It was on the 750; I finally figured it out, I had put the cables on in the wrong order so my A cable was too tightly adjusted for the B cable to go on. Took the A cable off, put the B cable on and snugged it down, then installed the A cable and adjusted it again. Problem solved.
I have now, however, increased the number of times I've been to urgent care for automotive-related reasons to 6. While working on the bike, I let it rock forward on the center stand... and promptly dropped the swingaxle on my hand. By the way, that hurts like a illegitimate son of a frigging strumpet dame! I didn't think about it at the time, it tingled a bit but I still had mobility, but over the course of an hour I lost a lot of that mobility and it started hurting more and more, so I called it a day, packed up, and drove myself to urgent care to get it X-rayed. $50 lighter, my hand is not broken, or fractured, just severely abused. I have a light muscle relaxant and a painkiller for tonight. I managed to get the airbox on and everything else assembled before I left; I started it when I got back. It won't stay running without the choke engaged at least 1/4 of the way. Following my own advice, and having disturbed the intake tract today. I grabbed the can of starting fluid, spritzing it around all the joints. No change in the idle, so I'm fairly confident I have no glaring vacuum leaks. I can also get it to keep idling if I crack the throttle a little bit (whoo for fresh, taut cables, no massive slop before it finally opens). I'm guessing at this point that it's a matter of without the air filter the idle was way high, so someone cranked it down lower (thus, if I crack the throttles, it idles perfectly smoothly). So I think tomorrow AM, assuming my hand feels better, I will go about trying to adjust the idle back up (without choke it bobbles down there around 500 RPM for 10s or so before dying) and see if that fixes it. -Kurt On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:20 PM, surfswab <[email protected]> wrote: > Is this on your 750 or the 650? Are you sure you don't have 'em > bassackwards? > > On the 750, one is supposed to be shorter than the other -- the tube > the actual cable rides in, anyway. The cables themselves appear to be > equal length. > > Don't remember which is which. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en.
