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Late last year a friend I met through the club Roy Germain helped me replace the large idler gear in the timing chest as a precaution, this turned out to be a blessing as we found that at some point work had been done but shims were not replaced correctly. With this sorted I continued to enjoy about 150miles of cracking riding on our local back roads before the winter set in. The end of the silencer had been very sooty, Roy said it was running rich and this showed on the plugs, on checking the carbs the needles were on the notch below the middle notch so I adujusted them to the middle as per book, they are standard new carbs from Burlen. The following day I took the wife out on the back we got about six miles down the road and I lost compression on the front pot, there was'nt any 'death rattle' just a loss of power. We limped back home on one pot with a trail of smoke in our wake, im going to have a look very soon and get it fixed, I know things happen but prior to this the bike had been running very well I had the mag rebuilt by Barry Basset last year and I had checked the timing with as timing disc and put in new engine oil and filter when the timing chest was done, if anybody has any ideas please let me know, sadly Roy passed away before christmas so as well as lossing a good friend I have also lost his invaluable knowledge, thanks.....Ady
Late last year a friend I met through the club Roy Germain helped me replace the large idler gear in the timing chest as a precaution, this turned out to be a blessing as we found that at some point work had been done but shims were not replaced correctly. With this sorted I continued to enjoy about 150miles of cracking riding on our local back roads before the winter set in. The end of the silencer had been very sooty, Roy said it was running rich and this showed on the plugs, on checking the carbs the needles were on the notch below the middle notch so I adujusted them to the middle as per book, they are standard new carbs from Burlen. The following day I took the wife out on the back we got about six miles down the road and I lost compression on the front pot, there was'nt any 'death rattle' just a loss of power. We limped back home on one pot with a trail of smoke in our wake, im going to have a look very soon and get it fixed, I know things happen but prior to this the bike had been running very well I had the mag rebuilt by Barry Basset last year and I had checked the timing with as timing disc and put in new engine oil and filter when the timing chest was done, if anybody has any ideas please let me know, sadly Roy passed away before christmas so as well as lossing a good friend I have also lost his invaluable knowledge, thanks.....Ady