Finished - for now !

Sounds like it just needs a bit more fiddling around to get it set. If they are all responding to adjustment, it just takes some time to get it. Keep a fan moving air across the motor when messing around to keep the temp down, a good sized one.
Oh have you re-torqued the engine after the first couple of heat cycles? Make sure you do if you haven't yet, cold of course.

your bike really turned out nice,good job.


leon

Great transformation

Motor Head wrote: Sounds like it just needs a bit more fiddling around to get it set. If they are all responding to adjustment, it just takes some time to get it. Keep a fan moving air across the motor when messing around to keep the temp down, a good sized one.
Oh have you re-torqued the engine after the first couple of heat cycles? Make sure you do if you haven't yet, cold of course.

i removed the carbs and did an on bench set up with the .7mm wire. they were all out by quite a lot. It's amazing how much better it runs. I've also tweaked the pilot screws as it was running rich (the only way i could keep it running before manual carb setup) so hopefully that's it for now
Oh yea i did re-torque the head nuts had to go buy a new socket to reach in to the ones under the frame as it's difficult with the top cover on!!

Did you have a look at the simple vacuum sync tool I posted the link to? That little tool is really sensitive to adjustments, and real cheap.

Motor Head wrote: Did you have a look at the simple vacuum sync tool I posted the link to? That little tool is really sensitive to adjustments, and real cheap.

I'd already bought a set of vacuum gauges but the carbs were so out it was impossible to set up using the gauges.
i'll run it for a bit and then tweak with gauges

Looks great! Paint was worth the money. Flawless.