Thought I was done. Took if for a test run. Idles rough. Revs and accelerates great. When I got back to the house because of the steep rise to the drive way I need to goose it to get up and into the garage. Got into the garage and the clutch wouldn't let go. It was working fine around the block but. No shutting it down. Locked the breaks and the front tire was skidding across the garage floor. I had to lay it down to get the back wheel off the ground.
Somehow the clutch line got an air bubble in it. No clutch at all. I had to bleed the line to return function. Don't know how that happened. Got ready for another test run and saw that carb #1 was spewing gasoline. So now I need to pull the carbs again to see whats going on with that.
This time I did not install the EGR valves on top of the valve covers. I just covered them with metal plates and plugged the hole in the aibox. I noticed this time that the engine had a lower noise than before. By lower I mean a more bass tone that the high pitch rattle it had when I first got it. Could it be the blocked EGR valves lowered the noise an octave?
One thing after another. I really want to get this done so I can get back to my other project.
wow.
you are seriously having some bad luck here, slow down before you hurt yourself....
insure the systems all function, and take it slow. only make ONE change at a time... test, and go further.
the reed valves you removed, are not EGR (Exhaust Gas Recycling), they are called PAIR valves, totally different in form and function...
"The Pair Valve, or "Secondary Air System" is a pollution control "Passive Air Injection" device, designed to "wash out" the purposely rich exhaust of the new metric bikes in order to pass EPA restrictions for import in the United States and other countries with similar restrictions."
when you removed them, and added plates, you need to
completely seal those plates...
or even plug the holes below them, and then add plates and seal them.
this relates to your comments on poor idle, and also lower "base" engine tone, which is due to reversion effect, and exhaust gases that prior to removing the reeds, were being completely sealed by those reeds, but now free to migrate from the vestibule they once lived in..
when you did the removal, did you completely remove the other part of that system, from the top of the engine, and also plug the vacuum line that went to it ?, (and if it is a Cali bike, the other associated pollution devices, and associated hoses)?
those things change the way the bike runs, and idles, from prior running characteristics to current reliability and qualities.
as for the carb leaking after all this... likely cause was throwing the bike down on the ground... and causing the float in the bowl, to become wedged out of position... if it wasn't leaking prior to all that....
as for the clutch bubble failure, and throwing the bike down to get it "stopped", I'm sure it was a total panic move... because you were still turning the throttle, releasing the throttle with the brakes locked, would have allowed/forced the bike to stall out by itself..
become familiar with the "RUN / OFF" switch on the right hand switch pod... it would have shut it down immediately, and saved tossing it on it's side, complicating things.
I really do feel a bit sympathetic about your experiences, but slowing down, and focusing may save your life, and that of your project, or at least save some pain.
those of us here that try to provide verbal assistance, because we'eve been doing this stuff for decades, without major pains, always stress doing accurate single changes, focused, and specific, before moving to further changes.
Trying to multitask, and work on 2 completely different bikes, and 2 different sets of building, simultaneously, is technically way to demanding, and will always result in some of the things you are seeing now.
I've done this for decades, so has SISF, and a few others here, but one thing we all share, is a meticulous methodology, never being sidetracked, and focusing intently on single objectives...
so, I suggest you limit distractions, and focus on one thing at a time.
