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Subject: RE: It's alive!

Author: Fred Sahms

Date: Feb 10, 2003, 5:50 AM

Post ID: 1711912147

Yes it's the first Eldo/Ambo/V700 I've had. The guy that sold me the
pile gave me a good price and I promised him I would put it back
together and not part it out. I need to send him a photo.

There's something gratifying about pulled a box off the shelf containing
new shocks I bought 2-plus years ago on Ebay, and installing them on the
bike and taking it for a ride.

After my initial ride yesterday I need to retorque the heads and reset
the valves, and then I can put on a few miles before repeating the
procedure prior to Daytona.

The motor seemed to want to pick up speed sometimes at idle. I don't
think I have a vacuum leak. Would stretched distributor advance springs
cause this (like they do on Yamaha XS650s)?
Ian Adkins wrote:
 Fred,

Congrats. Is this your first Eldo? Something about doing the work
yourself
and then seeing the thing come to life that is special. I'll look
forward to
seeing the bike.


 -----Original Message-----
From: Fred Sahms [mailto:fr-@fredsgarage.net]
Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 7:57 PM
To: Loopfram-@topica.com
Subject: It's alive!


And then the big day arrived (the instant "F" sentence when I taught
freshman composition). Painted the inside of the headers with heat
paint and bolted on the exhaust system this afternoon (using that
bitchin exhaust nut wrench), and fired up the Eldo for the first time.
It fired right up, and after setting the timing and laying on of the
Twinmax, ran like a champ. I tooled around town feeling like Elvis
until the snow chased me in. I have a few shakedown adjustments, but
overall I was impressed with how smooth and comfortable the Eldo is.
This should be fun.

73 Eldo (it runs)
78 T3/949



73 Eldo (it runs)
78 T3/949

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