Ok guys I have a few questions for you all as I know for a fact you all are smarter at this them I am.
First a little back story..
A while back I got a wild hair up my a$$ and made a quick trip to Phoenix and bought the infamous Toy Junkies Long Travel Pilot. I test rode it in front of the guys house and although I was only able to get on it a short distance it felt really strong. I made the deal and hauled it home. Upon getting home where I am an additional 4000' higher in elevation I started trying to jet it in which is where I thought my problems started. It had a 39PWK on it and I run the stock carbs on all my other machines so I was basically lost. Where I finally ended up was with a 48 slow jet, 190 main and the new needle on the second groove, but it just never felt like it ran right or as strong as my other Pilot even though the plug really did look good. I finally came to the uneducated conclusion that it was the lack of an air box that was causing my jetting nightmare, It had a generic Uni filter just clamped to the back of the carb. Not long after I realized i was not ready to give up my one owner 89 that has been so dependable for the last year & half for the new impulse buy. so the new toy had to go, I tried to sell turn key, with no luck so I pulled the
Engine and a few other parts and listed it on ebay as a roller. It did sell but in typical feebay fashion, my buyer fell off the planet just as soon as he won the auction. Thanks a hell of a lot for all the hassle & ebay fees you cost me Tom Crowe from IL, may the fleas of a thousand camels invest your arm pits.
Ok fast forward a bit and i was wanting to put a
Power Bloc on my daughters Ody.
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Well the other day I desided to try the Power bloc I pulled from the Pilot on my daughters Ody. I pulled the Quik shift off and lined them both up and they looked very close so I stuck it on with 13 weights per puck. We tried it in the yard and it was extremely lazy off the line compared to the quik shift so I pulled it back apart and removed 1 weight from each puck so it was set up just like my Pilot. We then went for a ride. All of a sudden her Ody was the biggest slouch I ever rode I was riding hers and she was in the side by side, we lined up from a dead stop and drag raced and she left me like I was in reverse.
It wouldn't hardly pull past 1/4 throttle and the mid range was a joke, just like that yellow Pilot only worse. Of course I didn't want to blame the clutch and started checking everything else but came up empty. So after pulling my head out of my @ss I realized it had to be the clutch as that was the only change and it ran great before the clutch swap. So pulled it back off and this time just stuck a stock clutch on it for a comparison. Of course it runs like a champ again, so I pulled it apart and this is what I found...
I had looked on the site in the past and found a spring chart and it didn't have any mention of a Green spring, and I am sure the Power Bloc manufactures never intended there to be a piece muffler tubing shoved under the spring either.
Obviously this is why I could never get the TJ Pilot running right as it really made my daughters poor Ody run bad but, why on earth would someone do this? What would be the intended gain from sticking a spacer under the spring? Does any one know If I can just buy a spring to replace this Green one?
Thanks in advance and sorry for the long drawn out post.