The Loser: Road Warrior Addition

[RideFreak]

Originally Posted by Lomax

It looks like the RTV monster puked inside that carb.

Marc

[Uncle Goo]

well now that Paul got the loser running great I'm waiting for the snow to melt to get a chance to finally take it out for a spin.
Thanks Paul for all your work, hopefully we'll have many goods rides together.

--goo

[toastmuncher]

Originally Posted by Pablo83

The Loser made a brief appearance at the Elephant Ride, but nobody rode it. I was suspicious that it was running lean (still seemed to be heating up too much). I've rebuilt so many Honda V twin carbs this summer that I thought I had done the Loser's too, but I wasn't sure so I pulled them out. It turns out I hadn't rebuilt them. This is what I found when I opened the float bowl:



Somebody loved RTV gaskets maker as much as they liked red wires. Overall the jets were pretty clean, but the idle circuits were dirty. I removed the factory plugs that cover the idle mixture screws and cleaned out the full idle circuit and put it all back together and it seems to run well. The radiator temp switch even started working for some unknown reason (the fan now clicks on automatically ).

It's time to take this bike for a real ride.

What a fucking mess.

[Pablo83]

Just to be able to document this for future generations, the Loser's engine is now an '86 Shadow 500 with the shift pawl from the ascot.