Yesterday I went to a friends house and spent way too long going over my carburetors by we did them and then installed the pod filters that I had ordered. The bike sounds good but is completely gutless most likely because I've changed the air to fuel ratio and now there is too much air. A quick Google search of the problem verifies that is most likely the cause of the sluggishness. I should have prepared for this with the right jets the first time but I've never done this stuff before and my friend who was teaching me how to do a carb rebuild didn't know to expect this problem. The bike still needs a lot of work but its coming along. I almost forgot about the oil change adventure we encountered. Who ever owned the bike before me that changed the oil last messed up the but that keeps the filter cap tight. We tried getting it off with a regular wrench but couldn't get it off. It was rusty and ruined. We tried cutting a notch in the bolt so we could try and get a big flat head screw driver in there but that didn't work either. My friend Levi had a welder so he found a nut that fit over the ruined bolt and welded it to the end. This gave us the area to put on a big breaker bar and use that to get enough torque to remove the stuck bolt. It was a long day and I could hardly say it was worth it but its over now even if my bike doesn't run all that well at the moment. I also came up with a name for the bike that I think is funny. "The Racing Moose". I'll decide if I make it official as I go on.
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