That's an excellent article, thanks for putting me onto it to remind me to take a closer examination of mine.

Excellent article! I will do a closer inspection of my brake lines but I can see I might very well need new brake lines.

I was out for a run and today it decided to throw a muffler out on the road. Good times! The front brakes are heating up and dragging hard, it looks l...

Turns out turn signals and horn are out which makes me think even more it's a ground issue. Time to start studying the wiring diagram.

Ok, when I get a chance I will start tracing wiring to see what I see. I just know when I would lose the signal lights on the R65 it was usually becau...

Thanks for all your help Richard! My first run out yesterday was great, decent weather despite a section of fog and reasonable temps. I met up with Ti...

YaaaaY! Thank you so much for pointing me in the direction of a vacuum leak! Turns out the issue was the rubber boot from the airbox was pinched on on...

The empty float bowl was my own stupidity not turning the petcocks to reserve rather than "on". I had one start where it settled down to a nice idle b...

Ok, I will check the intake spigot when I get back home. I definitely double checked the butterflies were in correctly, it was easy to see if the beve...

Definitely not the throttle cables, I checked and there is a touch of slack there so the butterflies close completely. I backed off the choke cables t...

Looks to be sitting about right to me. Slide bottoms out properly. Throttle cables could be an issue, I looked online for a description of h...

Funny, when you've only got a little gas in the tank it helps to turn the petcocks to reserve. Got the crossover line between the fuel lines properly ...

I think the first thing I'm going to check are the petcocks to make sure they're not clogged. From there I'll pull one carb at a time and go over the ...

Ok, I've definitely done something wring as the float bowls are not filling up. I pulled them and checked those ports which were fine. I tried another...

I've looked at the service receipts from the previous owner and I think the only carb service done was new gaskets for the float bowls, he owned it fo...