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bobo383 Serious Thumper 2004 No Login Offline Neck=Red Posts: 516 Arlington, TX Gender:	Re: Where Every Town is a Harley Town... Reply #15 - 03/28/05 at 20:29:57 I went back and modified the posts using bikepics, you should be able to see it. The first ones were linked to Yahoo and I could see them just fine, but apparently nobody else could. Sorry about that. Anybody else use Yahoo photo pages for linking?
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Reply #16 - 03/28/05 at 21:44:57

If you're limited to 3500 rpm no load then you have some sort of rev limiting -- might try stiffer valve springs?

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Reply #17 - 03/28/05 at 23:36:50

Gitarzan wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:03:

It's got educational possibilities. My ears were way off on guessing RPMs until the tach. Not that I needed to know, but I wanted to know.

But as an absolute must = absolute not.

here are the shift points as explained by dave f on another forum

1st - Shift up when the bike stops accelerating.
2nd - shift up when the mirrors begin to buzz.
3rd - shift up when bugs stop bouncing off your face and begin to splatter.
4th - shift up when your mouth suddenly fills with air and begins to function as a air scoop.
5th - shift up when you forget there is no sixth gear.

thats about all you need to know of shift points.

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bobo383 Serious Thumper 2004 No Login Offline Neck=Red Posts: 516 Arlington, TX Gender:	Re: Where Every Town is a Harley Town... Reply #18 - 03/29/05 at 04:06:56 Paladin, Please shoot me an email and let me know how I can do the $7/month pic hosting thing. belindabobo@sbcglobal.net The mower is totally stock (well except for the redneck tach mod), along with what I assume is the typical Briggs & Stratton wind-vane type governor.
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Reply #19 - 03/30/05 at 16:20:10

sluggo wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:03:

here are the shift points as explained by dave f on another forum

1st - Shift up when the bike stops accelerating.
2nd - shift up when the mirrors begin to buzz.
3rd - shift up when bugs stop bouncing off your face and begin to splatter.
4th - shift up when your mouth suddenly fills with air and begins to function as a air scoop.
5th - shift up when you forget there is no sixth gear.

thats about all you need to know of shift points.

That was my post! Glad you liked it.

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sluggo Serious Thumper ModSquad Offline big singles lead, twins follow the pack Posts: 4744 moses lake washington Gender:	Re: Where Every Town is a Harley Town... Reply #20 - 03/30/05 at 16:29:15 Gitarzan wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:03: That was my post! Glad you liked it. well yeah, why use a tach when that technical information is available. maybe even should post it in the technical section
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Paladin. Serious Thumper Offline Hamster Posts: 4929 Sunny Southern California Gender:	Re: Where Every Town is a Harley Town... Reply #21 - 03/31/05 at 09:58:50 bobo383 wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:03: Please shoot me an email and let me know how I can do the $7/month pic hosting thing. belindabobo@sbcglobal.net.... If you have DSL you can host the pictures off your home computer -- all free software.
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Reply #22 - 04/01/05 at 08:13:08

Paladin. wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:03:

If you're limited to 3500 rpm no load then you have some sort of rev limiting -- might try stiffer valve springs?

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All the Craftsman riders have a governor.....hard to describe it but it's got a mechanical paddle that works off the cooling fan air flow that cuts back the throttle. That and a couple springs prevent you from over revving the motor.

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Reply #23 - 04/01/05 at 10:21:56

As a teenager in Detroit I had to mow our lawn with an old 2-stroke rotary mower.

The automatic throttle thingie broke, so I ran a piece of fishline from the handle to manually operate the throttle. Bugger would scream. Which it needed to as I attacked foot tall grass and weeds.

One spring I decided to decarbonize the thing, took it apart, cleaned it, put it back together. Wouldn't start. Being a brilliant teenager I figured I'd reduce the exhaust backpressure and removed the muffler. Started right up. Let it warm up, replaced the muffer. Wouldn't start. Removed the muffler and tossed it.

Later that summer I went to mow the lawn but was out of gasoline. Did have a gallon can of alcohol that we used for lighting the BBQ so I mixed some oil in and used that. Ran fine.

Ended with an unmuffled un-governed fuel burning lawn mower. It was fun being allowed to do stupid things. Freedom includes the freedom to hurt, maim, or even kill yourself doing stupid things. Such as trying to ride an unsuitable motorcycle because you think it is kool.

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Reply #24 - 04/01/05 at 14:06:18

Sounds like my old mower, took a Briggs 5hp rejetted it, cut .030" off of a 4hp head and ran a header pipe. Also tossed the stock ignition and installed a solid state one. Then I found out where I could get methanol and ran that. Didn't last long but it could cut some serious grass. Grin

. Always wanted to get my hands on a rotary, you can get some real high rpms out of one. The toys of old do make us bold !!!

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sluggo Serious Thumper ModSquad Offline big singles lead, twins follow the pack Posts: 4744 moses lake washington Gender:	Re: Where Every Town is a Harley Town... Reply #25 - 04/01/05 at 14:35:28 ya know guys, there are lawn mower racing associations in nearly every state. i'm going out tommorrow to our local "spring fair" to annouce the races. i rode one for some fun two years ago. i slid it into the fence to make it a little more exciting. last year nowbody would let me ride their machine
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Reply #26 - 04/01/05 at 19:08:16

Savage_Greg wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:04:

All the Craftsman riders have a governor.....hard to describe it but it's got a mechanical paddle that works off the cooling fan air flow that cuts back the throttle. That and a couple springs prevent you from over revving the motor.

Yup, I defeated the gov on a previous mower by running the throttle cable directly to the carb linkage -- but it did not last too long after that. It spit oil out the breather hole into the intake (airbox) like you would not believe. Of course I ran it anyway and got what I deserved. I imagine if it was a full pressure motor it would have been ok.

Maybe sluggo can find out how the racers keep oil in the motor at high rpm. This one's a briggs & stratton horizontally opposed twin, 20.5 hp. Appears splash oiled only, no screw-on filter.

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Gitarzan Serious Thumper 2004 No Login Offline ! Posts: 827 Columbus, Oh, Earth, Solar Sys Gender:	Re: Where Every Town is a Harley Town... Reply #27 - 04/03/05 at 11:26:46 I did that a few years with an old Tecumseh. The motor had spent time in 3 different chassis over about 10 years. Finally I defeated the governor. Man, that cump ran. but not for long after the governor was hacked. Had to buy a Briggs about a month later.
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Gitarzan Serious Thumper 2004 No Login Offline ! Posts: 827 Columbus, Oh, Earth, Solar Sys Gender:	Re: Where Every Town is a Harley Town... Reply #28 - 03/06/07 at 20:53:18 Bump for the Noobs. 8)
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