Adjusting fuel mixture screws, and synching questions

[JoBrCo]

As the cheerleaders shake their pom poms!



FJ Forever!   

JoBrCo

[JoBrCo]

Your take, not mine.  I only ever defend, I never offend!  And I absolutely refuse to be part of a mob.

Less "R" and more E & E will assist "S" ....you are not in enemy territory.....and there`s certainly no "Mob" thinking here. Demonstrably, Individuality does require a little of your own physical effort including sole practical risk"...give it a go, get the text efforts balanced with some shed time me thinks.

And I'm sure you are aware of how impossible it is to use the search function,

Yeah, the search function is tricky. I find a google search gets you to your destination within this forum easier most times.

Trust me, as one dealing with anxiety, high blood pressure, and borderline diabetes, I don't need the heartache, I want to live a little longer.  This getting old thing sucks big time, of course it beats the alternative.

Yeah, yeah, Big deal, but I`m with ya on the "living Longer" bit. Coincidently, getting old doesn`t suck if you make it to one of our/your rallys, anywhere.
I probably shall never make it, because obviously I'm not welcome, I would be bringing my wife if I did, because as usual, we always do adventures together, and I wouldn't want to drag her to face the twisted dramas of certain potential malcontents.  She's also a sufferer of PTSD from the age of 4, as her father let her 8 YO sister play William Tell with a 4 year old, and my wife lost an eye because of it, the apple was fine. Some people have actually made fun of her, actually firing her from her job because of it, "look at me when I talk to you," they said, more blind than she is, and I can see that some of your members would unfortunately be the type to cause problems, no fingers pointed at anyone, they know who they are.  "I come for the land down under."  Sorry but sometimes I break into song, out of the clear blue, I just love music, and I really liked, "Men at Work."  


FJ Forever!  

JoBrCo

I don`t think I can contribute much more help than you have received really, but I can say that I`ve used the colortune gadget and found it very interesting. (the guys on the XS1100 forum find it good enough.) It was however nowhere near as good as the vacuum gauges for synchronising Imho.

In my old age, I now realise that I often, previously, came close to causing people to Hang themselves....In fact I didn`t get the humour in the movie "Flying High" originally...but second time around, when it was forced on me again, it simply broke me up. (Thanks Kids!)  I have since curtailed my propensity to overdoing analytical thinking. (though it`s still not safe to be near me at the campfire!). I also find PM`s on this forum really productive and often more prudent,.... along with less gasping for breath.

Seriously looking forward to hearing results of your Manshed time. (esp the second time around)  

Thanks General, nice to see you have the ability to look past peoples differences, it would seem you are another of the more mature individuals here, I'm sure there are many more, and many on the cusp. I think it's age, and the realization that one shall die soon that wakes one up to tolerance, life's just too short to be fussing and fighting, my friend.  Though unfortunately there are those that never learn, that we are all in fact equal; if at no other time they can sense it, then surely when we return from whence we came; the miracle exhausted.

Yes I shall share with you all, right now as usual, I'm waiting on parts.  I will share this though.  Today there was a puddle of fuel under the bike, the emptying of only the fuel line, thanks to the vacuum actuated petcock, an indicator of the 30 year old float needles inability to seal due to their hardness.  Sorry about the speed, or rather the lack thereof, it's just a testament to the limited nature of my capability to progress. Trust me I'm slow but sure.

Have a good one!  Though your "Yeah, Yeah Big deal" was misinformed.  I'm telling you, I'm not your average guy, yet you's all seem to be projecting exactly that, upon me.

FJ Forever!  


JoBrCo  

[charleygofast]

As the cheerleaders shake their pom poms!



FJ Forever!   

JoBrCo

Smells like teen spirit...or something maybe not so fresh! You haven't been abandoned Jo-Bro some are just stepping back to let the shit fly and not get dirty. I sure hope you get that bike sorted out so you can post about the great times you re having riding her! As for attending future rallys, why the hell not, its really about these bikes,thats why were all here right? I'm pretty polite online only because I'm a computer newbie,but in the real world I'm pretty opinionated and can be a real asshole...or not. At least that's what my Wife tells me!                                                                                                                                                              Cheers.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Charley.

[JoBrCo]

As the cheerleaders shake their pom poms!



FJ Forever!  

JoBrCo

Smells like teen spirit...or something maybe not so fresh! You haven't been abandoned Jo-Bro some are just stepping back to let the shit fly and not get dirty. I sure hope you get that bike sorted out so you can post about the great times you re having riding her! As for attending future rallys, why the hell not, its really about these bikes,thats why were all here right? I'm pretty polite online only because I'm a computer newbie,but in the real world I'm pretty opinionated and can be a real asshole...or not. At least that's what my Wife tells me!                                                                                                                                                              Cheers.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Charley.

Well Charley, every time you open your mouth it surely brightens my day, another good man, to try and put your best foot forward.  You always seem to be positive, that's a good thing.  I can't seem to muster that strength, with any consistency.  And you're a Guitar guru to boot, and a Rush fan, IMHO, who could ask for more.  I hope you and yours are healthy, happy and wise.

I know you guys are probably going to say, "Not Again!"  But I new I was in trouble, when my wife was away for 3 years, leaving me all alone during that time, to watch the house, while she was in DC trying to save it.  Just prior to her leaving, my last friend (no longer) called one day and the first thing he asked was, "what are you doing," and I replied, "not much, just waiting to die," this was in 2009. Then while she was away, I saw this barricade of concrete and rebar, as I was driving, and felt an irresistible urge to purposely crash into it, then I started uncontrollably shaking while continuing on my way home, I had just been at the VA seeing my psychologist.  It was indeed "Angst," (Anxiety) the very definition.  Where one stands on the precipice, a sheer cliff of granite, thousands of feet high, and feels that they can easily jump off it, as they shudder at how easy it would be.  Not that they necessarily would, but then...

...one never knows.  And it scared the shit out of me.  A totally new feeling, of possibility.

But enough with the downers.
     
I'm working on it, the bike that is.  Now those that initially read it, know why I said that working on the bike is saving my life, something to live for, to loose weight and get back into shape, to rekindle my youth, if only in my mind. Those fine people here have given me much food for thought, though they don't seem aware, apparently having no faith in me, which is to be expected. How could they know me, I'm an FJOwners.com newbie.  But she'll get there, in that slow time that it takes me.  I'll keep you all abreast of my progress.  If for no other reason, so some of you can laugh.  Laughter causes endorphins to be released boosting the immune system, helping to reduce pain, prevent heart disease and diminish ANXIETY! Anyone know a good joke?

As to me and a rally, I've heard the mention of guns, the resolve of the fearful, and that doesn't mix with alcohol, or any mind altering substance.  No, I have Anxiety and therefore have a real problem trusting anyone, I'm the only one that I know is sane, and shall never purposely offend so as to cow, as if I'm a god, sheesh! When shall we ever grow up?  AGAIN, ONLY SPEAKING OF THOSE TO WHICH IT APPLIES, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE, NO FINGERS ARE BEING POINTED BY ME AT ANYONE.

We are peaceful people and don't believe that forcing anything upon anyone is the answer, only to live and let live, the golden rule reigns supreme in my book, though I've changed it a little, to address some concerns of a few well known philosophers, "Treat others as you would have them treat you, to the extent that all parties knowingly agree at the time."

PEACE my friends, you know who you are.

God damn it, I can't wait for those parts, the post office is dragging their feet again.

FJ Forever!  

JoBrCo  

[JoBrCo]

So are you people starting to believe, that you know me a little better? To me there is depth to everything, I am definitely NOT superficial.  I dive as deep as I can, so as to try and understand the universe,

"Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting through my opened mind, possessing and caressing me. Jai Guru Deva. Om; Nothings gonna change my world; Nothings gonna change my world;  Nothings gonna change my world; Nothings gonna change my world." -Beatles-

I shall accept anybody, that is likewise accepting.  We are "all," in fact, equal.

Keep on Rockin' and Ridin'

FJ Forever!   

JoBrCo

[Bill_Rockoff]

I beg to differ with the statement a few posts above.  It's NOT about the motorcycles, it's about the people.  

Jo, just for a sense of perspective: one of the people you are railing against has LITERALLY invited others of us to fly across the planet and offered to  pick us up at the airport, take us to their home where they and their families would house and feed us, loan us motorcycles, and lead us on a ride through the Snowy Mountains.  These people have LITERALLY fixed other people's motorcycles at our rallies, just to help them enjoy themselves more and thereby enjoy their enjoyment.  He and others have LITERALLY been an important part of the raising of my only child, including being responsible in some small part for his safety at times.  

I am proud to call these people are my friends, even the ones I haven't seen in a few years (but hope to see next Boone!) or have only seen once, or have not yet met in person.  

My friends here have spoon-fed you all the information you need to get your motorcycle working properly.(*)  You are welcome to stick your finger down your throat afterward, but it is wildly unrealistic to expect anybody to have any sympathy for you when you feel ill and malnourished afterward.  

The fact that nobody sides with you when you subsequently blame and rail against the people who spoon-fed you?  That doesn't indicate that we are a mob and that you are being persecuted.  It indicates that you are wrong, and that you are too wrapped up in problems of your own making to realize it.  

You might want to try adjusting your carb idle mixture screws according to the instructions as before.  THOSE INSTRUCTIONS WORK.  These motorcycles are pretty simple and durable, and the folks here have 30 years of experience solving the problems that occur in them.   There's only so much good you can do with a carburetor (a.k.a. "fuel toilet") to make an air-cooled engine from the 1980's (that is based on one from the 1970's) run well, and there is only so "well" that "running well" gets for such a bike.  But when it's running well enough that you can ride it, that's a lot of fun and it's very satisfying.  And it sounds as though you can use some fun and some satisfaction.

You might also want to talk to someone professional about other things, possibly someone with a prescription pad, because therapy and psychotropics have come a long way since "tell me about your Oedipal complex" and lithium.  Seriously, the more in-depth you go with your formatting and your fonts and indentations and quotes as you attempt to refute your own responsibilities for your predicament, the more obvious it becomes that you are making your own problems.  And similar to adjusting carburetors, you'll never achieve perfection, but you can make things  a LOT better, taking things from "dysfunctional" to "really satisfying and fun."

Good luck, man.

[The General]

I beg to differ with the statement a few posts above.  It's NOT about the motorcycles, it's about the people.  

Jo, just for a sense of perspective: one of the people you are railing against has LITERALLY invited others of us to fly across the planet and offered to  pick us up at the airport, take us to their home where they and their families would house and feed us, loan us motorcycles, and lead us on a ride through the Snowy Mountains.  These people have LITERALLY fixed other people's motorcycles at our rallies, just to help them enjoy themselves more and thereby enjoy their enjoyment.  He and others have LITERALLY been an important part of the raising of my only child, including being responsible in some small part for his safety at times.  

I am proud to call these people are my friends, even the ones I haven't seen in a few years (but hope to see next Boone!) or have only seen once, or have not yet met in person.  

My friends here have spoon-fed you all the information you need to get your motorcycle working properly.(*)  You are welcome to stick your finger down your throat afterward, but it is wildly unrealistic to expect anybody to have any sympathy for you when you feel ill and malnourished afterward.  

The fact that nobody sides with you when you subsequently blame and rail against the people who spoon-fed you?  That doesn't indicate that we are a mob and that you are being persecuted.  It indicates that you are wrong, and that you are too wrapped up in problems of your own making to realize it.  

You might want to try adjusting your carb idle mixture screws according to the instructions as before.  THOSE INSTRUCTIONS WORK.  These motorcycles are pretty simple and durable, and the folks here have 30 years of experience solving the problems that occur in them.   There's only so much good you can do with a carburetor (a.k.a. "fuel toilet") to make an air-cooled engine from the 1980's (that is based on one from the 1970's) run well, and there is only so "well" that "running well" gets for such a bike.  But when it's running well enough that you can ride it, that's a lot of fun and it's very satisfying.  And it sounds as though you can use some fun and some satisfaction.

You might also want to talk to someone professional about other things, possibly someone with a prescription pad, because therapy and psychotropics have come a long way since "tell me about your Oedipal complex" and lithium.  Seriously, the more in-depth you go with your formatting and your fonts and indentations and quotes as you attempt to refute your own responsibilities for your predicament, the more obvious it becomes that you are making your own problems.  And similar to adjusting carburetors, you'll never achieve perfection, but you can make things  a LOT better, taking things from "dysfunctional" to "really satisfying and fun."

Good luck, man.

+1 (on all of the above!)

[charleygofast]

Ok Bill you're right, it is about the people...although its the motorcycle...this one very special and unique bike that has brought us together here on this forum and in this friendly bike-chat we partake in. I have not yet met any fellow members, being fairly new and not attending any rallys yet...but I will and I'm sure it will be like seeing old friends again. I feel I've gotten to know a few of you pretty well in the 7 months I've been a member and I've gotten alot of good advice regarding my bike and for this I'm forever gratefull. Ive put alot of miles (3000 or so) on a bike that I've only owned since Feb. It hadn't run in several years and I knew very little about it, but thanks to the advice from alot of you including JoBrCo, my old girl is running like a champ and I suspect she will for as long as I'm her keeper...then my son takes over. I guess my point being, thanks, thanks everyone for the help, and the entertainment this forum has brought me. I look foreward to meeting and riding with some of you as soon as humanly possible. I just finished replacing my rear brake pads and its 80 fuckin degrees here...I'm goin for a ride!!!                                                                       Charley.                                                                                                                                              

[JoBrCo]

I beg to differ with the statement a few posts above.  It's NOT about the motorcycles, it's about the people.  

Jo, just for a sense of perspective: one of the people you are railing against has LITERALLY invited others of us to fly across the planet and offered to  pick us up at the airport, take us to their home where they and their families would house and feed us, loan us motorcycles, and lead us on a ride through the Snowy Mountains.  These people have LITERALLY fixed other people's motorcycles at our rallies, just to help them enjoy themselves more and thereby enjoy their enjoyment.  He and others have LITERALLY been an important part of the raising of my only child, including being responsible in some small part for his safety at times.  
That's all great stuff, and can see how it would in fact endear one to another, though I wouldn't murder anyone because of it. Some things are just wrong, despite a strong bonding experience.


I am proud to call these people are my friends, even the ones I haven't seen in a few years (but hope to see next Boone!) or have only seen once, or have not yet met in person.  
That's great, the way it should be.


My friends here have spoon-fed you
Woah Nelly.  You were being so factual, and showing such human compassion, for your "friends." And then you take a "pot shot" at "me," phrasing in such a way as to insinuate that I'm either a baby or an invalid, when you could have phrased it in "many" other ways. So don't wonder why I fight back, at this kind of rudeness, nastiness, and it's been this way from the "start" of all this crap.  Some of you offending me, me only defending, then another chimes in, too bothered to find out who started what, "lets pick on the new guy they think, we don't really know him, he's never given me anything, not helped me bring up my kids, laughed at my jokes, been to a rally patted me on the back, so he's expendable, an object on a screen, to take out my daily stress upon, I'll say a few nice things, so as to seem to help, then insert a knife and twist it from time to time, he's done nothing for me."  Many of them speaking to me for the very first time, with hatred in their hearts, becasue their buddy seems to think so, as Pink Floyd sang, "Us and Them, and who knows which is which and who is who." And such is the flawed human condition!  And it's I that needs the therapy and meds?  

I'll not continue point by point, I'm getting tired of correcting adults on the finer details of common courtesy.  You're just another in a great line of individuals that cares more about defending the transgressions of your friends, than to find out for yourself that they started the shit slinging.  Or is it that they can do no wrong, you, being "bought" for all they've done for you, such that anyone that defends themselves against them, is automatically wrong.  And I'm sorry to say that's mob mentality.  If any of my friends ever said anything improper to an innocent, I told them to rethink their position, I'll not cow to injustice no matter who wields it's sword.  It's called tough love, sometimes required at the risk of losing a friend, yet helping to ensure that the quality of that friendship is morally sound.  And that's a noble thing to do, for ALL!!!!  It's all inclusive, while your way only includes those that are valued, as being them that have already given you things, buying you, to look the other way when they step on another's toes. I DEFY YOU TO QUOTE MY INITIAL TRANSGRESSION, WHERE I STEPPED OUT OF LINE AND STEPPED PURPOSELY ON ANYONE'S TOES.  It can' be done because it never happened.  I'm being tread upon, by new people every day, purely due to their ignorance, by those that don't care or fail to know, that I'm merely defending myself against those that took liberties at being rude.  That's the problem with a mob, they're too busy throwing punches, to see that their beating a corpse, simply because he was walking through the wrong neighborhood. And the corpse stands not a chance in hell, trying to desperately catch it's breath.  So that is a forum Mob, those that chime in, in support of known friends, not allowing the two that it started with to work it out for themselves.  Not only are they unjustly screwing with the newbie, but also insulting their friend, by insinuating that they can't handle themselves, that they "require" help.  And that's just not the case here at all, I have "IN FACT" been nothing but respectful to those that have helped me, until an onlooker yelled "fire" where there was none, and the rest is just a pileup of misunderstanding and misconception.  Yet I shall fight to the death, against injustice, sick and tired of it.


all the information you need to get your motorcycle working properly.(*)  You are welcome to stick your finger down your throat afterward, but it is wildly unrealistic to expect anybody to have any sympathy for you when you feel ill and malnourished afterward.  

The fact that nobody sides with you when you subsequently blame and rail against the people who spoon-fed you?  That doesn't indicate that we are a mob and that you are being persecuted.  It indicates that you are wrong, and that you are too wrapped up in problems of your own making to realize it.  

You might want to try adjusting your carb idle mixture screws according to the instructions as before.  THOSE INSTRUCTIONS WORK.  These motorcycles are pretty simple and durable, and the folks here have 30 years of experience solving the problems that occur in them.   There's only so much good you can do with a carburetor (a.k.a. "fuel toilet") to make an air-cooled engine from the 1980's (that is based on one from the 1970's) run well, and there is only so "well" that "running well" gets for such a bike.

You might also want to talk to someone professional about other things, possibly someone with a prescription pad, because therapy and psychotropics have come a long way since "tell me about your Oedipal complex" and lithium.  Seriously, the more in-depth you go with your formatting and your fonts and indentations and quotes ` for your predicament, the more obvious it becomes that you are making your own problems.
Yet I had no problems until someone was rude to me for no just reason.  A bit funny, I'd say!


Good luck, man.

I would say thanks, but you've concocted a mixed pot of yeah's and neigh's.  I stand abused and confused!

[Pat Conlon]

Jo, did you get your questions answered?

[JoBrCo]

Jo, did you get your questions answered?

Why do you ask, Pat?  I shall have many more as my parts finally come in I'm sure, why, what's up?

[Pat Conlon]

Just checking in to see if you understand the info that was relayed to you.

[JoBrCo]

Just checking in to see if you understand the info that was relayed to you.

Thanks Pat, that's really nice of you, I thought you had abandoned me.  Just been busy huh?

In truth I can only proceed as the parts coming in allow, any belief that I'm incapable of understanding, or that I'm not listening to those that try and help, is purely speculation on the part of those that believe it.  Like I said originally I actually did work on aircraft, a motorcycle by comparison is relatively easy. I just really need support here and there to verify a little uncertainty, because there has been much time since those days.  Cloudy memories, fraught with holes in time.  My grandmother did die with Alzheimer's.  I'm really clear though so far, I just forget simple words for a moment, and have to rely on synonyms.

I think my carb problems was related to the float needle valves, which I'm currently waiting on.

I think much of the speculation as to my not understanding or listening is due primarily to the time it's taking me to amass enough money to buy the parts, it's indeed a slow process, they come in waves requiring a month to get the money together.  I don't have it as easy as most of you guys, and I think that's why it's hard for you's to understand, what the real problem is.

I'm sure many of you guys would have been done already.

Thanks for your concern, it's refreshing.

FJ Forever!  

JoBrCo    

[Pat Conlon]

Ok, then I'm going to put this tread to bed.

Feel free to start a new thread as new questions come up.