'84 350 loss of power in the hills
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2018 9:02 am
Hey, my second post on here. A big thanks to the folks that helped me out with my first!
My '84 350 is losing a load of power in the hills. As mentioned in my first post I live in Nepal, that famously mountainous country! So this is a real pain whenever I'm out for a ride further than the local town, and pretty much takes all the enjoyment out of the ride. I'm seeing 125cc scooters nip past as I struggle up a hill in 1st or 2nd feeling like I'm doing serious damage to the bike at the same time. Then after 10-15 mins up a steep hill the bike will just often just cut out, I guess due to heat?
The bike will rev out way higher than I want to run in one gear, so I shift up and there is no power there so I'm forced to shift back down and either crawl along or rev the nuts off the engine.
I'm pretty sure the ignition timing is good. I have the Top Dead Centre tool and feeler gauge from Hitchcocks and have meticulously set it myself while the bike is static. Although I now don't use the feeler gauge. Found it idles better with a larger gap than .4mm
Brakes aren't dragging at all.
Bike starts and idles pretty much fine.
Have fitted a new RE carb and K&N replica air filter. Uprated jets as per Hitchcocks recommendations. The problem was the same before these were fitted.
Fuel flow is fine.
Advice on what the causes of this might be and how I could go about remedying them would restore the joy to my Enfield ownership!
My '84 350 is losing a load of power in the hills. As mentioned in my first post I live in Nepal, that famously mountainous country! So this is a real pain whenever I'm out for a ride further than the local town, and pretty much takes all the enjoyment out of the ride. I'm seeing 125cc scooters nip past as I struggle up a hill in 1st or 2nd feeling like I'm doing serious damage to the bike at the same time. Then after 10-15 mins up a steep hill the bike will just often just cut out, I guess due to heat?
The bike will rev out way higher than I want to run in one gear, so I shift up and there is no power there so I'm forced to shift back down and either crawl along or rev the nuts off the engine.
I'm pretty sure the ignition timing is good. I have the Top Dead Centre tool and feeler gauge from Hitchcocks and have meticulously set it myself while the bike is static. Although I now don't use the feeler gauge. Found it idles better with a larger gap than .4mm
Brakes aren't dragging at all.
Bike starts and idles pretty much fine.
Have fitted a new RE carb and K&N replica air filter. Uprated jets as per Hitchcocks recommendations. The problem was the same before these were fitted.
Fuel flow is fine.
Advice on what the causes of this might be and how I could go about remedying them would restore the joy to my Enfield ownership!