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PF1 wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 11, 2020 1:15 pm

No, you can see the torques arm still fitted in the pic.

Apologies. Totally missed your annotation in the pix.

Have a local friend with a similar bike. Will ask if his has it, and/or if he knows.

That is the torque arm mount for the rear brake backing plate, or panel, as they call it.

LM, you've mentioned the FAQ being in the yellow sidebar before, but I have never seen a yellow sidebar on this forum. ???????????? Well, lookee there – a yellow sidebar. Years ago someone directed me to the 305 Forum when I was working on another CL. They led me directly to the Index Page, and I t...

LM, you've mentioned the FAQ being in the yellow sidebar before, but I have never seen a yellow sidebar on this forum.

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"I would be tempted to try it with the carbs mounted,...……. carefully! "

I just felt a shiver go down my spine. :-)

Be my luck that I'd sneeze just about the time I was carefully cracking the throttle. Now, if the choke slides were on the other side of the throttle slides, maybe.

Come to find out the Uni-Syn wouldn't work anyway. The tower for the pith ball won't clear the tank's rear mounting boss for the LH carb, so some of the other means will have to do. Will say I've never heard of the ball bearing method on a set of racked carbs. I originally used the Carb-Stix, and no...

Curious what ya'll might be using to sync the CL's carbs?

I have one of the old Uni-Syn tools from my sports car days, and used it syncing the carbs on the Kawasaki triple 2-strokes back when the earth was still hot. I may slip off the carb-to-filter runners and see how it does.