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Old 06-25-2009, 11:59 AM   #1
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Running rich but what I find suspicious is that only half of the plug is black. It's not blowing any smoke when it runs right? Did you ever check your valve height? Run a compression check also.
It blew some smoke yesterday when I first started it before I rode it but then it seemed to be clean. I held my hand behind the exhaust for a bit and came up clean.

You're right, only half the plug is black...I didn't notice that.

I didn't check valve height or run the compression check. I'm wondering if I need special tools for that? Going to look it up in the shop manual...
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Old 06-25-2009, 05:30 PM   #2
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It would be much easier to check the valves if I had the first clue what I was doing, lol.

"Check the clearance by inserting a flat feeler gauge between the rocker arm pad and camshaft lobe"

Great, WTF is that. Off to google I go
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Old 06-25-2009, 06:55 PM   #3
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Sounds like one of your valves may be mucked up.. Check your compression too.
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Old 06-25-2009, 06:57 PM   #4
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I've been out there kicking that thing all day, got it to run for 5 seconds once but that was the best.

I did take the valve covers off and looked at the top of the valves. They were very clean looking, no carbon buildup...looked brand new actually.

I need to get a feeler gauge and a flywheel puller before I proceed any further.
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Old 06-25-2009, 08:03 PM   #5
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Work through one thing at a time. If you skip around to different things it makes it hard to keep everything straight.
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Old 06-25-2009, 08:06 PM   #6
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Work through one thing at a time. If you skip around to different things it makes it hard to keep everything straight.
Yea I don't say things very well but that's what I was getting at. You need to make sure one thing is "perfect" before moving on to the next problem. Otherwise you can never be sure what the actual problem is.
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