Throttle and idle question(s)...
#21
09-17-2017, 05:12 PM
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Yes, the new cables took care of the slop. The old idle cable was about an inch longer than the new one and the cable housing was the same though. Weird.
Yes, that's what I was letting that rizzo turd realize, I can tune it to idle quite well by ear, and if I idle it (by ear or by tach/rpm on my timing light) at what you have in the video, it's where it coughs really badly if I barely tough the throttle, but when I idle it around 700 or 750, it'll be okay.
Yes, been over to that site checking things already, heh.
Yes, that's what I was letting that rizzo turd realize, I can tune it to idle quite well by ear, and if I idle it (by ear or by tach/rpm on my timing light) at what you have in the video, it's where it coughs really badly if I barely tough the throttle, but when I idle it around 700 or 750, it'll be okay.
Yes, been over to that site checking things already, heh.
The cheapo-deluxe CV I bought before this one (Chinese made I believe since all the screws on it were metric, unlike on my original and this new one) ran exactly the same way. Had to idle the bike low to stop the gawdawful cough when trying to turn the throttle.
Maybe one day if I can get out of this debt, I'll try a s&s.
Maybe one day if I can get out of this debt, I'll try a s&s.
Can you put a vid up on YouTube showing this happening?
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09-17-2017, 05:24 PM
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I do think I should also say though, that other than that particular problem(?) the bike runs smooth as silk and has all the ***** it needs. I even had it up to 102 the other day at about 2/3 throttle. Not a hiccup, cough, sputter, wobble, shake, nothing. Ran nice and smooth and sounded damn good, *and* at normal speeds (60 mph and lower in the correct gears) it's getting ~48 mpg at the moment.
Also, all intake gaskets are new, everything on it to do with the carb/intake is new *except* the VOES. Hmmm...I forgot about that thing until just now. Could one of those smallish hoses to that thing be leaking and cause this problem? Maybe timing is off?
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09-20-2017, 11:23 AM
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Okay, tried to make video's...my tracfone sucked and sound was garbage, and my good camera was a PITA to hold and made the videos *huge* in file size (20 seconds was 88MB! I have satellite internet and have a capped amount of GB's I can use per month before it drops me to dial-up speeds, so I can't really go uploading and downloading videos of that size whenever I like, unfortunately).
One thing did happen though, When I raised the rpm's back up to 1000, I messed with the throttle and only once got the dreaded super-cough (sounds like a .22 going off). Then got the bike on the road and it hasn't done it again.
I was presuming that it *would* be the same even after the new cables were installed, and that's why I was worried. So, it seems the cables really were the culprit (at least for the time being). I'll give it a couple of weeks and see what happens and come back if anything new rears its ugly head.
One thing did happen though, When I raised the rpm's back up to 1000, I messed with the throttle and only once got the dreaded super-cough (sounds like a .22 going off). Then got the bike on the road and it hasn't done it again.
I was presuming that it *would* be the same even after the new cables were installed, and that's why I was worried. So, it seems the cables really were the culprit (at least for the time being). I'll give it a couple of weeks and see what happens and come back if anything new rears its ugly head.
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