Changed the shock fluid.
And everything went smoothly. Meet the nice Wolters'. Glenn had installed a 7th gear so that made the long trip much more tolerable plus other nice accessories. Thanks Glenn!Sunday I officially made the transition from “come for the bike” to “stay for the people”.
Helped a fellow COGger load the “Blue Moo” onto a truck and watched it head off to the green pastures of Texas.
Now to farkle my new(to me) Nighthawk and make it my own. View attachment 32687
Dang Ted.....went to look and I have a left. SorryArghhh!
Believe it or not, the mirror fell off when I was doing a check ride.
Does anybody have a spare right hand mirror?
Need it ASAP.
Ride safe, Ted
Thanks for trying...
Hopefully someone has a right.
Ride safe, Ted
PS: Helpppppp
I think it's great what you are doing. What you think is your own business Guy.
Didn’t work on the whole bike, but just a spare set of carbs I picked up several years ago. Good price and they appear to be in good shape with all the correct parts/jets and the like. Wrestled with the thought of installing overflow tubes back then, but kept putting it off. Finally decided to bite the bullet and just do it a week or so ago. It ain’t rocket science, but you do have to pay attention to what you’re doing to avoid screwing things up.
Basically followed the scheme others have done, drilling through the existing boss, then step drilling the hole to provide a good solid stop. I went ahead and tinned the 1/8” dia. brass tubing with a silver alloy solder to insure a good tight fit, but also treated the bottom 1/8” or so of the tube with POR15 tank sealer before pressing it into place. Being a belt and suspenders type, I did this to insure a good seal and to minimize the possibility of any leakage. If anything is going to stand up against the ethanol gas, it should be the POR15 concoction. The depth of the step and tube lengths were dimensioned so the end of the tubes sit 8mm above the mating surface of the bowl once they were pressed into place. Used a Pit Posse float bowl gauge to insure the proper height.
Arbitrary setting shown, NOT the one I used.
After allowing the sealant to cure for a couple of days, I reinstalled the bowls on the carbs earlier today, then filled them with gas. We’re in the leak testing mode right now and they’ll sit through this for another couple of days before putting them to use. R&Ring carbs on the Connie is not my most favorite thing to do, but might as well get it done.
I actually like CV carbs. Easy to modulate throttle inputs. I've got enough to worry about on the street without having to think about my right hand.Got it out, started it up and went for a 25 mile ride, I miss that carbed smoothness and noise of the motor and shifting and riding by just looking at the tach and hearing the motor.
If I might ask: whose EFI?I'll try to take a couple later, but Free Bird is just an 06 painted white by previous owner (Dennis Bird) that has a Barney 99 fuel tank. Otherwise she appears stock. Her only real upgrade is efi.
I have frames. w/titlesI guess I should add, I bought the wrecked 01 from Dan that was listed in the classified section up in Milwaukee. It may live again with a different frame. Settle down Rev.
Yes, that was my underfstanding too. Some of the euro bikes also had the heated carbs to prevent carb icing...... kinda the same effect as the carb heat we have on our planes, but with a different technique.Believe the extenders came with the euro bikes?
Larry buck use to make and sell a dash shelf, makes it easier to mount the important farkles. I don't know if he still does
ThanksExtremely nice looking ride. Very nice mod list. Looks like you got pipes also. Great color.
Dean
I’ve got a parts bike, a zx1000 cylinder head with cams and 96 gpz1100 carbs 36mm carbs. All the carb boots to make them fit properly. A 7th gear unit as well. Plan on building a larger displacement, higher compression engine with custom ground cams although these mods I’ve recently done including the free power mod and foam in the airbox have really woke this thing up. If you can put the effort into adjusting the cam timing it really helps throttle response. Thanks to sisf and all his development over the years of course. Wish I could support his business but he doesn’t offer much for the c10 anymore. My next mod though will be fitting a 95 jeep Cherokee led headlight with angel eye into the headlight bezel And making a custom light to try to bring the look of the bike more up to date.Extremely nice looking ride. Very nice mod list. Looks like you got pipes also. Great color.
Dean
So I bought the cylinder head because it had the cams. It’s the same design as the gtr/zg just has different mounting holes. You have to modify it to make it fit. I likely won’t use it on this bike. I’m using the 96 gpz 36 mm carbs instead of the zx1000 carbs because the airbox from the gpz1100 doesn’t have ram air and the bikes are closer in weight overall so jetting them should be easier. They come with stiffer slide springs and I’m assuming the main jets will almost be spot on. Pilots are the same. The washers on the clutch springs just add a little pressure on the springs so the clutch is less likely to slip. You could get the same or better results buying heavy duty clutch springs. I was just in there inspecting the star spring and figured why not.Hello
I love all these changes, I have more questions if you don’t mind .
The ZX1000 cylinder head fits without modification on the GTR 1000 engine ?
Why the '96 camshafts ?
What are the three washers added to the clutch ?
Bernard
How did you do it? I used a degree wheel on the crank. Set the timing to the normal position. Removed the bolts, from the cam gear, locked it in place, then used a degree wheel on the crank and spun the engine in reverse 14 degrees. Then I installed the adjustable gear and tighten it down.Merci pour vos explications, je trouve que 7° d'avance sur l'échappement c'est beaucoup, j'ai modifié le mien à 3,5° et je trouve que c'est pas mal, mais je ne sais pas tout aussi bien
How about more pics of the headlight?Didny exactly do it today but a 5x7 7x6 headlight can be wedged inside the oem light View attachment 35395
I wonder how you marked it and got the bolt holes lined up perfectly center. I would go the full 7 degreePrendre le pignon d'échappement comme modèle à percer, le placer sous le pignon à percer maintenu par une collerette Serflex avec les dents alignées.
tournez-le (en bas).
2,52 mm autour de la circonférence dans le sens des aiguilles d'une montre et serrez le collier.
2,52 mm correspond à 3,5° sur le bord du pignon
Suis-je clair, le
No smokeNothing really technical today. Just hooked up the trailer and picked up load of concrete pavers to make a small patio for a little wood burning patio fire pit - similar to:
Only 81 deg. today, so what's wrong with THIS picture?
the projection of shadows is multidirectionalNothing really technical today. Just hooked up the trailer and picked up load of concrete pavers to make a small patio for a little wood burning patio fire pit - similar to:
Only 81 deg. today, so what's wrong with THIS picture?