Thanks guys, just ignore the oil bit for now, I'll have to check into it some more.

As for the other, yeah I've got the carb cleaner stuff just have to find the time. This weekend is booked, from tonight till Sunday.

HAH!

I snuck in 2 hours to tear apart and clean the carb.

And guess what I found? Well the bowl had a little bit of sediment, which wasn't a huge deal but I cleaned it all up, even one of the floats was a little dirty.

As I'm taking apart the carb, I'm finding a little bit of sediment here and there. But I pulled out the main jet, and holy sh*t the thing was packed full of crap. Quite litteraly the entire jet was full of rust/sediment. Sprayed it out, cleaned it up. Put all back together. And she idles perfectly on a full choke. With no choke she almost doesn't want to idle, idles but almost sounds like she's going to die. But the most important part.... I can actually give her throttle now without her dieing!

Nothing like scaring the crap out of the children with the bike roaring to life then giving a lovely BANG!

A few more things and she'll be ready to be inspected/licensed again.

I still noticed the oil leak, where oil is getting on the bottom of the muffler clamp and then burning up. But, I haven't found out if there is still a leak or not. The problem is NOT from the spedo cable though, that entire area was cleaned before I fired her up, and running a clean white cloth across that area, picked nothing up before and after starting her for about 5 minutes.

Yep, the oil was changed a week or two ago. After doing the ATF through the sparkplug hole, letting it set a few days, then drained the entire bike. Then added new oil, replaced filter.

Mr 650 wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:05:


For the tires, yeah the old ones are still on her, holding air for now. But I do have a new set of Dunlop 404s to put on when I get around to it.

I think I'll take the advice, air up the tires and take her out a bit. Sitting in this basement and running only 10 minutes tops standing still isn't showing me anything.

I hope the patient is fully recovered and work ready soon too, the beast (86 bronco 2) is starting to eat oil now.

Ok Setral, but last time I wandered in here I got "Truncated".
If this blows up this time it's your fault.
I am putting my helmet and leathers on prior to posting.

Here is the Bobo photo of the Idle screw:


..whew I'm still here.
But 1st you have to drill a little hole in this brass plug,  the folks at Mikuni have already center punched it fo' ya:

(Durandal's photo w/ throttle pointer, thanks)
and screw in a small sheet metal screw to make a handle, then grab the new " handle" w/ your pliers and yank the bugger out. Please DON"T drill into the adjuster screw underneath though.


Setral wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:05:

I think when I looked at it the other day, my 87 I could see the screw already. But I didn't pay a lot of attention when I was cleaning out my carb. I'll check tonight, thanks Rob

Sorry, lol... been busy with family stuff this past week. I fired it up again last night just to be sure its still running ok.

It's been a while but if I remember correctly, white smoke is burning oil.