James,
Start with choke on,? no need to let the engine idle. By the time you have your jacket, helmet and gloves on, you should be ready to roll down the road, it's much better to warm up the engine while you are moving. The engine will warm up much faster when it is working.
Air cooled engines, especially performance engines, don't like it when air is not flowing over the heads and cylinders. You can overheat a boxer engine easily this time of year when the outside temperatures reach into the higher levels as we experienced lately.
Start the engine, roll down the road, take off choke as soon as engine warms. This should not take long....DONT LET ENGINE IDLE FOR MORE THAN A COUPLE OF MINUTES,? THEY NEED AIR FLOW OVER THE CYLINDERS !
Clutch free play should be around? quarter inch at the lever, maybe three eights at most.
On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 9:39 AM, James Marciano
<marciano@...> wrote:
Two quick questions (it's a '75, if it matters):
1. How much free clutch?play to have at the beginning?
2. How long do you let the engine warm up on the centerstand (at present, mine warms up for 5-10 minutes, and it still stalling out around 850 RPM, unless I keep my wrist on the throttle). If I just get up and go around, it warms up quickly no problem.
Thanks!
best,
James?
New Hope, PA (DO '75)
