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by Dr. Frankenstein » Sun Sep 30, 2012 8:35 am
Hi All; thanks for the ideas...
Hey, G-Man! How's it going across the pond? Is everything back to normal after everybody descended on London for the Olympics?
RE: the 'thing', no, the carb float pin is a lot thinner...this probably 4 or 5 mm in diameter, and an inch and a half long...what really worries me is it's very smooth, kind of heavy and looks and feels like it should be bathed in oil....
rrietman, no, I haven't had a 150/160 apart recently, but I DID have a CB125S engine apart recently...the only thing I put in the area where I found this, though, was the points assembly, and I don't remember taking anything like this out of there...
CliffC - yeah, really...:) Actually, I don't have the CL165, that's a friend of mine's, who coincidentally has just started to get into these older bikes because of the Dream I'm working on; but his bike has never been in my garage....so I'm still stumped, and a bit bothered...
To me, it looks like something 'clutchy', like a push-rod of some sort...I'm still open to ideas...or, heck, it might even be something unrelated to the engines, but in that case why/how it wound up on my bench is a mystery, and That is what bugs me...there should be no reason for an unrelated bit of machined metal to be found there, I (usually) keep a pretty clear bench in order to avoid situations like this...if anybody has any ideas, I'm open to it!
John