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Thursday, July 28, 2011

Shovelhead - Together Again

Motormounts need tightening. Nuts on the heads barely touching.


Torque the top bolt.


Smoke the head mount bolts. I can't find a torque value for these.


Throttle cables on.


Rubberbands on.


Looks good, well crap. Try again with...


the hose clamps on the rubberbands. I have new rubber bands, but I re-used the old ones, kind of an experiment. I know I will have the carb off to check the torque on the headbolts. So I would have use the new ones the second time.



Attach the vacuum line for the VOES switch.


Bolt one of the carb support bracket.


Bolt two of the carb support bracket.


Gas line through the pigtail and to the carb inlet.


Oh crap. I forget about this. The push throttle cables needs to be routed to the outside of the rocker box oil line.


Take the cable bracket off.


Reroute. Good to go.


Adjust the throttle cables.



Air filter.


Cover.


Fresh plugs from the toolbox.


Gap at 0.040.


Plugs in.


Plug wires.


Time for gas.


It kicked off easy, but I think there is an intake leak because it dies out without throttle even when warm. Time to take the carb off and re-torque the headbolts now anyway.



Sounds like it's sucking wind.

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