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Trailboss wrote:
Quote:Trailboss wrote:Quote:Blue I will copy and paste your story to fat head and ask his thoughts, then I will delete Menace’s crap before Admin fronts upWill await F/H’s thought and paste it here
TB
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Ok my little brother NN
Firstly V force 3 always make it richer through the bottom to mid, he has
gone 2 pilots smaller than standard already, but may need to lean it more. I
need to know the air/fuel screw turns, what size pilot. The float needle
might look good but thats not to say that it isn’t sealing 100% of the time.
We do get bikes where the needle looks good, we lower the float level & it
still leaks.
One very random thing is the crank seal on the gearbox side. Is it leaking &
sucking gearbox oil into the bottom end. It’s not very common but it can
happen.
How many k’s has the bike done? Has it had any top end or bottom end
repairs? Has this problem just started or is it on going from new?On another note. We need to service your shock, it hasn’t been done & I
think it will be pretty shitty. When you’ve got a free day come on down to
Fatbat land, we’ll do a Shock Service article & eat some hot english
mustard.Oh also nearly forgot, good luck at Port Macquarie pny express this weekend.
I’d love to come up & support you but the work never stops.Fat Head, your big Brother
Thanks Fathead
Thanks heaps T/B and Mr Fathead.
*I know the bike is a little rich on the transition from idle jet to needle taper, this will be easily remidied with changing back to my summer needle, and Fathead is right the V3s do make it run richer, nice call.
Idle air screw is at 1 and 3/4 turns off seated, from memory I am currently running a #42 pilot jet, mostly idles like a sewing machine, absolutely smooth as for a smoker, that is unless it has just stopped that is, but if it stops it just stops dead no attempt to idle, just dead.*Had a complete engine overhaul bottom end, rod, pin, big end, top end, mains and seals by Moorooka yamaha maybe twenty five hours ago, and going to tear down top end in next 2 months and freshen up, not using any gearbox oil I can discern, and doesn’t have an acrid smell like when they do, but will recheck again anyway.
* As the man said sometimes the needle and seat appearance is confusing has happened to me before, so will get a carburettor overhaul kit for it so I can replace the needle and seat at least, but how the hell do you remove the seat on these model Keihens?
*Not sure how many K’s the bike has done maybe 300hrs from new as the cases and previous footpegs indicated light to moderate use for 4 years, but I see where he is going with this re electrics, lights and indicators run strong and starts first kick even cold.
*Not sure if this problem has been there for a while, bike has done it since I’ve owned it, and I am sure the previous owner wouldn’t have admitted to me if it had had an intermitent issue like this, if he even noticed as he was more of a firetrail/MX WOT bloke.
* Hot english mustard sounds good :laugh: but my shock was recently serviced and I just fitted a new spring last weekend to accomodate my current weight, so thanks for the offer very decent of you but I must decline as the travel will eat into my sleeping and bludging time…………………. Oh I understand now he meant you T/B!! my bad
A bit of food for thought there, I am leaning towards needle and seat ATM or the TPS interfering, Thanks heaps T/B and F/H
Bruce
chris72a wrote:
Quote:Moto wrote:Quote:I do think bike shops charge a lot of money for what seems to be little work. But then again, as others have said the revenue raised out of the mechanics time isn’t just paying his salary and the rest is profit.Rent for somewhere like Newcastle KTM is probably around $4K a month, plus insurances, public liablity, heating, power, salaries for the other guys that are ‘overheads’.
Considering they actually make very little on the sale of a new bike they have to makes their money somewhere. Most of this comes from parts and servicing. Some bike shop owners do quite well out of it, but that’s why you run your own business. I wouldn’t run a bike shop for $30K a year so all of you bludgers can have cheap servicing for your hobby.
I don’t like paying the money just like the next guy but I understand why it is like it is.
Glad you said that MOTO, I was getting all fired up, don’t forget, super, workers comp, insurance, sick and annual leave benefits, tea, coffee, electricity, water, staff amenities, tax, GST, accountancy fees, I could go on and on, when you have your own business their is a hell of a lot of expenses just to keep the doors open and that’s before you pay staff or get your get your new boat/car/bike, why do people think that because you have your own business you must be rich, I know I could certainly go and get a full time job and make more money but that’s not why I chose to have my own business.
Chris do your customers value your service? do you have a repeat and loyal business base, if you answer yes you will be right and are doing right.
I have a second part time occupation that is more of a hobby consulting in a specialist field to a local family concern who have a beaut outlook on the way they run their service and staff, they also bring their suppliers and contractors along for the ride, they also make a very good living from it, I am proud to be associated with them and that is why I continue to service their needs when I changed my Career goals.
Have you read the Toyota way of Business? excellent read with many good approachs to doing well and standing head and shoulders above the rest in reputation, and it doesn’t just apply to the manufacturing side, but to all with a wholistic view of what you do, and the rewards should be commerserate with the effort (these rewards are not measured just financially either).Bruce C.
Moto wrote:
Quote:I wouldn’t kick her out of bed
I wouldn’t know what to do with her in bed :unsure: , and I’m pretty sure she wouldn’t get into bed with me, sure as hell know I wouldn’t if I was her.
Talented Lady though.
BC
I agree Moto, but sometimes it seems there are more sharks in the waters of Motocycling than Snapper, the few i know who are passionate about the business they are in have a loyal band of followers, but because they are not flashy seem to miss out on the bigger slice of the pie. All businesses are only as good as the last job or sale they made, and everyone of them needs to realise that word of mouth is extremely effective.
For instance when I had my 2 Cr250s, I went to a large chain dealership needing parts to get one of the CRs’ going and with a Lazy 20K in my pocket a portion of the profit after a property sale that SWMBO hadn’t earmarker yet, I had my eye on two bikes if a good deal was offered I would have bought it on the spot. The flashy salesdude approached judging me in my “day off” clothes and I expressed interest in a CRF450X (first ones out) he flat out wouldn’t negoitate, and was downright condescending and full of hype. He walked away from me to serve another flashier looking couple in the middle of the speil. Didn’t even buy the parts off them and haven’t been back, he actualy did me a big favour cause i poured that money back into my Home instead and bought a 4 yr old KTM300 instead, which i do believe to this day was a better bike.
Now the mechanical workshop relies on the out front blokes to do their job, and vice versa, it is a team effort, and I for one will fully support any business that supports it’s staff and their customers. IMHO out of the 6-7 local shops within a 120klm radius only one is worthy of my business, he is a good man who has passion and makes a quid without ripping the guts out of one-off clients, unfortunately the rest have novelty value only to I.Bruce C.
I once had an RZ350 cafe racer for a work bike that I played with, flatslides, pods, handmade chambers, cut pistons, trick reeds, squish band modded heads pommie ignition, clipons, digital dash, the works, was a little fire breather, but docile as around town, Loved that little lady. Started stopping on me every now and then, so i narrowed it down to the spark, but where in the massive loom was it? so one day i took it into my local yamaha dealer (whom I’d know personally for years from bike rallies and the such) and left it there telling him what I had eliminated, got a phone call 3 weeks later was ready to go, was the fuel system, got a mate to dink me the 120 klicks into town late friday arvo after work, and picked it up, they had replaced the carbs, pods and exhausts with standard items and charged me lots, said it was right to go, a bit disappointed in my own ability I paid up and rode out.. it stopped again at the driveway leaving and wouldn’t start exactly the same problem. I was pissed badly, so they promised me my bits back and gave me half my money back. I rang an auto electrician I used to ride with and he came and picked it up bike and called me the following monday and left a message it was a goer, had a broken wire in the loom $40 would cover it.
I hassled the dealer never got me couple of $k worth of bits back, and to add insult to injury the dealer did the dirty on one of me best mates with his wife and split them up. I went back in finally early this year as I relly needed some yamaha bits to ride the next day and the mongrel was still grinning his shiteating smirk, except now he’s got 6 houses and two dealerships and runs a race team. I still felt like smacking him around a little bit and he did a disappearing act real quick when he realised it was I, and left in his new clubby commodore, left his now grown son to deal with me, I was a nice bloke to him, can’t help who his old man is.Now I know most aren’t like him, but he’s the one who we may judge many others upon, I got him back though once, saw him on the road undercut him on a corner and sent him into the gravel on his new 1200 yamaha, mongrel lived though.
BC
Ta Boony but probably not, cause on a smoker with that issue you’ll get a massive amount of revs, loop out if moving or just take off into the scrub, (or accelerate at 3000000 gazelles hit the fence in your front yard on your heavily modded shmick cafe racer RZ350 in front of your best mate and wife as they laugh their heads off at you :blush: ), they don’t tend to bog, and this thing doesn’t bog, can loft to vert in the back yard off idle circuit at walking pace, is very very responsive. However that does give me an idea about the throttle position sensor attached to the carb, not all smokers have them, and it’s my first keihin with one so I don’t completely understand them yet so may have to do some internet digging on their exact function.
Bruce C.
edit- too slow Mr Rat beat me, bloody fast rodent he is too.
Thanks lads
TB mucho appreciated, hopefully he’ll pinpoint it, tearing the few follicles I have left out over this one.
KTMrat the force V3s are in a new special cage that only they make, but it was my initial thoughts after the CDI/coil issue.
Ollie repacked the silencer thinking maybe it was the culprit, no diff.
Husky610 Maybe, I haven’t put a meter on it yet, but it starts so easy and a fat blue spark is evident on field testing, a possibility though.
Menace you’re a clown, but fellow Bozo institute graduate I totally understand, and I woulda done the same to you, unfortunately you’re from mechico so I’ll talk slowly for you in a colour you will understand, I have just greased my linkages, they are the funny things that give me a true rising rate rear suspension.
Boony the reeds are the closest thing we have to valves, and mine are a poly resin double VV arrangement with carbon fibre petals and they are a good thing to have in a smoker, but bad as in a stroker.
Keep it coming lads all input is fresh and with the combined brainpower of our brethren bulls we will fix it.
Bruce C.
Ecks, it’s always going to be a game of odds, you can ride on the edge for years and get away with it, then just be cruising along and WHAMMO I try to ride well ahead of myself and limit the whammo bt, but it still happens and as TB said S/T is the one that gets me.
Give your mate a bit of curry, make a joke of it, otherwise you’ll end up walking away from it for too long, which I did after that tenacious bitch fear leapt onto my shoulder.
He’ll be right it’s only a few broken ribs and a collarbone, he will have a decent bike story to tell the grandkids, as will you.
Bruce
xy-transit wrote:
Quote:now just a thought i had and wanted to ask.With the rate alloy can grow and shrink with temperature changes.
i know on a rim it would be minimal.
however if there was a 1/4 mm on each spoke, it could mean up to 9mm difference over 36 spokes? could it not?
but if it was asembled and tightened / tuned at ( warm workshop temp ) and then ridden in the morning maybe considerably cooler/ cold, as Fez did,
could this cause any spokes that were borderline/ just tight enough to be loose?[/i][/size]
But it would not be 9mm acumulatively as the spokes are arranged in such a way as the max in the shrinkage scenario you are talking abou would be .5mm across the wheel at any given point, and if tensioned correctly would not be noticeable, except as rub on the crossovers maybe.
Good thinking though.
BC
Trailboss wrote:
Quote:
Rock Hopping and PDS
a match made in heaven………….Can leap tall rocks in a single bound, KTM man away………
…….maybe little help someone..:unsure:BC
Moto wrote:
Quote:It’s inspired me to see if I can MTK. I might also check to see if they have DEKNAPS as a backup option :laugh:Yep if I saw SPANKED on a plate I would instantly think “bloody POM” cause that is just so british Polly bedtime stuff
or ESOLU would be a good one too Moto, and it’s not wanky, just a pipedream.
Bruce
very clever indeed, be even better on the bike, I take it they are still in use?
Used to have the personalised UFO 11 on my old eleven, a former superbike racer came up behind me one day and said, “why don’t you just put Book me on them instead?”
Gotta feed the ego sometimes Champo it is healthy.
BC
As long as the wheel is still true just nip the loose ones up, if the wheel isn’t true, maybe taking it back to the shop for a little “after sales service” would be warranted, I’ve got a good mate who builds wheels for fun and his very rarely come loose as you are describing, sure they settle a bit bit not like that. having said that, the quality of the spokes and rim come into play alot here and that is quite often outside of the wheel lacers’ control.
Bruce C.
I have had spokes come loose in minutes, other take months after initial build, some stretch quickly, I find the stainless don’t as much, usually just get the spoke spanner out and nip them up firm and keep an eye on them, after a while the whole assembly beds in and settles down. I don’t think as a rule they vibrate loose, cause if they did you’ve got issues with the wheel and suspension as a whole.
Bruce C.
I have never owned a Husky, but have ridden quite a few over the years, not a single dog among them, still recall Honest Muz’s (Murray Watts) gold medal at the Ibiza ISDE on the WR125 in the 200cc class.
My next bike will likely be a Husky, i want to live with one before I’m too old to appreciate it, at this stage prob the WR300, so I say do it Mal, do it.
Bruce C.
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