- Thu Aug 13, 2015 9:10 pm
#5410
Hello all, I'm a newbie on here and to the joys of Enfield ownership, having just bought a 2005 Electra X with a Manx GP chair on it, just to slow me down! The bike only has just over 1000 miles on it, and has stood unused for a good few years.
I got it home, had a bit of a fiddle about, and soon had her running, though she stalls a lot on choke, and won't take any throttle, until she's warm. Once warm however, the motor refuses to tick over without choke. She rides great, plenty of pull on the throttle, and accelerates and holds a steady throttle very well, all without choke, but then dies when you go to a dead throttle. Riding with the choke on cures this, but it's hardly ideal.
I guess that all this is pointing to an air leak on the inlet side somewhere and have notices some splits forming on the hard rubber inlet manifold between the carb and the head. I popped the manifold off and found that they didn't go all the way through due to the inner sleeve, but sealed them up anyway, but that hasn't changed things unfortunately. The rubber air box to carb pipe is in good order.
So where else can I look for leaks? Or is it likely to be something else entirely? I'm not familiar with how the lean-burn kit on the engine works, so is there a valve or filter in there somewhere that could be the source of the problem? All the external pipes appear to be air tight. I do plan on possibly making some improvements to the bike in future, possibly by using our host's Amal kit, but I'd rather start from the baseline of a properly running bike before I start fiddling around more.
Any advice gratefully received , Ratty
I got it home, had a bit of a fiddle about, and soon had her running, though she stalls a lot on choke, and won't take any throttle, until she's warm. Once warm however, the motor refuses to tick over without choke. She rides great, plenty of pull on the throttle, and accelerates and holds a steady throttle very well, all without choke, but then dies when you go to a dead throttle. Riding with the choke on cures this, but it's hardly ideal.
I guess that all this is pointing to an air leak on the inlet side somewhere and have notices some splits forming on the hard rubber inlet manifold between the carb and the head. I popped the manifold off and found that they didn't go all the way through due to the inner sleeve, but sealed them up anyway, but that hasn't changed things unfortunately. The rubber air box to carb pipe is in good order.
So where else can I look for leaks? Or is it likely to be something else entirely? I'm not familiar with how the lean-burn kit on the engine works, so is there a valve or filter in there somewhere that could be the source of the problem? All the external pipes appear to be air tight. I do plan on possibly making some improvements to the bike in future, possibly by using our host's Amal kit, but I'd rather start from the baseline of a properly running bike before I start fiddling around more.
Any advice gratefully received , Ratty
