First ride (or rides plural as we went a number of places so got a number of starts/stops on it) after reinstalling the carbs. Ran beautifully. On the first couple of "warm up and look for leaks" driveway tests I'd noticed a very slight pause at 3k rpms when coming down to idle, but that's gone now.
Had a friend follow behind to watch for issues that I wouldn't be able to see myself. He noted a very slight, blue, haze from the left exhaust when I was accelerating hard at high RPMs. I keep a close eye on oil level anyways, so we'll see what comes of that (could have been doing that for years for all I know too...). Chain has a ton of slop in it, so will be inspecting that and I expect it's new chain and sprocket time even though the sprockets still look decent. Just eyeballing where the adjusters are, I'd be surprised if the chain stretch isn't beyond what can be adjusted out...
Still need to get a temporary bottle rigged up and sync the carbs too.
Had a friend follow behind to watch for issues that I wouldn't be able to see myself. He noted a very slight, blue, haze from the left exhaust when I was accelerating hard at high RPMs. I keep a close eye on oil level anyways, so we'll see what comes of that (could have been doing that for years for all I know too...). Chain has a ton of slop in it, so will be inspecting that and I expect it's new chain and sprocket time even though the sprockets still look decent. Just eyeballing where the adjusters are, I'd be surprised if the chain stretch isn't beyond what can be adjusted out...
Still need to get a temporary bottle rigged up and sync the carbs too.
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