So I bought a sportster. A sportster which had been messed with a lot. In hindsight I should not have bought it, but my lack of knowledge and experience meant I did. Rose tinted glasses? I will never make that mistake again.
Here it is:
After a few sleepless nights, feeling like I had made a huge mistake, I figured I may as well try to turn this heap into something that I wanted to ride.
I swapped out the mustang tank for a lowbrow axed tank, and went at it with some rattlecans.
Swapped the awful seat for an Old Gold Cobra seat. Installed some biltwell frisco bars which I internally wired, and sorted out the rest of the wiring at the same time. Have never been a fan of those tombstone taillights, so I swapped that too. Relocated coil,choke and ignition switch. The exhausts were some stock ones which had been completely butchered, so I got some stock ones cheap and put them on.
Enough rambling, here it is.
I'm pretty stoked with where its at. I still want to swap/hide the speedo, get a 21" wheel and shave the fork legs, but summers coming and I want to ride it, so that stuff can wait for now.
This is where I could really use some help. Its running like turd. Fouling plugs, running really rich. The mixture screw seems to make no difference to the idle, but the plugs didn't seem to get so fouled when I had the mixture screw right it.
Checked the jets, its running a 170 main and 45 slow. Got stock pipes and aftermarket air cleaner.
Any advice to help get this running right would be much appreciated!
Here it is:
After a few sleepless nights, feeling like I had made a huge mistake, I figured I may as well try to turn this heap into something that I wanted to ride.
I swapped out the mustang tank for a lowbrow axed tank, and went at it with some rattlecans.
Swapped the awful seat for an Old Gold Cobra seat. Installed some biltwell frisco bars which I internally wired, and sorted out the rest of the wiring at the same time. Have never been a fan of those tombstone taillights, so I swapped that too. Relocated coil,choke and ignition switch. The exhausts were some stock ones which had been completely butchered, so I got some stock ones cheap and put them on.
Enough rambling, here it is.
I'm pretty stoked with where its at. I still want to swap/hide the speedo, get a 21" wheel and shave the fork legs, but summers coming and I want to ride it, so that stuff can wait for now.
This is where I could really use some help. Its running like turd. Fouling plugs, running really rich. The mixture screw seems to make no difference to the idle, but the plugs didn't seem to get so fouled when I had the mixture screw right it.
Checked the jets, its running a 170 main and 45 slow. Got stock pipes and aftermarket air cleaner.
Any advice to help get this running right would be much appreciated!
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