Techno (97) Engine Problem

[nevilletanner]

hello, well i picked up the techno and on saturday took it out and noticed a few problems.

First of all the clutch is draging really bad,

so yesterday i striped the clutch down and removed all the glue and smoothed the tangs on the outer edge of the friction plates, refitted and filled up with ATF.

its still draging but not as bad as before so next stage will be replace the clutch fluid and bleed the system.

(how hard should the clutch lever be to operate, currently its a one finger job to pull it back IE extremely easy, is this right ?)

if this doesnt work ?

second fault, this one is a bit more wierd as there are several things happening :-

kickstart kicks back viciously

engine has run backwards after a bad kickback through the kick start (several times)

when the engine is running below half throttle is feels fine maybe lacking power though, over half throttle the engine bogs down ( as if the choke was left on )

i suspect it could be the timing so possibly the drift key ? and other idears ?

Thanks.

*** UPDATE ***

this afternoon i managed to bleed the clutch (a bit of plastic pipe connected to a syringe, draw on the syringe via bleed nipple and hey presto 2 mins later), clutch is no longer a issue.

took the bike up the mountain and a couldnt fault it, i did notice that the engine seemed alot more powerful after a good blast along a track in 5th and then seemed to bog down again 5 mins later.

Edited February 8, 2010 by nevilletanner

[b40rt]

Sounds like timing, check woodruff key at same time.

[stork955]

Gday, further to the above, clean the exhaust system as well. It will need it at that age. Performance will sparkle afterwards.

Cheers,

Stork

[matt_urban]

change the plug also if it bogs down at slow speed it could be pug or timing or both