Ooh, shiny...
The lambda eliminators arrived Saturday morning:
So the afternoon was spent trying to fit the blanking plugs in the headers. The front went in easy but the rear was a total shit as I couldn't get into it with an Allen socket enough as tighten it, so the pipes had to come out. It was relatively easy to get to them with the shock out the way so about an hour had this done:
And 2 minutes on the bench sorted the blank:
Everything went back together pretty quickly, but then the next problem arrived. The bike really didn't want to start and spun for ages before eventually struggling into life, but then just kept dying & not wanting to take any throttle at all. By now I'm starting to think I've made it worse with the eliminators but I'm conscious that the fuel pump seems to be making funny noises: there are numerous posts on the forums of the world about pumps failing with not many miles on them so I'm wondering if that could have been the fault all along.
Left tank back off again and pump out to find that the upper filter housing (white part on the right) wasn't on right: there's 2 plastic tabs on the that are engaged into the spring clips but one clearly hadn't been quite home & the pressure from the pump had opened that side up. That would then just allow the fuel to bleed out into the tank rather than to the injectors which would not be conducive to good running.
Making sure that it's fully clicked in this time, pump went back in and this time she fired up straight away & is reacting to snap throttle opening as she should. Now I'm needing a decent day to try her out on the road to see what happens out there.
One other little job I took the chance to do this time was to change the mounting for the front inside leg of the engine bars from bolt to stud as this makes re-attaching them easier it seems.
The nut & washers take the place of the spacer that sits under the bars and it does make the job less hassle as trying to line up all the holes to put bolts in was a complete pain and now it's just the one to do.