TT600R renovation - Part 4 - running lean.

I was busy doing other things for a while and my garage was full, so it stayed at the Mike Wheeler's in Witney for a while (great service by the way!). Eventually they found a source for the parts and duly fitted them, turns out it had destroyed various bits of the kick start mechanism internally (ratchet wheel, kick start gear, idle gear and ratchet stop), plus they put an MOT on. While at the workshop we still felt the replacement CDI might be at fault, so they swapped it for the old one and got it to run on both, but very roughly on the original. It seems CDIs can partly fail. When we went to pick it up it was a pig to start again, but started to come back to life via a few kick backs. The clutch was also gummed up again, so I pointed it in the direction of home and the moment it fired knocked it in gear and rode off. It got me home but still wasn't right.

Half way home

Second kick start destroyed..

After a ride around I realised it was backfiring much more than it had before, plus still needed choke to start when warm, and wouldn't tick over properly. It had a hanging idle as well so I suspected something was making it lean.  Eventually, after messing about with checking the new air filter was oiled etc, I got it running and finally suspecting the inlet rubbers, sprayed easy start on them while it was running - sure enough the revs rose so I'd found the culprit, lean running due to knackered inlet rubbers. The studs for the inlet rubbers were very tight so one evening I went to warm it up to make removing them easier. One bloody big kick back and it destroyed ANOTHER kick start. Not wanting to take it to the workshop again this time round, I just decided to get on with it and take the clutch cover off myself. Sure enough, it was all pretty simple and I shouldn't have been nervous about doing it before - but it's all a learning curve.

Once the cover was off I took it apart and found it had destroyed another ratchet wheel. I called Mike Wheeler's and they said they'd been able to source TTR parts at motorcyclespareparts.eu - so this time I ordered direct and fitted myself. Great service there and an excellent source for hard to find TTR parts.