Seat Repair

So I have a few tears on my seat but love it! So I wanted to try to just fix em. I have some new vinyl fabric on order that matches, and I am going to do some patch work myself, but there was one big tear down the entire split that separates the front from back seat. I came up with a solution i'm pretty damn happy with. I had an old black belt, cut it in half lengthwise to make it thinner, then used really good water and uv ray proof glue and tucked it under the seat cover trim. let me know what ya think of my repair! here are some before and after shots. More pics when I finish the other patches. Also put brand new hardware under the seat pan for seat attachment to the bike, the old pins were all rusted out. Thanks for helping Jorge!

no start up?

So I put the cleaned and reassembled carbs and petcock back on the bike, didnt have time to get a new gasket for the petcock, but the leaking is at a min so I thought i'd try. The engine wouldnt fire up but for a few sputters! after a bit of fiddling, it sounded like the engine was starved for gas, so i thought maybe the petcock was still the problem, left the tank in the ON position for a few hours to fill the carb bowls, just got back from a 5 min test drive! that was def the problem. Ill get the new gasket soon and rebuild the petcock once more, probably check/replace the spark plugs too.

The only other thing was it seemed to be idling erratically, almost dead one min, then up to 3k the next, so ill see what that might be tomorrow as well.

Petcock clean up

At the same time, I noticed the fuel flow from the petcock was kinda clogged up, also the switch was kinda hard to turn so I thought a disassembly was in order, pretty simple. And guess what?! there be metal under that grime!

More carb stuff...

So the bike has been sitting for a while again while the hot months pass on by, and I thought now would be a great time for a carb cleaning. just standard remove bowls and clean jets. One bowl was all green? I assume its tarnish from the brass jets mingled with the fuel. Right now the jets from the last 2 carbs are soaking in sea foam. If you dont know what that is, go get some NOW. It is nothing short of a mechanic in a can, one of the few carb cleaners that can claim that. Endless uses. Pictures here.