pete roper Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 The trip is just over 2000km. 3 Link to comment
pete roper Posted March 11, 2021 Author Share Posted March 11, 2021 Yam 900 'Diversion' with a 1 & 1/2 DJP tacked on. I've got two mates on Grisos as my wingmen on the trip down. Link to comment
docc Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 5 hours ago, pete roper said: Yam 900 'Diversion' with a 1 & 1/2 DJP tacked on. I've got two mates on Grisos as my wingmen on the trip down. What a sight that will be! More pics! Link to comment
Lucky Phil Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 11 hours ago, pete roper said: Yam 900 'Diversion' with a 1 & 1/2 DJP tacked on. I've got two mates on Grisos as my wingmen on the trip down. So the Griso's have got a break down vehicle along for the trip then:) Ciao 2 Link to comment
pete roper Posted March 11, 2021 Author Share Posted March 11, 2021 Other way round by my reckoning. I'll take a ten year old rollerised Griso over a 23 year old, extremely boring, Yamaha any day of the week on a reliability challenge. The Yam is carbureting like shit at the moment. It needs new needles and atomisers, god knows where I'll find them! 2 Link to comment
Chuck Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 You just know your hands are going to smell bad shortly. Maybe with some running, the fresh gas will dissolve the crud in the jets? Link to comment
Lucky Phil Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 1 hour ago, pete roper said: Other way round by my reckoning. I'll take a ten year old rollerised Griso over a 23 year old, extremely boring, Yamaha any day of the week on a reliability challenge. The Yam is carbureting like shit at the moment. It needs new needles and atomisers, god knows where I'll find them! Throw a bottle of injector cleaner in the tank on the way home. Cant hurt and may help. Ciao Link to comment
pete roper Posted March 12, 2021 Author Share Posted March 12, 2021 Oh I ve run a load of carby cleaner through it. When we dropped off the float bowls one of the atomisers was lying in one of the bowls. Once that was rectified the vacuum was all over the place. We got the balance good but it's displaying the classic symptoms of worn needles and atomisers. Obviously the needles have been rattling around in the atomisers at 'Cruising' speed and the needles have a ridge and the atomisers have worn out of round so the annulus between needle and atomiser is too big so there is this point as it's just coming on to the needle where it goes all soft and woofly. Once you've ridden through it it's fine but needless to say it's at a very irritating place when you're in traffic. 1 Link to comment
Lucky Phil Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 1 hour ago, pete roper said: Oh I ve run a load of carby cleaner through it. When we dropped off the float bowls one of the atomisers was lying in one of the bowls. Once that was rectified the vacuum was all over the place. We got the balance good but it's displaying the classic symptoms of worn needles and atomisers. Obviously the needles have been rattling around in the atomisers at 'Cruising' speed and the needles have a ridge and the atomisers have worn out of round so the annulus between needle and atomiser is too big so there is this point as it's just coming on to the needle where it goes all soft and woofly. Once you've ridden through it it's fine but needless to say it's at a very irritating place when you're in traffic. Sounds like me, Irritating in traffic. Ciao 1 Link to comment
footgoose Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 wot the hell is an atomiser on a motorcycle? I know what it is on a bottle of Windex 1 1 Link to comment
pete roper Posted March 12, 2021 Author Share Posted March 12, 2021 Sometimes called the needle jet. 2 Link to comment
LowRyter Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 I had to look up Yamaha 900 Diversion on the 'net. It's a nice looking 4 cyl air cooled sport tourer. Looks like the old Seca II 600 that they used to sell over here. 1 Link to comment
pete roper Posted March 15, 2021 Author Share Posted March 15, 2021 Well sadly things didn't turn out as planned. Greg Trowelled his Griso on pea gravel at the entrance to the Clermont Roadhouse. It was one of those stupid 'Touch the front brake and go down at walking pace' accidents. Griso got a scuffed rocker cover and busted gear lever. Greg rode on in great pain to Emerald but when we got there we had to call the ambulance from the Motel. They hauled him off to A&E and kept him in overnight. Next day x-rays reveal a cracked hip socket in his pelvis! Arse. Peter rode back to Townsville to mount the recovery mission and I pressed on alone. Only problems I've encountered are one vast 'Whoopsie' from subsidence on the Gregory Development Road got the outfit airborne and when it landed it biffed one of the fork legs up through the yoke about an inch! Anyway, fixed that this morning, (And tightened the pinch bolts a bit more! They weren't as tight as I'd of liked.) that fixed that. Only other thing is it's eaten it's rear tyre! It was only about a third worn when I left. Tonight I'm in Dubbo about 1,800km into the trip and it's definitely not legal any more! It would probably get me home but 90% of all punctures occur in the last 10% of tread wear and I don't want to risk that so I'll see if I can hunt down at least a rear but hopefully a pair of hoops tomorrow morning. If I can get some that are made of industrial diamond I'll be fine with that......😆 2 Link to comment
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