pittss1c

Hello from champaign/Urbana. I also head to Taylorville from time to time as well. For camping or laid back riding LTM is the best in the area, for a hard day of riding, I go to badlands.

I have PWK 28s on a 4 mil. When doing a plug chop, if I go through all gears and hold it for a bit in the top gear for a few seconds, it will show lean 100% of the time. No matter how big my jets are (even way too rich) I am guessing that means the bowls can run dry on long runs.

I have them on stock A arms. I am told I will die soon though. So does another guy I met that has run them on stock arms for the last few years. I am guessing they will eventually ruin the ball joints, but I hope to upgrade the arms by then.

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Is it tip top now?

I'll be there with a blaster (Banshee cylinders are still at F.A.S.T.) and am deciding if I should bring a bike too. Are most people getting track passes as well?

Stupid rain! Hopefully the woods won't be too wet.

No banshee for the weekend... But I put a new topend in the Blaster last night, and have a babysitter lined up. I should have the motor broken in by the weekend.

I love you video sig.... I almost peed myself. I am crossing my fingers on the banshee, we will see what they say... I am going to try to get a new piston in the blaster in case I am going to bring it. (that should be pretty simple, there is no damage there)

I'm trying hard to make it. My cylinders are off to the shop, but it turns out my wife will be out of town. I might have a babysitter lined up, but am not sure how early I can arrive. If the weather is right, I can't see missing another one of these.

I would also get it apart and check for play in the bolt holes. (out of round)

Good luck with that jugriggs! (Though I don't have too much better track record)

I need to get my cyls out to get bored so I can make it in time! Either way, I will plan to come (even if I have to bring the blasty)

Are those 2 sets of photos showing the same thing? The common page referred to for plug chops that you point to here is a single run of of brand new plugs. The first link you have here looks like something different. Can you get plugs that dark with a single trip through the gears? I never could.. even with very rich jets. The plug reading was much more subtle.

So, how did it go?

Yes I am crazy, but not about this. I did not say it was too thin for Flux Core. I said it was too thin for "my" flux core. I have a harbor freight cheep one that only has high and low current. The low is still too much for thin metals. I usually don't use it on anything less than 1/8"

Are they really aluminum? The ones I have welded were "aluminized". (including an FMF on a dirtbike) I think it is a super thin coating of aluminium on top of the steel. Although it was too thin for my flux core (blows holes right through it). I have successfully welded pipes with an oxy/acetylene torch. This includes a repair like you need.

I think we are just going to go to Casey instead. If the riding stinks, we can drink and watch the buggy races instead.

maybe I could make it for a bit.... More important, I could really use a full report on the conditions tonight, as badlands is a consideration for tomorrow.

I'm out. No banshee to ride, and some of my other crew can't ride til Sunday. Have fun on your swim.

I am using snap gauges for the bore, but calipers to read the snap gauges. I could go get a caliper for the piston/snap gauge reader (harbor freight right down the road), but it is either great coincidence that I get consistent reading of the bore that exactly match what would be expected, or this method is accurate. What am I going to do? Well, I'm not going to ride at the banshee HQ badlands ride this weekend. Second, I am going to solicit feedback about where I should send my juggs. If they can be bored to 66 successfully, I will have that done concurrently with the piston purchase. It will be mostly bolt on and ready to go. Also, since I need new domes, I might drop them down 1 size. It was conservative compression to start with (130 PSI)... Might try to get closer to 150. My fear is, I have found a couple of errors with the engine now (shift star screw came out, and some torque errors). I fear that the rebuild that occurred right before I bought it was done by a hillbilly. I am tempted to tear the whole engine apart and check everything over the winter.

I know...right? My piston from 10mm up from the bottom is 2.569 inches and my cylinder is 2.580 (my calipers are in inches) which is .011 clearance or .011*25.4=.2794mm. It is almost as if this was a +1.25 piston that was stamped 1.50.

I'm guessing that is why I ended up with a trashed engine. Looks like the guy I bought it from bored it to 65.5 and put +1.5 pistons in it, but the pistons are much smaller... .28 mm clearance instead of .05mm. My plan is to send it to a shop that knows WTF they are doing, and have them shipped back bored/honed with the pistons in it ready to go. It might cost a few bucks more, but less then the ~$400 (absolute best case) I have to put out cause the last guy was an idiot.