Daytona 900 (1996 Some Tlc)

Cam cover back on, carb balancing time!!

 

Cheers for your reply, i wanted a bike to work on and learn on, love the look of the Daytona 900 and it's history, live in Birmimgham why not

 

Great, I'll post info as soon as I get it up and running

 

I purchased these to have a go at balancing the carbs, seems the only reliable way as the vacuum generated from all three cyclinders will differ as wear won't be uniform.

 

I found some great info on YouTube on how to carry out an initial setup before connecting the vacuum dials. For me the most useful was to use a a needle or copper wire as a feeler gauge. The basic principal was to setup carb 2 (centre carb left to right) by opening up carb 1 & 2, once done then screw down carbs 1 & 2 to the same feeler gauge setting. The most important thing is that they all open and close to the same amount

 

Once I'd mechanically setup the three carbs and held up to the light, the openings are similar.

 

I installed the carbs back into the bike with the new single air filters, connected up three gauges to the three carbs and took some readings, to my suprise the bike started on second push of the button. Must appolagise for any background music heard as i like to work with 80's music in the background, I'm not fussed what kind either

 

I am no expert by a very long way and when i first heard this Daytona 900 on purchase i nearly walked away due to the rattling sound. After searching through forums it seems this is the sound they make, which comes from the clutch. One guy on a forum named it the Ducati clutch !!! I even scanned YouTube video's and mine sounds exactly the same. In terms of how well the new air filters and carb balancing it sounds ok to me. Once I've got the bike off the bench I'll do an update after some real life riding !!

 

You've not seen me huffing and puffing and looking very confused !!!

 

It's my own lack of experience, I've owned brand new Fireblades in fact the oldest bike I've had is a 2001 VFR. The engine designe must be close to 30 years old with a focus on reliability and performance. Noise and emissions were way down on the tree hugging list
Chris

 

Spongy Breaks
I thought this was an easy fix, but it turned out to be two days work !! I spent a morning bleeding the breaks with no improvement. After some help from our local Ike mechanic I split the break calapers and found this.


Looks like the rubber seals are trying to escape!!
The general condition of them were not great so ordered new seals £50 for just the front !! These were OEM's the genuine Triumph's were over £100 !!!! Just for rubber bands.

 

Ended up purchasing this break piston remover as these things weren't coming out, I nearly gave up!!


Once out they didn't look great either

 

Cheers I'll definitely do that when I come to service them, but when I pulled the front break it almost hit the handle bar grip befor o got any real pressure. I would say a couple of pistons have never moved in a long while. They were that bad had to use a vice on the extractor even to get it to turn

 

But with some patients and the dremil I managed to clean them up ok. Water had got behind the rubber seal and corrosion had displaced the seal, also I think the seals had degraded