Subject: RE: NOW we're cookin' !(Lannis' Carbs)
Author: guzz-@comcast.net
Date: Mar 28, 2004, 10:33 AM
Post ID: 1716418761
I mix it with my lawn mower gas.Half and half will sweeten it right up.
Ron B
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When I got the bike, it had half a tank of gas in it, left over from whenever the last owner put it in lo these many years ago. I drained it out immediately, being intelligent and knowledgable about the possible effect of old gasoline on an engine. The dumb part was that when I drained it out (checking the reserve |
| capacity at the same time), I drained it into a regular gas can. Several weeks later, after I'd done a few housekeeping things on the bike, I was looking to fire it up, realized the tank was empty, found a can of gas that had just the right amount of gas in it, and (you guessed it) poured the old gas right back into the tank. "Yes officer, of COURSE it's got fresh gas in it. I just poured it in last week". So of course when the engine tried to burn this stuff, it acted like it didn't have enough fuel to burn (which it didn't since most of the burnable part of the liquid running through the jets had evaporated away in the past months). Drained the tank and float bowls this A.M., filled it with gas straight from the pump, and put 100 lovely miles on it this evening. It runs very well and the folks who told me last year, after hearing me describe my riding style, that I would like an Eldorado were exactly right. |
| I need to make a pair of rear footpeg mounts (no such thing on the Police model with rear crashbar), and need to find a pair of baffles for the Police mufflers (probably have to adapt something from a Jap bike), and some general fooling around with it, but it's going to be on the road on a regular basis now. Thanks for the help, all. It wasn't completely wasted; I learned a lot about my carbs, how to set the timing, how the distributor works, etc. And my case can be a word of warning to those who haven't thought about how long that gas has been in the tank or what you do with it when it gets old..... Where do you dispose of old gas, anyway? I dump old engine oil by the 5-gallon can every other month into the disposal tank at my auto parts store, but I'll be they won't take gas. And which can did I put that in this time.....? Lannis =========================================================== Are you looking for savings on products you use everyday? |
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