intermittant noise in front cylinder . . .

got your parts !

josh call the shop gotta ask you a question 954785 7779 no panic any time ill be here till 4.45

Yep he had to get up there twice ! Hes fast to answer .he he

A guy's gotta do what he's gotta do LOL. HRK, it was an unbelieveable 69 degrees this afternoon. This morning it was below freezing. Man! Tomorrow will be even warmer. Think I'll go out in the back yard (tomorrow) with a cold one and catch some rays .

Here's what my new petcock looks like:

Well he must have a strong grip we had a long chat. He he!

Enjoyed talkin' with you, Paul. Yup, I wuz hangin' in there . . .

Enjoyed chatting with ya also josh! Stay warm brother ill have that intake back to ya soon.!

And hopefully I'll be riding by the end of next week. Funny thing . . . this thread started out as an "intermittant noise in the front cylinder" which actually turned out to be a broken tab on the gas tank. The faster I went, the faster the tank rattled against the backbone, then sometimes it would stop and then start rattling again. We thought it might be bad tappets. This lead to the discovery that I really did have bad tappets which I replaced with a kit. Went for a ride, and . . . the rattling persisted. That was an Oh, Shit moment. I finally wised up and found the problem. Then I replaced the fuel tank & petcock. Now the intake manifold, spacer & CV adaptor are being ported by BP. When I took the carb apart and cleaned it, I discovered that the 3 air cleaner allen bolts that attached the air cleaner base plate to the carb had crushed the air filter. Replaced them with flat head machine screws so now the new 4" air filter doesn't get crushed which before had allowed a small amount of air to flow unfiltered into the combustion chambers. Man.

$650 later I'm wondering if I'll find anything else? Little by little, this motorcycle is slowly shaping up .

Thanks again, Paul. I have a feeling the work you did on the intake will improve a lot of things.

Trying to load a pic of your manifold .made ya a new adapter that the hole is now on center the other one was off by an 1/8.

got it!

Yeah,clean...Do you have Josh's flange to spigot adapter?? ...or is that what we're looking through??...

Ah thats what your looking through. Its a press in adapter just like the one he had .the old ones on the bench to the right in the pic .glad you could not notice it lol. The old one was not centric at all.

My pleasure hrk had helped me out .with parts and a manifold in the past and now im paying it forward helping josh .its just the correct thing to do .and josh needs all the help he can get .brother biker has gone threw hell with that motor .its a racer biker thing for me .just brought up that way .and my way of thinling you always get it back 10 full

I can see now that you told me... she blends in now...nice work

Ya you aint to bad yourself now stop posting on the forum about it we will loose are ass hole status . I worked hard on that