For a service manual try K & N Cycles . Web page
is www.knmotorcycles.com Phone
# 918-446-6657 Tell them you are a VMOA member to get the discount. Cost
delivered to you should be around $38.
Tony
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 10:59 AM
Subject: The razor is still at my
wrist...
Status update:
First, thanks for those of you with
suggestions - hell, Don called and
worked with me (which I know must test
his patience :-) - thanks Don - if I
were a women, I'd talk about knight in
shining armor and all - instead I'll
just scratch myself and offer you a
beer....
Here's what I've done so far:
Drained the oil....nice
and clean
Took down the oil pan - little bit of flakes - nothing major -
enough to
dust the tip of a finger
Took off right side cover - tried to
turn crank with socket - notta - won't
budge a microinch.
Dis-engaged
the started from the flywheel and tested it - spun no problem.
I can turn
the rear wheel by hand with what-ever-the-hell that wheel
directly behind
the crank shaft on the right side is called.
I looked up underneath on the
bottom end of the engine - looks perfect -
nothing is broken, cracked or
anything.
Took the plug out - little hot (because I STILL haven't fixed my
carb
problem) but no mechanical damage.
Looked down into the cylinder as
best I could and didn't see anything
unusual.
I'm trying to figure
out where the timing chain resides on the top...I can
see it from the
bottom - but barely - but looks nominal.
And here's the actual
events (re-created for TV) of the deal.....
Battery has been a pain in
the ass since the day I got it...needs
re-charging on occasion.....
I go
into work in the morning - running no problems.
Coming home, right as I
leave the office - it acts like it's running out of
gas - that hesistation
kinda of thing.
I get up the road and it dies - completely....can't get
console lights on
etc. completely dead.
Tow it home, charge the
battery - which took a large drain on the charger -
and it starts to
crank......
Acts like it's going to start, then goes *CLANG* - not a
backfire, but a
metal on metal sound...even my wife says "that didn't sound
good".
Then on out, nothing will budge - new battery - fully charged
overnight -
just clicks.
That's the deal.
Here's the other
thing, I've worked on car engines as a kid and know my way
around them, but
I have no manual for this guy. So, I'm guessing at most of
what I'm
doing - a long time ago, Bob or Ted had told me on a ride where I
could get
one of these manuals- I'd love to know that again.
Last deal, and this
may sound desparate....but if this is a major repair,
I'd rather look at
dumping a little extra $$ and getting something a little
special like that
PCW 1500 or
something?
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