Subject: Re: v-700 heads
Author: Ian Adkins
Date: Jul 16, 2001, 7:25 PM
Post ID: 1707517441
Bob,
Hard to say what it is. Check your grounds and be sure that your ignition
switch isn't cutting out.
By the way....to really test the starter switch turn your ignition on and
run a shunt directly from the battery to the starter solenoid. You will know
in a second if you problem lies in the switch mechanisms or the starter
solenoid.
Sounds like the bike is running well.
Regards...Ian
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Hawkes <haw-@frontiernet.net>
To: Loopfram-@topica.com <Loopfram-@topica.com>
Date: July 16, 2001 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: v-700 heads
| Ian, Thanks, you are probably right I am starting to perhaps get too finicky. Anyway, yesterday the missus and I went on a 3 hour, 100 mile cruise! It handled well with the extra poundage and it didn't skip a beat. It hauled hard on hills but then it is only a 750. It still seems to be running a |
| hot and perhaps just another, now friendly, visit to Sport Cycle for more tuning is in order. I do learn from them also. Also, at one point in the trip, about 50 miles out we stopped and then started up again. The bike started fine, even though I was prepared to pop the clutch (useful to have the missus around to help with this!). When we returned home I tried to start the bike just as a test and it didn't budge. Any ideas? Are the pistons still too new and thus too tight to give when she's hot? I have a battery in the bike that's rated for 230 cc amps and 290 cranking amps. I |
| thinking that just getting something new (maybe a Sears garden tractor battery rated at 400cc amps) would be the way to go. Best, Bob |