anyways with cleaning of the lines/adding anti freeze (the resevoure was almost empty)/changing spark plugs/changing oil (did that a while back and posted about that in another thread)/cleaning and properly adjusting carbs the bike sounds smoother running. Oh and I finally adjusted and tightened my headlight so now its not pointing at the ground as much lol.
So in essance a good check of everything (including all hoses be it gas/radiator/vacuum whatever) when you buy a used bike is a good thing to do. It looks almost as if this bike never got any preventative maintenance done to it. All the lines look good though so I dont gotta worry about that stuff
. I dont think this bike has seen the light of rain until I started riding cause pfft its only water lol. I guess what amazes me is someone can make something and keep somethign so clean on the outside but do nothing with the stuff thats on the inside. The inside is what matters more than the outside. Good thing I got a service manual and a few tools along with having a mechanical liscence lol. Actually I have had to buy tools for this bike because well I have never worked on a bike before this. I bought a 18mm spark plug wrench (which the autozone worked said doesnt exist yet I pulled one right off the thing in front of him) and it didnt fit around the spark plug because the housing was to narrow for my socket to get down onto the plug. So I took my brand new socket and ground it on my grinder so I could fit it on the housing. All well I had to change the plugs and if I gotta take a $4 socket and grind it to make it work then so be it lol. Anyways I had lots o fun doing the general maintenance on my bike. I learned alot even though I wasnt able to do the valve adjustment check (which looks like a pain since I gotta remove the gas tank).
