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I had a couple hours free today since is was so blasting hot and my son got sick. Too hot to do anything and too sick to go anywhere? Yippee!! Me time!!<\/p>\n
I finished producing a podcast and worked on the XR one last time.<\/p>\n
It has been giving me troubles a little trying to get it running, and it really bugged me that the manual shows a #58 main jet, but this one has no such set up. The needle jet didn\u2019t look like it was machined for a main jet. <\/p>\n
Regardless. I couldn\u2019t get it to idle and I felt like it was a float problem or something in a carb passage.<\/p>\n
I pulled the carb off and sure enough, the float seemed fine, but something had made it into the needle jet. That explains why it was not running for more than a few seconds at a time.<\/p>\n
After I blasted some carb cleaner down the jet and reassembled it, XR ran like a dream, and all I had to do was tune it. Now the idle is set and it\u2019s at least running. <\/p>\n
I also hit all the plastics with Meguiar\u2019s plastic cleaner and polish, reassembled the body, and threw on the new Motion Pro front brake cable.<\/p>\n
Took it for a couple of rips around the block, and it\u2019s finally ready to go back to Wiggin\u2019s house for his daughter (or him) to rip around on.<\/p>\n
Nothing feels better than to finally get this bike home. I\u2019ve had it for 11 months, and only got to work on it for roughly 10 hours in that time. <\/p>\n
The \u201c10 minutes here, and hour here\u201doverhaul includes:<\/em><\/u><\/p>\n I left the following undone<\/em> even though I would have done it if it were my bike: new seat cover, new chain, maybe <\/em>replace the stator cover that Wiggins or his dad JB Welded a big crack on.<\/p>\n In the end, after 10 hours and $150 in parts, this looks like a garbage kid\u2019s bike that wasn\u2019t taken care of. I would not pay full asking price on Craigslist or FB Marketplace\u2026. But you should have seen it before- and it didn\u2019t even run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had a couple hours free today since is was so blasting hot and my son got sick. Too hot to do anything and too sick to go anywhere? Yippee!! Me time!! I finished producing a podcast and worked on the XR one last time. It has been giving me troubles a little trying to… \n
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