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Originally Posted by Triple Jim
Actually it matters very little for power output. The power difference you found was due to other things.
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Yes like duel carbs and duel points as compaired to a single carb and duel points.....I think.... i can't recall at the moment !
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Well, I just came in from the shop after giving the Triumph a good going over
and theres few things I am not happy with
#1 is the riders foot pegs do NOT fold up.... drag one of those and you may well be in a world of hurt !
#2 the clutch is definately slipping when I try to kick start it and that really makes it hard to start !
#3 it's too loud for my liking even though I only heard it run one time so far
because I can't get the beastie started again....
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this thing has some sort of fresh air thing on it... that is what the big plastic cap is under the seat... I don't know what it does or even why it's on there
but it's got one !
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I pulled the plugs tonight and they are black and they were wet so I flooded the poor girl ! it's got good spark so I cleaned the plugs turned it over several times and tried to start it with less choke.... never even got it to Pop
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I will say this... it is really nice to have a center stand on that bike !
LOL.....
.... I gott'a figure out why that clutch is slipping when I try to kick start it, a
full kick and most of the time only one piston goes by TDC..... and that's just wrong ! i expect that the clutch plates are just wore out !
it still moves well, but ya can't start it like that !!!!
I even made sure the clutch cable has a bit of play in it... ( it didn't)
but that didn't help at all....
I pulled in the clutch and kicked it through a few times and the clutch finally broke free and allowed the kick starter to go down without turning the engine over... like it should, but after i did that trying to start it was even worse !
it really wanted to slip then. so I gave up trying to start it and went back to cleaning.... LOL...
the P.O. put in NGK B6ES spark plugs in that bike.... and I have been trying to remember the Numbering sequence of plugs as that is either really Hot or really cold and I suspect Really cold because they were black !
....the manual says Champion N8 if i remember right ! if it's really a HOT plug that means the rings are probably shot ! UGH !
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later !
Bob.......
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