THE DAY AFTER
Yesterday I was on a high. I was so excited to get my bike started , and on the first kick no less!
That video I posted was about the best it ran yesterday. I tried a lot of things yesterday, which I’ve already mentioned and it was just a blubbering, popping, missing mess. I’m sure the problem is carburetor related because the gas fumes in the garage were so strong it just about ran me out. I pulled and cleaned the spark plugs twice and they were very sooty black and wet with gas. Finally I said , enough for today , I’ll come back to it tomorrow.
This morning my wife and I were going out in the garage to go to breakfast and as soon as I opened the garage door, I knew something was wrong. The gas fumes were horrendous. I quickly realized I had failed to close one of my petcocks and there was a puddle of gas under the bike. This photo is after it had been wiped up.
Failure number two on my part was not getting around to putting the overflow drain tubes on the carburetor bowls,
So all the gas ran directly on top of my engine case and yellowed and wrinkled the paint.
So I got busy and pulled the airboxes and carburetors and got em on my bench and broke down.
I was so careful with my assembly, I really took my time with it. All new Mikuni jets of the correct size, new brass floats from Michael Morse, butterfly shaft seals. And I did all the bench settings as accurately as possible. I’m not really sure what to look for, 2M mentioned the enrichment circuit, the choke plunger is new, everything is clean and no blockages. I will double check my float height. Other than that? I don’t know.
So I’m back to bench work. The bike is once again stripped down.
Oh and for whatever reason my sump plate has a pretty big leak. The bolts are as tight as I dare make them.
So the dance continues, one step foward , two steps back. Are we having fun yet?