I'm sort of a newish member. No one knows my name or history. I "joined' recently. I did not get a current copy of the AirMail, I got the next one to ...

I'll add another tidbit to Wobbleys thorough response. To REALLY set your points gap you want a dwell meter. Usually combined with a tach for a tach/ ...

I'm an old man, disabled and my hands shake badly. It is difficult for me to type so I leave the long dissertations on every conceivable situation t...

What did you blast with? Even with CO2 blasting the crud you are blasting off will get inside everywhere. If you media blasted the media, even soda, A...

to expand a bit on Scots comment: the timing is set at full advance and you have no choice about what RPM full advance happens unless you open up the ...

beats me. but you can calculate it: what are you going to use the tool for?. there are sketches on the web for some flywheel tools with dimension...

if turning the idle air screw (the idle mix is fixed by a jet, the idle air screw determines how much mix is fed to the head---some semantics.) does n...

With the bike running at about 2500rpm when you pull one throttle cable you open the butterfly on that side. The vacuum from this in turn causes the d...

I would check the rest of the drive line. With a big screw driver and working through the timeing hole check for play in the clutch carrier/flywheel. ...

the single disk ATE brake will not lock the front on good pavement in my experience. Neither will the dual disk Brembo setup on the dual shock bikes. ...

I don't think your '74 has a 2000$ O-ring but read the article then open the canister and see what is in there THEN buy a new filter. The oil can be d...

no, it will not. When you apply front brake hard the weight of you and the bike pitches forward loading the front tire and unloading the rear tire. Th...

gas tanks typically rust out along the bottom seams and around the petcock hole. This damage can be repaired, the tank relined and then painted. OTOH ...

the amount of oil in the shaft is quite critical, but there is an odd reason. there is an oil seal between the final drive and the shaft. if the seal...

You have a 4 speed transmission. When the change to 5 speeds happened (in there somewhere) the flywheel changed as did the length of the tranny input ...