Subject: RE: On the road again.
Author: Lannis
Date: Feb 7, 2005, 6:29 PM
Post ID: 1718351327
STEVE FARRIS wrote:
| Latest Eldorado update, well after my last failed attempt to get the re-assembled Eldorado over to my house I followed the advice on the list and did the following: went through the carbs one more time, once more blew out all passages with compressed air and spray carb cleaner. replaced upper and lower throttle cables and set freeplay properly. was going to do same to chokes but switched to flip tops instead. put in smaller jets for high altitude installed Bosch 4216 platinum plugs installed and set new points, new condenser, rotor, plug shields, plug, and coil wires. made sure cutaways on VHB slides were oriented properly checked position of metering needles in slides checked all fuel lines and fuel filters for debris or bent or collapsed lines. put it all back together and she fired up and ran strong! got some help today and manhandled her out of the shop and onto the street. despite wet muddy roads, rain, and snow I drove it home. Ran fine, shifted beautifully! As soon as the weather clears I'll do some valve adjustment and fine tune the carbs and take her for a ride. Thanks to everyone on the list who helped me out over the rebuild process, especially Bruce Giller, Bob Hawke, Charlie, and Greg Bender who were extra helpful. I've got a big grin on my face tonight, she rode really nice and I should be able to get some good mileage in as soon as the weather clears. I've gotta fix up the Honda that's taking up shop space so I can sell it and then I'll be asking for more help as I tear into the Ambo. As soon as I can get my #$%^ together I will try to post some digital pix of the process. My buddy and I stood out in the cold and just stared at it for about 45 minutes this afternoon. I love this list. Steve '72 Eldorado '71 Ambo '04 Breva |
Steve -
As I was reading down the list of things you'd done and got near the
end, I was saying "It's GOT to start....it's GOT to start!" and was
glad to hear that it DID start and run good. Sounds like it's going to
be a lot of fun! Hope you do get some big miles on it.
I'm like you, except there's a friend's Kawasaki that's taking up shop
space in mine, I can't get the carbs to quit leaking even with new
floats, gaskets, and float needles, and with the needle seats swabbed
out with Qtips with carb cleaner etc. I think the needle seats are
buggered up, they're built into the carb bodies, and a new pair of carb
bodies are $800!!!! The bike wouldn't be worth that if it was running
good, so I may have to give him the bad news and let him know that the
new tires, battery, brakes, gas tank that I put on it for him are going
for naught if I can't find some solution for these stupid Keihin carbs.
Makes me appreciate Guzzis.
I love this list too!
Lannis