https://youtu.be/hR8oOjUb9hoAnd so it begins. This is the RZ that my friend Karl Jones gave me that covered the guy from Cycle Drag in a large cloud of smoke when Mark and I cranked it in for its' 1st start in five or more years at the Deals Gap meet this year. I recently started the awakening and this is the 1st time I got it to run right and idle. The carbs were amazingly clean and the floats were a couple MM rich but for the life of me I couldn't get it to idle or fall back to idle unless the enrichner was on. This morning on what seemed like the 43rd time I pulled the carbs off I found
The hose that connects the enrichener circuit between the carburetors had a split in it. Every thing on the bike works except the tach and one instrument bulb. A previous owner apparently tried to drive the tach drive into the worm gear and bent the shaft. I will be running an electronic multifunctional after market cluster anyway so I will just cap off the tach drive hole. Frank B came over the other day and we shimmed the oil pump as it had 0 Gap up on the cam so we took a shim out of a parts pump and it is oiling a bit too much now whereas before there was no movement on the pump at idle and no smoke. Better a bit too much than not enough until I get time to try a thinner shim and/or order some from Economy Cycle. It lives and supposedly has a fresh top end installed. It needs the usual stuff from setting. Brake calipers cleaned, new pads, fork seals and some Progressive Springs. The tank is full of scale and varnish so it has to get a dose of Cawell. All fluids changed and a set of new Avons. I also cannibalized the clutch cable off of it at the Gap when mine broke on the white RZ. Thanks to M in SC for the guidance and Frank B for the help. Much, much more to follow...
