12-05-12, 07:49 PM
It should definitely open further than you describe, (roughly 1 o'clock if not a shade more).
It sounds cable related and therefore cheap (free) to sort.
Try loosening the bottom pulley cable (the black one, under the tank on my 2002 Gen1) so it offers no resistance and see if it at least allows the top cable on the pulley to open the valve to a wider position.
You should at least know then, whether top cable is able to fulfill it's half of the bargain.
Before doing that though, I'd suggest double checking your cable adjusters.
I (really) heavily greased the threads on my cable adjusters so they turned super-freely. When tightening them, I then found it much easier to feel the increase in tension as the slack was taken up.
In my limited experience, the difference between an ok EXUP operation and a perfect one can literally come down to a quarter of a turn on the adjusters.
It sounds cable related and therefore cheap (free) to sort.
Try loosening the bottom pulley cable (the black one, under the tank on my 2002 Gen1) so it offers no resistance and see if it at least allows the top cable on the pulley to open the valve to a wider position.
You should at least know then, whether top cable is able to fulfill it's half of the bargain.
Before doing that though, I'd suggest double checking your cable adjusters.
I (really) heavily greased the threads on my cable adjusters so they turned super-freely. When tightening them, I then found it much easier to feel the increase in tension as the slack was taken up.
In my limited experience, the difference between an ok EXUP operation and a perfect one can literally come down to a quarter of a turn on the adjusters.
The fact that you can, doesn't always mean you should.
I NEVER watch Emergency Bikers for the emergencies...
I NEVER watch Emergency Bikers for the emergencies...