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Material is still at the water jet shop. No matter.. I'm covering wings right now.

Nice work Chuck, I'm familiar with the process. I design, build, race iceboats. I appreciate you taking time out of what you really love doing and making those parts for us. SKIP

Well the seals and bushes are worth $80US or there abouts ,oil about $20 and an hours labour for both. You can probably get away without the seal driver at $30US I found. The issue I have these days isn't so much the cost but the quality of the work. Hard to find skilled people out there that do quality work. Phil

I’ve also been eye-balling my throttle linkages, poking around for causes for my idle stumble during the warm-up period in cold or warm weather. Throttle linkage shouldn’t be the cause of that symptom, but just looking things over. She purrs like a kitten and runs sweet when warmed up, but starts hard (catches, then stumbles and quits, and a quick throttle blip kills it), and then stumbles every 5-ish seconds during those first “4000 revolutions”. Didn’t used to do that, and after a couple of tune-ups last couple of springs (post winter) she runs as good or better than ever except for that initial start period. I do now keep that right side idle adjust screw most of the way out. I used to adjust it back in to where its just almost touching the fuel lever on the TB, but I’ve started just leaving it out. Shouldnt’ make a difference, and makes it easier to do TB sync next time, but its a change. My eyes must have been deceiving me, but the other day i was looking over the left side idle adjust, looking to adjust the idle just a smidge higher, and after turning the screw in a little, could have sworn i saw some daylight between the adjustment screw and the lever….. how could that be? Looked around for linkage getting snagged somewhere (was idling just around 1000rpm), then finished double checking TB sync at idle and making just a slight adjustment on the air bypass screws, then looked again and the daylight i thought i had seen on that idle adjustment was gone. Hmm. Probably seeing things. Or was something actually hung up that i cleared from messing around down there (?). By that time, it was warmed up and idling and running fine, with the stumble gone. To be clear, she’s well tuned in accordance with “decent tune-up”, and when warm is idling around 1150 (slightly high by choice), has the minor and typical stumble in the mid 3’s rpm, but otherwise runs/idles/rides sweet once warmed. Just that hard starting and stumble, where even “idle lever” all the way up may barely keep it from quitting for the few couple minutes. Not sure I should bother with all my ramblings on this little issue of my persistent idle stumble during warm up, but maybe someone has some thoughts, and writing it down helps my brain sort through things, so here you go… some tedious reading material if you’re so inclined :-> cheers

Well , you replace all your shi**y shifts w/righteous ones !

G'day folk's Fiscally I'll never be a wealthy man... Comfortable - oh yeah! But.... Thanks to motorcycling and the memories, plus the ones to come.... I am and will be wealthy beyond any measure! Cheers Ps such is the overwhelming passion we feel the need to share it amongst ourselves.....for no one else understands!! Ride /live/love and be happy Cheers Guzzler Pps maybe I shouldn't post after 4 x glasses of shiraz...

If you are in the least bit of doubt about your abilities , take them to a reputable shop .

I had mine done recently by the local WP performance center, which fortunately is only a half hour away. For less than $400 they came back renewed, bushings, seals, cleaned, and hydroblasted. They look nearly new, and they were criminally stained when I took them in. I looked into refurbishing them myself, but I didn't want that particular educational experience at that price, and they needed to be cleaned up better than I could do myself.

I’m now in the queue for one.

That's all it took??? Lightweights... 🤣👍 Great rant, Brotha.

fixed the problem!! i poorly worded the question, i was looking for alternate ways to get a reading off of the TPS, as i dont yet have one of those casper harnesses and am very green when it comes to electrics. After a lot of if messing about i finally stuck some guitar string into the connection and with a combo of clamps was able to get a proper reading on the mulitmeter. the setting was at 14 mv when i finally got it working. Then after much more fiddling i got it to the magical 157. put it all back together and the bike is now starting and idling much better. i'm now firmly of the mind if its stupid but it works, its not stupid. next up is waiting for the connector cables to have a look at the fuelling.

Ha ha I should have known they'd become a big deal in my life when as a kid I'd pedal like buggery on my treadlie ( bicycle ) then stop and enjoy the sensation of speed with no effort ( for a brief moment )! It was a long wait till age 17 and my first motorcycle..... Jeez was it that long ago? Cheers Guzzler Ps wow I'd have loved a bike at 13 mate, my folks were not all that chuffed with the idea of them but thankfully didn't stand in the way of me getting one when I could afford it.

As a kid I was always pretty impressed with amusement park rides, but they were always too short. My dad built me a lovely minibike when I was around 13, and I quickly realized that I could own the amusement park ride and that I got to say when it ended. I can't figure why everyone doesn't have a motorcycle or two but that and the good people in my life, sure make me feel lucky.

No. 382 here. Newly acquired, she is now home in WA state. She needs attention,pictures later.

Thanks to the responses above + Google + YouTube I was able to see that by carefully inserting a very small screwdriver behind the clip I could work it out just enough to slip a second screwdriver (both flatheads) underneath and work the clip up and out of the groove. No issues once you understand the process. Hope this is able to help someone else save some time if they undertake the same project.