After the restoration: 13200-mile service [page 2]
Tuesday, Oct 3, 2006
I got out the tools and books that I might need to finish the service. The books are duplicates of what I keep in my "office". These versions are kept in the toolbox and can get greasy.
Static timing was checked and found to be close. Close enough that I didn't bother trying to tweak it. Instead I reconnected the coil and condenser and started the bike. At idle, about 750 RPM, the timing light clipped to the spark plug lead shows the line under the S mark to be in the middle of the window most of the time. I've a touch if differential timing on this bike. It's not enough to bother doing anything about it. I greased the points cam and closed the front cover.
I took of the exhaust nuts to apply some fresh anti-seize.
The next task is the best part of a tune up: riding the bike to get it warm to adjust the carbs and drain the oil. I stopped for gas first, then put about 7 miles on the bike on a mixture of city streets, back roads, and freeway miles.
When back in my driveway I first adjusted the idle mixture, or at least attempted to adjust the idle mixture. The right side adjusts quite nice. The left doesn't. I believe it's always been that way since I put these carbs on the bike. Grumble.
After the idle air I used my twin-max to adjust the idle and off idle. I think carb stix are easier to use than the twin max, but the twin max is what I have. The idle was OK. The off idle needed a bit of adjustment.