Subject: RE: Cam Noise
Author: Karl Kologiski
Date: Dec 16, 2000, 7:55 PM
Post ID: 1704495194
My bike is a Ambo with timing gears, I was talking to a guy who had a V700
and he said his bike started making a racket and it turned out to be the
cam bushing. I am going to do some more investigating before I tear into
the motor. Hopefully it is something minor.
I was playing with it tonight and noticed the throttle felt funny and one
of the carbs seemed out of sink. It seemed like one of the cylinders was
trying to play catch up with the other one. It is possible that could be
the problem. If the throttle is 3/4 turned at 4-5000 rpm and the slides
are way out it could starve one of the cylinders for fuel, putting a load
on the other one. The noise going away when I accelerate the would make
sense because when I accelerate the accelerator pumps would kick in feeding
the starving cylinder. I know it sounds crazy but I have had a similar
thing happen on my BSA lighting. One of the adjusters on the throttle
cable backed off and the slide in one of the carbs would only open 1/2 way.
The ambo has the original 1 into 2 cable on it. I am going to strip the
carbs and install a duel cable system with a T3 throttle just to see what
happens. I will let everyone know how it turns out.
Jane & Karl Kologiski
Bird at the Wheel - Motorcycle Arts-
St. Petersburg, Florida
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-----Original Message-----
From: PEHA-@aol.com [SMTP:PEHA-@aol.com]
Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 5:52 PM
To: jane-@gte.net
Subject: Cam Noise
In a message dated 12/16/2000 2:47:20 PM Pacific Standard Time,
jane-@gte.net writes:
| Kind of like a loose timing chain will make noise |
Do you have Eldo or Ambo? all of the Ambo should be timing gears. Early
Eldo were gears, but later Eldo were chain. Mine made a noise somewhat as
you describe. It was an earlier Eldo with timing gears. I also suspected
fore/aft movement in the cam.