Setting Idle
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Cruiser
Joined: Oct 2010
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From: Houston Texas
Neat slide show, yours idles better than mine, i have some carb issues and i will resolve them, they are very minor, i may have to take it off and clean it to make me happy.
One question, do you have other than stock cam.
98ULTRA. if i was you i would make a new post on helmets, i dont wear one around town, but you have evidence that if you dint have a helmet on when you ran in to deer i think you would not be here, serious, i would post it.
One question, do you have other than stock cam.
98ULTRA. if i was you i would make a new post on helmets, i dont wear one around town, but you have evidence that if you dint have a helmet on when you ran in to deer i think you would not be here, serious, i would post it.
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From: S.E. NC
It does sound like it is idling a bit low. Do you have a tach? Does the light come on when you turn on the key?
I think there is great variability among working generators. I clean up my gen and measure the brushes once a year during winter project; replace brushes when down to 1/2". I don't know if this makes a difference.
I think there is great variability among working generators. I clean up my gen and measure the brushes once a year during winter project; replace brushes when down to 1/2". I don't know if this makes a difference.
Yes, the gen light works, oil light too. Had too wire it all up. One wire through the frame when I got it. Also, had to do the oil lines, they were on backwards. Glad I checked.
No tach. The idle is a little higher when it warms up. It wasn't warmed up in the vid.
This was the day I got it.
Road Master
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Neat slide show, yours idles better than mine, i have some carb issues and i will resolve them, they are very minor, i may have to take it off and clean it to make me happy.
One question, do you have other than stock cam.
98ULTRA. if i was you i would make a new post on helmets, i dont wear one around town, but you have evidence that if you dint have a helmet on when you ran in to deer i think you would not be here, serious, i would post it.
One question, do you have other than stock cam.
98ULTRA. if i was you i would make a new post on helmets, i dont wear one around town, but you have evidence that if you dint have a helmet on when you ran in to deer i think you would not be here, serious, i would post it.
Unknown about the cam. I'd say stock though. My last Ironhead was supposedly built and had a serious lope at idle.
We have a helmet law in NC. I don't normally wear one when riding in SC. I think I might during deer season from now on though.
Hadn't thought about a helmet thread. I'm sure that would really open a can of worms.
http://s486.photobucket.com/albums/r...stem/OilLines/
Road Master
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I see the oil lines were completely wrong, even running below the frame! This PhotoBucket album contains pics of my oil lines, in case this may be helpful. Somewhere i have word descriptions of these which i could post if needed ...
http://s486.photobucket.com/albums/r...stem/OilLines/
http://s486.photobucket.com/albums/r...stem/OilLines/
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From: Houston Texas
Here is a pic of my Bendix idle adjustment screw done a long, long time ago.
It works well and is easy to change the idle when the engine is cold and then warms up.
No screwdriver needed.
pg
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Cruiser
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From: Houston Texas
Big guy thanks for the awsome photo, please save it on your file for others to see, for real.
Only one problem here, that carb looks nothing like mine, i think i have a Keihin on my 1981, or do i need to research what carb i have using the numbers? remenber i just bought
this bike and am not school on what is suposed to be on it stock.
My carb does nor say Keihin anywhere, but it very much looks like the late model Keihin CV, but it is not the late model.
Only one problem here, that carb looks nothing like mine, i think i have a Keihin on my 1981, or do i need to research what carb i have using the numbers? remenber i just bought
this bike and am not school on what is suposed to be on it stock.
My carb does nor say Keihin anywhere, but it very much looks like the late model Keihin CV, but it is not the late model.
Last edited by Neal Perez; Jan 30, 2011 at 10:42 PM.
Post some pics of the carb. And remind us of the year of your bike..
Last edited by IronMick; Jan 31, 2011 at 08:04 AM.
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Cruiser
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From: Houston Texas
My carb did have on the side AMF HARLEY DAVIDSON, also as near as i can make it out a number 883e se19.
It also has on top what could have been decal numbering in two places, but they are gone and you can only see the area that it was glued on.
Am certain it is the stock carb on a 1981
It also has on top what could have been decal numbering in two places, but they are gone and you can only see the area that it was glued on.
Am certain it is the stock carb on a 1981
Stock carb for 1981 is a Keihin butterfly carb. It may have a code B83F somewhere on the body - this may be where you are reading 883e. It has no VOES port or evaporative port. Stock jets are main 160, slow 68.