Central New York Carb Clinic #12 - June 8, 2019

End of the day

 

Special visitor on the shop door after dark.... a Luna Moth

 

So here's a compact list of what was done:

3 bikes synced
1 clearance adjustment
1 oil change
1 fork oil change
1 rear gear oil change
1 speedometer opened for service
1 tachometer replaced
1 carb rack opened and adjusted ( other issues to be addressed after trip home)
1 auxiliary light replaced
A few electrical issues solved
A lot of food and sodas consumed
A few misc broken parts replaced
Replaced a faulty petcock
Replaced a broken/shorted right-hand control
Re-connected an electrical connection during our afternoon ride

I probably missed something, so more updates from others will fill in the gaps

Dfox

 

THANK YOU TO ALL WHO ATTENDED!!! It was another great carb clinic, and a great time for catching up with friends--- time to gear up for CNYCC#13...June 2020

SPECIAL THANKS TO LEN CHACAL AND XJ4EVER For all the support!

Thanks also to Gates-Cole Insurance and NAPA for the door prize donations---your support is MUCH appreciated!!!

 

Sunday morning:

After coffee and donuts, as Geoff and Dustin were preparing to leave, intermittent electrical issue that Jeff was having yesterday caused his bike to shut down…

While working on his bike, there was another helicopter flyover .



After some investigating we found a shorted and burned wire in his ignition switch. We dug another switch out of the parts stash… And after a little while wereable to start up with no more issues.



On leaving, though, his bike started to mess and sputter... and then stalled out. I flipped his switch to PRI, it started up-then he noticed when he had moved his tank, The vacuum line had slipped off. That problem was taken care of-so now everyone is happily on their ways home.

The clean-up crew has arrived


Plan ahead --- CNYCC#13 is scheduled for June 13, 2020. That should be easy to remember --- " The 13th on the 13th".

Dfox

 

Glad this got sorted. Hope the guys have a good and safe trip home.

I got back as well. Took advantage of the weather and having all day and chose scenic routes to get back home. A
I am very glad I spent a few dollars on a crampbuster and a cooling shirt for underneath the jacket.

Definitely another great CC weekend.

 

His venturity looks bent, LOL

 

Obviously out of order...
- bike lineup without riders. Nuch will have the official one.
- the scene in the morning as work got underway
- Dave sync-ing my carbs. The master works fast!

I got home at 11pm, unloaded the bike, shower then bed. Great day and super nice to meet folks from here. That was a great ride at the end of the day as well! I wished I had my go-pro!

 

Just arrived home after an eventful post-clinic day. On our ride last night my bike had been cutting out intermittently while riding, but would either catch up on it's own or I could get it started with the starter button. I assumed I just knocked something loose when I was fooling around in the headlight bucket while replacing the tach and putting new LEDs behind the Speedo and tach. When we got back I made sure everything was snugged up, turned it on and it seemed to run ok. Thankfully, we actually planned to to a quick running synch this morning, because while warming the bike up it kept cutting out until finally it wouldn't start anymore. After investigating we found, as Dave said above, there was a short a wire connected to the kill switch. I hastened its demise while clumsily fiddling with it and pulled the wire out of it's barely soldered connection. Fortunately, the east coast parts hoarder was there to save the day and we were able to quickly get it up and running with a replacement.

Despite my issues, and Dustin's, it was a great ride. We had to do a little bit of roadside service to my fellow Pennsylvanian's ride half way through. Thankfully, it was a brief intermission and we were able to quickly get back to enjoying the fantastic scenery around Dave's place.

It was great to meet new XJ enthusiasts and catch up with old acquaintances. Thanks to Dave for hosting again and sharing his yard with us! Thanks, Carmine, for the awesome food and bringing those sweet new XJ threads; I'm wearing my new shirt as I type this. And thanks to everyone else for the great conversation and making this community great!

 

From where I sit, I count at least one jealous Canuck.

 

I wish I was over there in the USA so I could go to the Carb Clinic too.

 

My friends. Thank you for making this year's carb clinic another great one... Just got back home and of course I'm swamped with other things already. I'll be back on in a few days to post more pics and share some thoughts but I didn't want any more time to go by without sharing the group photo.

Until then...

-Nuch

p.s. For some reason, the forum is compressing my image down to 1200 pixels across. The image I have is of course much larger... Can't figure it out...

 

Having been part of the XJ community here on XJbikes for some time, I wanted to say that I had a great experience finally making the 8 hour round trip to attend this year's clinic. Looks like everyone made it home safe.

Got a chance to help out a bit, and even learn how to do a valve adjustment on an "Air-head".

Thanks Dave "Hogfiddles" for hosting a memorable event, and look forward to getting together at the next one.
And maybe we'll be blessed again with weather as nice as this year's, and I'll ride up Friday and do an overnight.

Tony

 

Tough-looking bunch............

 

No tractor driving pictures this year?

 

Yea New York is a bit of a jaunt for me

 

Soooo jealous I missed yet another one... Life gets in the way of my life...
Maybe next year and happy for you guys that were able to get together!

 

This was an exciting trip to say the least! Sunday morning my phone had some technical issues which inevitably lead to me losing the video I was going to post of all the bikes...
I had been having issues with feeling like when I turn left my rear tire slides to the right, which right before Geoff and I parted ways , lead to me not being able to pull out of a turn and almost slamming into a concrete center divide... After ariving at my aunt's several hours later and camping for the night, the next day when my 14 year old nephew and 10 year old niece got home from school they where asking me a bunch of questions about my bike and while showing them how the speedometer worked and how to replace it I notice the bolt on my left fork was barely on and stripped out! I'm thinking what has been going on is that this caused my wheel to shift enough on turns and making the rear wheel slide a bit. After replacing the bolt and making sure everything was tightened properly I haven't had issues with the tire sliding out!
After waiting out the worst part of a storm I arrived home safe and sound ( and very exhausted) after about 6 hours....can't wait till the next clinic!!

 

@smeagol21b Glad you made it home and even happier you figured out the problem! Every little thing is making that bike better and before long, you'll be wondering if you ought to just paint it because that's all that left! Hope to see you next year!

 

I've already got it planned on how I'm going to have it painted! Just need to invest in another bike so I can do a full frame off restoration! I'll be sticking with the same color, quartz silver, but with a touch of metallic flake, decals will be painted with a blue with flake and a pearl essence white! But first I need to fix carbs to get rid of that hang idle lol