those are bear to get off for me. i had to loosen my floor boards to get pipes out of the way of clutch cover.

 

I figured while I had things tore down for the tire replacement. The 1k mile 8 year old 402s are leaking at the bead so I'm waiting on getting some American Elites mounted hopefully tomorrow. I figured I'd dig into a few things. Found out why my rear brake was totally marginal. The pads were pretty much stuck on the shims due to corrosion. Pulled the caliper cleaned it all up, and cleaned off the corrosion off the pads and shims.

Pulled the carb off to finally see what jetting I have.

175 Main42 Slow
N65C Needle. Apparently the "Sportster Needle" he mentioned.
Idle air mix is drilled so I have also played with that and current 2 1/4 turns out.

Supertrapp Mufflers have 12 disks installed
Arlen Big Sucker and K&N Air Filter
Stock Ignition
Screaming Chicken Plug Wires
Bike does occasionally sneeze thru the carb when cold.and does cackle backfire on deceleration.

Other than that it's been a super enjoyable bike so far. Other than coming out to a near flat rear tire a few weeks ago. Since I have one last big ride of the season still to do, I wanted to be safe and just replace the tires, just stinks as they still have the whiskers on them.

 

Tires going on tonight will pick up tomorrow. But we rejetted to 180 Main, 48 Slow kept the N65C and will readjust the idle and idle air mix.

 

The numbers you mention in # 20 are the factory "belly" numbers

Your new kick stand bumper needs to be super glued in place

Be interesting to see if that # 48 jet will darken the plugs and/or lower your MPG ( seems like a lot for stock Evo )

JMO

 

The 48 has me hoping I didn't go too big as well, bit at the suggestion of a well known Evo wrench, but with the Air Cleaner and the Supertrapp Slip ons he said it would probably be good. I most likely will have to add 4-6 plates to both sides. Thankfully it's only a 5 min job to pop the bowl off and swap jets of it too big. But it definitely started way easier and didn't blubber, but that's with open pipes.

 

You should throw an ev13 in that bike,you’ll love the performance, and how much more fun to ride,ask me how I know.

 

Cam is on my eventual list. I'll have to look at the EV13s now.


Got my tire on today, the Elite almost looks out if place on the older bike. Lol. But hoping I don't have to pull it back off as I got it without air in it, and the tech that mounted it swears he pumped it up last night. It was a 5 pm closing job, and he's off camping today. So fingers crossed.

 

Are the old Evo bikes rear master reservoir just normally slow to refill the piston of bleeding manually? Took nearly 2.5 hours of mostly waiting as after one cycle of have no brake and it wouldn't pump up, and I wasn't fully stroking it on the bleed. Walk away for 3-5 mins and I'd have a full brake again. I do notice it's a tiny hole in the reservoir to feed the piston down below. I can now see why people opt for tht Twin Cam era master replacement. But even after all that pumping I still only got a very light lavender color to the rear. Something to add to this winters **** list. Can't bleed the fronts on the lift with the way the master is angled with the E- Glide bars.

 

The master may need to be removed and cleaned.You may want to go over it all including the caliper.I rebuilt both my fronts and had good results.

 

I was having some braking issues as well. Brakes started off fine cold but after riding a bit it got worse. Never lost brakes. When the rear tire was off I looked over the calipers and had a bit of difficulty removing the pads from the carrier. They are still pretty tight on the carrier but they do clamp and release the brake rotor. The caliper itself kinda flexes and twists as you apply the brake but does look like it's pushing the piston out evenly. If anything I believe it's the hose from the remote reservoir to the master as just walking away for 5 mins I'd go from nothing to a firm brake. Or it could be the piston is sticking in the master. Definitely adding it to this winters list as once you have it pumped up now it's tock hard.