempt taking off the bowl gaskets “yet”. Working on the second one now.

Yep pictures posted.

I scrape of the bulk of the gaskets and then I have a large chunk of tool steel that is very flat. I place sand paper on the steel and with even pressure on the bowl I gently sand down the remaining gasket material. Checking often to make sure I'm only removing the gasket and returning the surface to flat and true

No real update, been busy and have not done much else.

Checked compression with the rental Autozone tester and a cheap one I bought on ebay. Cylinders 2-3-4 show about 155 or so (over 150), cylinder -1 was about 118 at first, the highest I seen with a little WD in it was 135, so should run and I think cylinder -1 will come up as the engine actually runs for a bit. That said, compression seems reasonably okay. This was tested with repeated kicking of the kick starter, no carbs attached.

I did buy a Hiflo oil filter and a gallon of Shell Rotella 15w-40, I hope the gallon is enough, but it seems pretty close to what the specs call for, guess I’ll find out once I start to add the oil. I should also add that I hope the oil filter is correct, it seemed to be for this bike model, though I have not pulled the old filter to compare.

Not sure when I will get to this, but hopefully within the next couple months. Perhaps I’ll post this in the project section of the forum where I can update periodically rather than in the new member section.

I did also do some light cleaning of the frame / engine etc., so it isn't as dirty while tinkering with it, although have not done much yet. Just didn't want more chance of stuff getting into the intake or cylinders with the carbs off / the plugs out.