misscrabstick

My guess with the arm would be incorrect assy by someone, or perhaps something left out, it should be possible to tighten it without tightening, as for the bottoming out, is the shock the right one? or perhaps the linkages have been assembled incorrectly./

A video would help to give any clue on the caliper.

I think with the rear suspension, you are going to need to get the bike up and remove the rear wheel, then the shock and manually push and pull the swinging arm and linkages to check for binding, what you describe could be typical of a bent piston rod in the shock.

My money would be on bad batteries, especially if they have been left flat for a long while.

The only issue I see with lay off would be fuel going off, experience tells me that you'd be ok for a good six months or so minimum with it in a fuel tank.

Or the previous owner ran it low on coolant via the bad rad and cooked the head gasket seals?

Everything ok with a genuine battery? if so I would just send this one back, anything chinese can have some very bad build quality issues and even safety issues.

First thing I would do is inspect the needle valve and float, sounds like it's flooding.

Crank bearings generally whirrr when worn as well as freeplay, tapping noises tend to be piston/smallend/bigend related.

Firstly the little hose, it's a breather hose, the holes need to be there or you will get a vacuum in the float chamber and the fuel won't come out the jets properly, you have 2 options, replace it as is but make sure you cut a nick in it to let it breathe, or run a new hose off each side down the back of the engine and just leave the ends open. Now the choke question, with this system which is basically an additional jet opened by a plunger, the initial mixture is very rich, as the engine runs it tends to lean off a bit and the revs rise usually it's time to turn it off at this point, obviously I can't say without listening if yours is excessive, but this is normal behaviour on all makes of bike using this system.

Probably do another gear oil change after a few hours of running just to get any residual contamination out of the box.

There's a huge difference between sedate clubman type use and balls out 8 foot rock steps revving and clutching, this will make a huge difference to wear levels, as for pistons and rings etc, if it rattles fix it, I do stuff like greasing linkages/bearings etc twice a year, air filter gets cleaning every ride (I run two).

If the idle went up have you considered you may have some extra air getting in somewhere? check all pipes, throttle body clips etc maybe.

When you buy a chain you have to pick one of sufficient length to fit your bike, often you will need to remove some links to tailor it to your machine, this is done with a grinder usually. You will probably want a 520 by however many links yours is, you may well have to buy longer and cut it down as mentioned.

neater than the gas gas effort.

So plug out, and bare HT end held 5mm from engine metal, kick it, if the spark can't make 5 mm then you got a problem, this is a reliable ignition indicator test.

Is it possible the hydraulic pipe from mcyl to caliper has collapsed internally?

A 12 volt system with 14 amp cable could handle 168 watts, that's way more than any headlight bulb you'd fit, so your all good.

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75:1

nanotrans for me.

If you restrict the return in anyway I would think you might have problems with oil build up in the cases, as said valve gear just needs to be wet, if it's excessively noisy then check the usual things, sloppy rocker bushings, worn rocker pads, worn lobes on the camshaft, sloppy lifter bores,worn guides and of course clearances.

There is, just not widely available, Snap on make them, I had a set once. You can bend a normal one.

Check the spark from the end of the lead to engine metal, if it can't make 5mm at least at kicking speed you have a problem, also try another plug, they can look fine out of engine but then under compression just die. Also with the plug out dribble a bit of premix into the plug hole, put the plug back in and give it a kick see if it fires at all.

Do Kelly have tech support? perhaps your unit is faulty, have you checked the output with a multimeter to eliminate a motor problem?