Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Run Ivy Run: Aftermarket woes

Freed the left throttle grip just because.  Took a lot of WD40 and elbow grease.

Found all 3 air boxes while also doing a big garage storage re-org.  Since the K&N didn''t fit the aftermarket carb, was hoping to get the stock box installed and just wait for the rubber hose to show up.

But the aftermarket carb can't fit the stock air box either!  Since the gas line sticks out the back, it totally interferes with the fit of the box.

New strategy:

First, setup one of the stock carbs plus the stock air box.  At least this maybe eliminates some unknowns by sticking with stock.

If that fails, or even in parallel, get the K&N RU-0100 offset version which should theoretically fit the aftermarket.


Carb and filter audit:

  1. "$10" - has no covers but otherwise seems in good nick
  2. Viola original - right cover is stuck on and there's an old filter bolted inside, so effectively useless until the cover is freed
  3. "Number 3" - this came with 1 plastic cover, but the tab has broken off.  Otherwise in very good shape, so I stole 1 cover from the Viola box to make it complete.

Also, as of today, we have 3 used filters and a brand new repop one from 4-into-1.



No comments:

Post a Comment