This is the worst rack I've seen YET!!!

Before

 

During: I've only had to mess up one carb hat screw, two airjets, and cutvthe enricher shaft ( which was already missing 1/4 of it anyway.)

 

I might've just thrown up a little in my mouth.

Nice hats. hah!

 

I suppose there are still some good parts there, but what a rack to start with!

 

Hmmmm.... where DOES one draw the line, anyway?!?! Well, I'm still going, cuz there are no broken float towers, and things still keep coming apart. I think the challenge is actually gonna be to get the pieces of enriched shaft out.

Even the mixture screw caps are still in! And the diaphragms are great


Eeeeeewwwww----

 

Please post the AFTER picture... if you end up taking the project in that direction...

 

Oh, it's GONNA go there.......this one is simply a challenge now. Lol

 

That was the 1st thing I was curious about after seeing the hats completely perforated.
The pigeons there are eating something very acidic.

 

I expected to have holes, or be brittle. The thing that really is amazing is the sheer amount of black goo in the bowls! It is deep enough to have stretched out like taffy between the bowls and the main jets when I pulled the bowls off.

 

Are those from the bike that looked like it had been drowned?

 

You, sir, are a glutton for punishment! But it is a fun challenge

 

No-- this for a 650rj. These are from another forum member. Based on his description, though, I would imagine the bike is worse than my drowned 650 turbo, though....

 

OMG!

 

Hmmm. Can’t be MY set can it? Lord knows I wouldn’t put you out like that. Lol. Oh. Wait. Maybe I did

 

Nope-- finishing a different one, yours is next..... This is a more longer-term rack

 

You know, with the "Worst Rack I've Seen" title, in the Hangout Lounge, I really expected better pictures.

But those bowls ARE disgusting!

 

Was that shipped to you with one of those yellow-and-black bee stripe stickers on it "CAUTION: HAZARDOUS WASTE" ?

 

Something tells me this is the type of stuff that brings you great joy!

 

chalanges like that give you a reason to wake up in the morning

 

Oh man. Nope. I’ll just sleep in.

 

I like your subtle dig at my prowess with typos.

 

Jeez. Just finding pants is chalange enough for me!

 

Pants? Or parts---?

 

It's Matti, so....

 

His wife wears em anyway, so no real need to look in the first place.

 

Nope. Today she's wearing the shorts.

 

Pics or it didn't happen

 

Here's a couple pics of the 650rj that the rack is from. The owner sent them for me to show you---

 

Not too dissimilar to mine, except mine is purple, and less tank and forks.

 

Wow it’s going to need a set of fork tubes as well as seat cover and and and ... I would guess that the tank is as bad as carbs are. One the plus side it does have the Power Lock.

 

I believe it was purchased as a parts bike

 

the right sidecover is the diamond

 

i've seen flowers in a old toilet but never moss in a bike seat

 

Where do you come up with these sayings?

 

Ya gotta know Polock, and you'd understand

 

Yup, it has the lock. But no key. Yet.

 

be careful if you click this
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Polock .. like this ?

Or this .. ?

It'd be hard to clean those bowls

 

Talk about getting off-topic!!

 

think of the money to be saved on plant food

 

And now, Back to our regularly-scheduled broadcast----

As the day ends, and the sun goes down-- we see our carburetor cowboy putting three of the four carbs to bed for the night. They're tired from a good workout. The fourth one is still busy.




The fourth carb still needs to have the emulsion
tube removed, and all four mixture screws still need to be removed. BUT-- the mixture screw plugs are still in... so these have never been molested! They should be pretty easy

 

Starting to look like carbs instead of a turd pretending to be a set of carbs. Those are a candidate for Vapor blasting .

 

I am planning to sodablast them

 

Do you have your own soda blasting set up Dave?

 

Yes-- I made a homemade setup. It good for carbs, but not big things like car frames or stuff

 

Just for fun, the owner sent me this pic..... A close-up of the frame --the lower right cradle by the oil level sight glass

 

I’m sure you have a frame you can send him with the finished carbs. I wouldn’t want to tackle that restoration.

 

The last piece of the enricher shaft has FINALLY moved a teeny bit. Lots of heat-cycling, tapping, and kroil.....here it's on its way out! All the emulsion tubes are out, all slide needles are good. The only thing to pull yet are the mixture screws after I drill the caps.

 

All that unnecessary work, all you gotta do is adjust the idle adjustment knob!