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Thanks, Terry. What threw me was not knowing the Clutch Diode was a small square plugged into the harness just forward of the battery. That's all someone had to say. I thought a diode was something soldered into a circuit board - and fixing that sounded like a PITA! When I discovered (using Google image) what I was dealing with I said "OK that's easy....let's go!"...lol.....

 

Thanks Terry!


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I was surprised to find the diode on my ST1300 hiding in plain sight in one of the fuse boxes. It looked just like a fuse but with three spades not two.

 

Mine........

 

that is super helpful info, thanks Terry!

 

Ohh ohh, I was wondering what that was on the VTR250. Now I know, thanks Terry!

 

Goddam, that's a good looking bike.



Oh... Fun as fuck too.

 

Grrrr get it!! She gonna fuck up some canyon riders fo sho!

 

Beautiful Capt - and really nice composition on the photo, too!

 

Tonight was test and carb night over at my storage units.

Hooked up a fuel bottle on 2 bikes and one wouldn't even start and the other barely ran at a weak idle but stalled when given even the tiniest bit of throttle.

As I suspected - the carbs had to be pulled, which I did.

I went ahead and threw on a set I had just rebuilt and brought with me on the first one (Cold Devil's RWB '86) and it started right up!



Got the second bike's carbs off but not without some drama. One of the air filter housing screws wouldn't come out, then one of the throttle cables was very stubborn pulling out of it's bracket - and the screw holding the bracket was not budging, and then to top everything off the screw holding the choke cable bracket was a socket head - not a phillips. By this time I had sweat pouring out of my face so having to go get my allen wrenches WAS an inconvenience - but I had to just laugh it off - cause things could be worse!

But the REALLY GOOD news is I brought both carb sets home but left them OUTSIDE, so my house doesn't smell like O-dey-petrol!

 

After 3.5 more hours solid wrenching at my storage units I am beat - but happy.

Two more machines back in operation as soon as I return and re-install their fuel tanks and a new line to the FP.

One is the early RWB I got from Matt (Cold Devil) and the other another '86 that I've had for 2 years that was re-painted into a RWB tribute, complete with red wheels! I put a set of Joe Nelson carbs on that one plus an airbox from my spares.

And I had a devil of a time getting the new carbs in - lots and lots of fiddling around! The ones I put in the other bike went on fairly easy, thankfully. I did those last night. And I got that clutch lever working again.

Both of these bikes have good rubber on them so no reason for them not to be out on the road. I'm behind but catching up!

I also did the work while these were parked on their side stands. No lift table. No as easy but do-able....