My new boots from cruzinimage_co arrived at my doorstep in an amazingly short time, ordered on Monday, in my hands on the following Friday. All the way from Japan within one week.T350guy wrote:Thanks to pearljam724 for the link in his post.
I bought a set from cruzinimage_co and they were here must say fast.
I put the boots on today and they DO fit nice But the clamps are useless, they skip once you try to tighten so keep your old clamps and reuse them.
I found that getting the boots on the carbs first helped a lot. The entire carb block then slipped onto the cylinder head quite easily with a little heat from a hair dryer and some slippery stuff smeared onto the boot lips and head inlets. I thought they went on a little too easy, in fact, and was a bit concerned that they might not seal. The bands seemed to be a little too small and were a bit of a problem to get into position and tighten up, but with a lot of fiddling around with them and a little cursing, I got them all tightened up, but they don't close as much as I think they should and there's a lot of gap between where the tightening screw enters the ring flange and the blind-nut side of the ring flange. The carbs seem to be on the cylinder solidly.
When held up next to each other side-by-side and looking through the boot holes, the reproduction carb boots sent from cruisinimage_co appear to be a tiny bit thicker in material than the stockers taken off the bike. It isn't much and is barely perceptable, but it's there. I don't know if that matters, but I suspect not.
I also easily stripped several of the ring tightening screws sent with the new boots. They are fragile junk, but I had a few spares laying around from the original boots to get enough of them in to finish the job.
For a very non-mechanic such as myself, even this little job is a major undertaking, I haven't touched the bike since last Friday, putting off hooking the throttle cables back up and getting the airbox back in.
After that is done, it'll be comparatively easy job to get the bike ready for it's first fire-up since I brought it home in January 2012, just hanging the exhaust system back on, and connecting the new battery.
If it runs, I'll run over to the clerk of court and finally transfer the title, pay a little sales tax, and get my new vanity plate ...'BUFFLO', ordered for it.
