- Sun May 17, 2020 9:07 am
#90087
Well during the lock down I have been going over the bike's
Decided yesterday to get out in the back lane to try and get the carb set up, before this I had had it running in the garage and noticed the head to barrel joint was weeping,
Those of you that followed the build on YouTube will know that it's running with no head gasket the compression being held with the spigot, it has been like this for over 2000 miles with just a very fine mist nothing to worry about,
Running the motor in the garage I had noticed a bit of oil around the head joint,
What did I find? More oil than I like around the top end oil showing in the exhaust port and a oily combustion chamber along with a heavy carbon build up.
So what to do? I will clean up the head and decoke after soaking everything in ATF
Replace the high flow oil pump on the feed side with a standard flow one (wonder when our host's are going to get the British made standard pumps in) leaving the high flow pump on the scavenge side
Hopefully that little lot at a hour or so a day will get me to the end of the lock down
Off now to order up some rocker box gaskets
Take care all Dai
Decided yesterday to get out in the back lane to try and get the carb set up, before this I had had it running in the garage and noticed the head to barrel joint was weeping,
Those of you that followed the build on YouTube will know that it's running with no head gasket the compression being held with the spigot, it has been like this for over 2000 miles with just a very fine mist nothing to worry about,
Running the motor in the garage I had noticed a bit of oil around the head joint,
What did I find? More oil than I like around the top end oil showing in the exhaust port and a oily combustion chamber along with a heavy carbon build up.
So what to do? I will clean up the head and decoke after soaking everything in ATF
Replace the high flow oil pump on the feed side with a standard flow one (wonder when our host's are going to get the British made standard pumps in) leaving the high flow pump on the scavenge side
Hopefully that little lot at a hour or so a day will get me to the end of the lock down
Off now to order up some rocker box gaskets
Take care all Dai
Dyslexic sorry folks can't help that
Owner of asbo 30
Please remember most carburetor problems are electrical!
Owner of asbo 30
Please remember most carburetor problems are electrical!