HOLY CRAP !!!!
HOLY CRAP !!!!
HOLY CRAP !!!!
So in a last ditch effort before I put this bike on Craigslist I decided to plug the diffuser? The baffle that screws into the spark arrester.
As mentioned in an earlier post I drilled out the end and drilled two holes through sided to side, just like shown on the Rick Ramsey CRF page.
So I temporarily covered the hole in the end with aluminum tape and put it back in the exhaust. The bike died very quickly while just idling. ??????? WTF I say to myself.
Have I been going in the wrong direction? Have I been paying attention to not enough fuel, when I should have been paying attention to something else?
So WTF, I take the whole damn diffuser out and leave the spark arrester screen in. OK.
Start it,......it runs pretty good on idle. In fact I can actually turn the idle down a bit. OK.
Ride it. ........I just start putting around get it good and warm, and I can now ride it at slow speed without stalling. It actually acts like a completely different bike. ???????? Wow. I'm definitely surprised. I do not even really understand why it's working better. But it is, and I can do slow figure 8's without stalling. I can actually just creep along with it. It's much louder, but I can deal with that.
And an hour ago I was ready to throw it away!!!!
I'm running a 48 pilot, a 120 main, and I have the stock needle with a new lower position 3rd groove with the clip in the new groove.
I admit, I don't understand what happened, or why it's running better, but I'll take it !!!!!
Any technical explanation would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Mark
Hopefully this is the end of this problem.