What did you do to your Wing today ?

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aussiegold » Mon Sep 05, 2016 12:59 pm[/url]":2e0yelyf]

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aussiegold » Sat Sep 03, 2016 11:22 pm[/url]":2e0yelyf]
took my LTD out for a spin and noticed immediately how well it seemed to be going. or rather, how down my blue 75 was performing.
hmmm, checked the normal things but it seemed to be bogging down a little. got an inspection mirror and had a look at the carb slides and there was bugger all movement. weird.. unbolted the carbs , removed the tops and slides. cleaned the slides and caps with some polish , then washed them down with wax and grease remover. put them back, and it is running much much better. although it does seem to need a lot of revs to lift the slides. not sure what is normal tho......
i'll take it out tomorrow for a test.

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went out for a spin and it did not perform as well as i wanted it to. still bogging slightly and holding the throttle at 2000 in neutral , it just did not sound smooth.
did notice a little backfire in the plenum from number three, when revving it . hmm. pulled the plugs and all looked ok. carb synch good.
went over the valve clearances and one or two were a little tight. nothing serious.
took the points cover off, and checked the static timing on the C5, BINGO..... :Egyptian:
the slotted wheel of the unit had a smidgeon of movement and the timing was actually off.with further investigation it was revealed that the packing washer to hold the wheel tight , was just a bit too thin. played with it a bit and it was possible to be fooled into thinking it was tight ,but it was not. got a thicker packing washer and retimed it.
have just had it out and all is good with the world... in fact, i'm going out again... :salute:

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desertrefugee » Mon Sep 05, 2016 2:55 pm[/url]":1x7dk87l]
For no other reason than I was in the garage (cool now in Phoenix in the AM - finally) and I hadn't done it since rebuilding and installing the rack. I really wanted to see how they'd held sync.

Pulled out the handy-dandy CarbTune and had at it. The answer is - they held pretty well. I didn't bother even adjusting. But, I can say from experience that poorly synch'ed carbs can cause anything from poor, erratic idling to sub-par top end performance. My 1200 would actually "sing out of tune". You could hear it. Had one carb on that rack that liked to "reset" itself.

Not today. Close enough for gub'ment work...

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detdrbuzzard » Mon Sep 05, 2016 3:31 pm[/url]":w0k0a0jy]
I went riding on the mighty ST 1300 instead of putting a new fuel filter in the 1500 wing

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brianinpa » Wed Sep 14, 2016 8:43 pm[/url]":4upt1r8f]
I took the main main jet out of the carb and dropped the darn thing on the floor. They are hard to find...

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detdrbuzzard » Fri Sep 16, 2016 9:52 am[/url]":za6zb1mr]
once I got home from henry's I gave the wing and the mighty ST 1300 a very good check up, both will be on the road tomorrow morning

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dan filipi » Sat Sep 24, 2016 8:43 pm[/url]":c3ic8pfn]
Good excuse as any to ride the wing :good:

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