Friday, November 12, 2010

More fuel madness!

And it is madness! We worked on the fuel system yet again. No fuel at carb. No voltage at pump. No voltage at relay. Jumper the relay and pump runs, but doesn't deliver fuel. It took about 3 hours to work through all of this. The fuel pump relay is bad, and why shouldn't it be, it's just sitting in the drivers footwell with its internals exposed without a case. The fuel pump from Advanced runs, but won't pull fuel. On the plus side, I was talking with a Toyota guy and he recommended using a mechanical pump. I'll check the engine to see if it has the slot to install one. If so, that would fix 2 problems at once and be cheaper!

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Welcome to the new addition: 1980 Honda 750

Yes, that's right, I traded this:

For this:


A neighbor is moving up north and did not want to move the bike with him again. It's mostly there, but not quite working. I had to pull the front brakes to push it home, as they were frozen. And I thought I was having problems getting it into neutral. Not quite as sexy as my brother's K750 he had back in high school, but the price was right.