Well I took #5 out to Gorman today for the shake down! Everything seems to be in perfect running order. I decide to try my initial jetting at a 150 Main since everyone has been saying, with a bigger bore you create more vacuum so you need to jet down. Well Gorman is right at 4000 ft. and I used to always runa 150 before the new mods there so I figured it was a good starting point. She seemed to run pretty good but at about 9000 rpm she would start to fall on her face. It woould stumble a little like a miss or something. So for the sake of science and my own tinkering enjoyment I thru in a 157.5 main, needless to say it really stumbled HARD when I got on it. So Back to a 150 I went. I probably could have gone down to a 145 and would have been alright but I didn't have the time and I was still needing some spark plug and exhaust soot time on her. Anyway, it is difficult to say how much more power I am feeling. IT has a lot more pull on the top end it feels like. I think I need to lean out another jet size to get rid of the stumble and get above 9000 rpm.

The temperature ran awesome! it stayed right around 185 degrees. I tell you what though the single best improvement on this quad is the new swingarm I picked up from Gary. One word: AWESOME!!!!![img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img] This is probably the best investment I have made so far on this quad. I was sacking a knarly whooped out trail in 4th and 5th gear ***** out and hardly felt a thing!! I wish I knew a swingarm whould have this effect a long time ago! Larry Your next!![img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img][img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img] IT was a little deciving though I think because I couldn't tell If I was having clutch sliping problems our what. So these kids pulled me over and were asking What the Heck havew you done to that thing?! I said, "WHY"? They said everytime they heard that exhaust open up they saw dirt HURLING out the back. So I quess the lack of power that I am feeling is probably getting taken out on the rocks!? LOL Well after riding for about 15 minutes around Gorman I started smelling some anti-freeze and I saw whitish green goo squirting out the top of the resevoir!!! Well to my horror 2 thoughts came to my mind! First, That darn O-ring didn't do it's job and second the head gasket has started to leak again. Well I was about to go postal again and then I remembered that I had filled the radiator totally full and I had also filled the resevoir a tiny bit above the Max level. Well, the oil in the Anti-freeze was really pissing me off but I took a hose and blew into the resevoir and blew out enough anti -freeze to get back down to the minimum level. Then I double check the radiator and mad sure the coolant was just barley below the second lip of the opening. So now I figure that the oil I hope!???? Is just the residue that was left over because the rest of the coolant looked clear. So I fired her up and went for another 10 minute ride under heavy throttle and came back and let it idle unti,l it got hot and then I looked at the level and it was still sitting at the minimum level mark! Now I hope it stays like that and I don't have any more suprises! I have one more shake down cruise scheduled for tommorow just to make sure. It has used a little bit of oil but not to much so I don't think it is getting sucked into the coolant or at least that is my hope. Anyway I should have the final word tommorow. I think that I just had the resevoir filled to high and the pressure had know where to go but out the top of the resevoir cap! More tommorow!

 

man i'm getting those nervous feeling just waiting to see what happens, i know how that feeling is hoping you have the problem fixed. well that is great to hear the swingarm is good what length did you get?

 

The 4in.