midrange powerloss ghost update

[clouseau]

I had adjusted it with a timing gun (6 degrees advance). Z mark centered @ 3500 like you suggested and that helped tremendously. That required me nudging the "can" counter clockwise.
So today I nudged it a bit more in the same direction and that corrected the problem. I didn't use the gun but the Z should be above the notch now. How much, I don't know. I may check that out after riding it for a few days.  I also want to monitor my gas mileage and spark plugs.

[Justin B.]

A lot of the time (at least on cars) when an engine gets up there in the mileage department the timing chain stretches enough to make precise timing with a timing light problematic.  What I (and other hot-rodders) used to do was to just start advancing timing until the engine had a bit of pinging (pinking to you guys across the pond that spell funny) then back off just enough to get the pinging to go away.  This would be the optimal timing for the engine that was being timed.  Then, we would look at the timing marks with the light and note how many degrees...  The crowd I hung with called this procedure "power-timing".

[Barry]

Glad you got it sorted in the end.

Its a good reminder to us all about getting the basics right.