My Greazy Project Ultra RMK NUMBER DEUCE!!!!!

[Fosgate]

Hey! Guess what time it is?

At home recovering from surgery almost a month out of recovery. I get a FB marketplace notification that pops up. Sheeit! You see someone (For their current safety can't disclose at this time) got a look at my previous restoration and heard it fire up and instantly wanted one himself so I kept an eye out. He had found one somewhere else and bought it off images from a distance away for more than this one was advertised and it was super rough, didn't even know if it ran. still doesn't know due to his crazy busy schedule. Anyway, saw this one pop up and called him, left a message. Called the seller, sure enough just posted that morning, asked to go look at it after I drop off my wife later that day. "Well, A guy is supposed to come look at it at noon." I'm weak I know, hook line and sinker. Ok I'm on my way. I text my guy, "Hey you might be buying a sled, If it's clean I'll pay him on the spot. Pay me back, and call me." anyway, I get a few texts as I'm pulling into the guys yard. Sent video, looked it over. Not as rough as I expected or seen from other examples I have seen, hood didn't have a scratch, just sun exposure. For our purposes we didn't intend to go out and by some mint stocker. We want one we could bring back from the brink, breath some life back into it. I negotiated with the guy and paid the man. He was kind enough to bring it to my house and load it onto my trailer (lived about 5 miles away) since I was unable to lift anything from surgery. So This is what we are starting with.

 

[Fosgate]

First inspection and my walkaround after I ran it through the car wash. Plans changed since my commentary as we are looking at doing a full going through, cleaning, addressing deficiencies and making a few upgrades. And spare parts, lots of spare parts were purchased since between the two of us we now have 3 of these.

Looking it over with the prior owner.

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Looking it over after getting it home

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[Fosgate]

SLP pipes cleaned up super easy. About 30 min with a brass wire wheel on a cordless drill, rub it down with concrete/metal prep and let it sit 24hrs to eat the rest of the rust off. Rattle Can some header primer, then rattle can ceramic high temp exhaust coating. Maybe an hour total of work and they look damn near like new again.

 

[Fosgate]

Teardown starts tomorrow. About half the parts are here including a new 144x15x2 2.52 Camoplast Challenger track.
Warmed it up for a compression check 105/105/105.

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[Winshady]

Greasy!

 

[Fosgate]

Day 1 end update. Found some other minor stuff. Airbox plastic barbs, water trap, rivets in the track (I always find weird stuff). Bolt unthreaded and just balanced on the lower chain case sprocket. Had to stand on the breaker bar to get it to break loose. In that process my SLP tool bent onto the clutch and chipped a tower with a .04g chunk. Eh, we’ll use science and say close enough. Need to hit Walmart for more parts cleaner. Used all I had yesterday.

 

[Fosgate]

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[Fosgate]

End of day 1. Capped with 1 beer officer.

 

[Sheetmetalfab]

End of day 1. Capped with 1 beer officer.

Always good to have a pistol pointed towards other people.

 

[Fosgate]

Not mine. Belongs to the dummy in front. Wasn’t loaded. He just cleaned it at my bench.

 

[Fosgate]

Question of the day. Secondary spring. Is this originally white or gray?

 

[PSI 800]

I think it was white, bigger question why are there older looking Doo boggie wheels on it. thats just sacriledge lol

 

[Fosgate]

Dunno but they are aluminum and I’m thinking of polishing the crap out of them. (Add some spinners too.)

 

[Fosgate]

Thinking for both the 151 and 144 get a combo of fresh springs, weights and helix for 6,000ft plus in accordance to the SLP Pipe sheet recommendations as well as both a gray and a white secondary spring. My 151 clutching seems to be setup really weird since it takes off great but seems to give up as it reaches about 50mph track speed. tossing about a 60g weight, 19/39 gears, 66 pitch chain, blue primary spring, black secondary, unknown SLP progressive helix.

The 144 sled has same gears and chain as the 151. Same blue primary spring, gray (or white) secondary. 53g weights, unknown progressive helix.

Been a couple decades since I played with clutching and for sure jetting. Any suggestions which to start out with?

 

[PSI 800]

i think i would do the jetting first to make sure they arent lean and ready to burn down, once that is figured then dial them in with clutching. I have found over the yrs that SLP was pretty good with their suggestions for a base. snow conditions and rider weight and riding style come into play as well for clutching. Nothin like wrechin on ol' triples though. With my triple slp pipes i found that getting rid of the can and replacing it with stinger pipes really perked up the sled. Got quite a bit louder thou, nobody ever passed me or hung out on the pipe side

 

[Fosgate]

Some updates since last week. Messing around off and on. 30 min here and there. Parts coming in and going through exchanging or returning stuff that was said to fit. Helix is ok, not sure which it is though. Weights might need a little off to balance. Installed V-Force 3 reeds, rebuilt the fuel pump. Cleaned up the speedo bearing that wasn’t working and routed a new cable. Replaced the tunnel decals and polished some aluminum. Painted the bars with a satin black finish. Replaced the shocks and discovered a broken idler spacer and all 4 rubber rail bumpers need replaced. Also the idlers I bought for it came with a 1in center bearing and I need 3/4 so reached out to the seller to return. So waiting on parts again. The most time consuming from start to finish.

 

[slash]

If you need weights let me know i have a coffee can full

 

[meathooker]

It’s great to see your back at it and recovering!!!

Love the sound of a triple piped ultra.

Anyone else call them ultra-piece of **** back in the day? Lol Man they could not make it very far up the Mtn.

 

[Fosgate]

Anyone know where I can find the SLP needles for this horse?

 

[Fosgate]

Nevermind on the needles. Seems like they are a unicorn these days. Ordered ‎Mikuni J8-6FL14 instead.