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 Posted: 19:39 - 10 Aug 2008  Post subject: Ham-fisted Harry |
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I bought a s-plate fazer recently that has 70-odd thousand miles on the clock. Been used for commuting with only new tyres and regular oil-changes for attention. I had to ride it 1/2 mile home.
Engien sounds not too bad with a bit of camchain rattle but the main two things I noticed was 1. the grips were loose (had to put a death-grip on the throttle to turn it (turned-out to be someone had bodged some heated grips on backbards by sawing the one that goes on the throttle tube and wrapping insulating tape around the bar on the clutch side  ) and 2. throttle response was very on/off in that it would barely idle, pick-up on two cylinders then all of a sudden leap forward when it picked-up on four pots.
Today I stripped the carbs, to find that two of the idle mixture screws have been screwed in so tight that the tips snapped off and were jammed in the hole, one was set about right but seized solid and the last was undone half a dozen turns. God alone knows what they were trying to achieve but now I'm off to eBay to find a set of fazer 600 carbs.
Some people should definately step-away from the spanners!
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| Posted: 22:43 - 10 Aug 2008 Post subject: Re: Ham-fisted Harry |
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| Geri wrote: |
Some people should definately step-away from the spanners! |
There again. If the Japanese made their motorcycle parts out of materials with a much lower cheese content and finally put a stop to their bloody minded insistance on using cross heads/pozidrive (or a mixture of the two as I found on the ones I stripped for cleaning last night) on their screw fittings, it probably wouldn't have happened.
While they are at it, they could probably see their way clear to putting the mixture screws somewhere you can actually see them, get at them and put some weight on the head to stop the driver slipping
Even Russian carbs are made from better alloy and brass than Kehin and Mikuni. I mean really, brass has no business seizing in the first place.
Suggestions. Well allen heads work ok, Torx seem to work too. The Soviets use big, chunky, cheese-heads on which you can use an enormous screwdriver
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