Sunday, 5 June 2011

It lives :)

I never stop being extremely statisfied when a motor i've rebuilt starts.  Even more so with this bike, as it is the first 4 stroke i've ever touched with a spanner, let alone rebuilt and tuned.

I bypassed the pump and it turned out to be sticking floats, 2 & 3 were stuck but no real reason for them to be, as soon as i tapped them they came free. No4 was intermittently sticking when i put the float bowl on, so i swapped that with a spare and cleaned the needle sides with 1200 wet n dry then cleaned out the brass tube it slides in and that seems to have sorted it.  The needle valves have little plungers on top of them and one had jammed/stuck.  I'd also filled one of the ram air tubes with fuel too.

I'll def have to check the floats again before i start it next time, make sure they aren't going to be an issue.

So anyway, for me quite exciting for everyone else a pretty boring video:



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2 comments:

  1. Bill12 June 2011 at 00:47

    hi phil, your video won't run! says private viewing, may have to check the setting....
    fired up my bike too! will have to post my vid soon too

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  2. Phil Belenkin12 June 2011 at 20:54

    ah, it worked for me because i was logged in! I've changed the settings, thanks for pointing that out.

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