luke_mcmahon85 said:
how do you bend the sheetmetal?
I'd luv to say I had one of those brakes like locoWelder, but I don't....so I had to do it the primitive way. The sheet metal on the air cleaner housing is quite light, so I just placed a 1 1/2" pipe in my vise and kinda worked the sheet metal over it til I had reasonably smooth bends. Not perfect, but not too terrible for the little bit of time I spent on it. The chainguard isn't sheet metal. It's a hunk of cast aluminum I cut out of an old Kohler snowmobile engine shroud.
Now, about this Power King engine....So far, I'm not impressed at all. I took it for a ride tonight and had a terrible time getting it to start, and when it did finally fire up, it had almost no power. I realize it's a new engine and needs some break in, but it's ridiculously gutless. My first thought was that my airbox might be to blame....so I put the stock one on, and if anything, it was worse. Then I swapped the carb with the other new Power King engine I have sitting in a box....it showed a slight improvement, but still way dismal compared to my Dax. Moving the needle e-clip to the third slot down from the top seemed to help a wee bit, but again, not much. Tomorrow, I'm planning on putting my Dax carb on it to see if that makes any difference. I can pedal this bike up past 20 mph for short bursts with leg power alone. Using only the engine, all I can get out of it is about 10 mph.
I've checked for air leaks on the base gasket, head gasket and intake gasket and see absolutely no evidence of leakage. Yet, it does seem to feel like a lean condition (the spark plug looks awful light colored)...so possibly a crank seal problem? I dunno? Perhaps it has the wrong main jet?
Also, the engine makes a fair bit of noise from the clutch area and the clutch cover seems to get very hot compared to my Dax. I know I inspected everything under the cover when I had it apart to paint...and I did apply a wee dab of grease to the gears.
Hopefully I'll get this sorted out within a couple days because I sure look forward to riding this bike. It's probably something really simple that I'm overlooking.
Pete
PS: On the plus side, the PK clutch has a much easier pull than my Dax. Wish I could think of more pluses, but I can't
EDIT; Just thought of another plus.....the twist grip is way nicer on the PK unit and fit the handlebar without a problem. The one that came with my Dax was so tight on the handlebar that I had to sand down the handlebar in order to get the grip to twist freely on it. Also, I think the integral kill switch in the PK throttle grip is a pretty decent set up.
