newest sled need opinion

[booblover]

Brand new carb boots. I carefully inspected the seals after install and they looked fine. I use a light coat of grease when I install seals. I find it works better than oil. I tried a new coil this morning. Now I have a new problem. Engine is full of fuel. Going to pull carbs and fuel pump before I can get back to this problem. What is the best source for fuel pump rebuild kits for the stock pump? I have a new one but it does not have the same mounting holes as the original.

[booblover]

All set. The diafram at the bottom of the pump was torn and my engine was full of fuel and my pipe had about a quart of fuel in it. Changed out the coil and it fired right up.up. two final questions.  I bought a rebuild kit for a mikuni df52 pump. It didnt have the diafram I needed, so I just made one out of one of the plastic ones from the kit.  Will it last?  Second, I have my idle screws set at about 5 turns out, and my air screws at one turn out. What are the stock settings? It idles perfectly at about 1100 rpms, and revs as it should under load. This is the strongest of my three invaders. Pretty pumped.pumped.

[Trucker]

Kick the idle up to 3000 and air screws are usually about 1 1/2 turns out. around 3 turns out for idle screws is a good base to start with and then adjust to 3000 rpm

[booblover]

Thanks. Here she is all done. Now I have to address the suspension and im all set. What would the best way to mount the seat be if someone broke the four bolts off in the seat pan?

[mswyka]

First choice would probably be to get a new seat pan from Paul.  Short of that we have used a few tricks to re-use broken seats.

The pans can be repaired by solvent welding new pan pieces to the broken area.  They cement together well using PVC cement.  Try some broken pieces separate from the seat to get the feel of it before doing the final repair.

In the back we have opted for alternate bolt locations.  After we had to cut the seat bolts to install the tunnel guards that were necessary when we studded the tracks we re-attached the back end of the seat with two bolts - one through the center of each of the hinge tabs.  If I can I will take a photo of the bolt location.  These have worked well.

I am sure that others also have creative repair approaches.

[mswyka]

Here are some photos of the 79 Intruder seat and the new bolts that we installed at the rear of the seat to replace the ones that were broken on the corners.

[mswyka]

By the way, nice looking windscreen on that sled.

[booblover]

Thanks. This sled looks awesome with the windscreen I got from you. Im going to give the tunnel a light polishing and this sled will look like its ALMOST barand new. The manufacture date makes it almost exactly 1 year and 4 months older than me. After all is said and done, I can't have it looking better than me. New Hampshire offers lifetime antique OHRV registrations, so 50 bucks got me a permanent plate, and I'm ready to go as long as this invader keeps running.

[booblover]

New question for you guys. Been putting some miles on the old invader. been running great (for the most part). I noticed that my tach needle bounces. I do not remember my other invaders doing that. Would that be the gauge or wiring. All electrical components work great. One wrinkle is that someone wired in heated grips (which don't work). wondering if thats the problem, or if I should just swap out this gauge for one that works.

[mswyka]

Can't say for sure, but if everything else is working properly i would suspect the tach.

[bryan_damone]

Check all connections at the harness Plug by the coil. A loose connection there will cause tach bouncing.

[gixxer6]

It's the tach.  I have had several tach's that were bouncy.  Each time, I replace the tach and the problem goes away.