Subject: RE: Hard Starting Eldo
Author: Lannis
Date: Apr 14, 2005, 5:47 PM
Post ID: 1718704473
Patrick Hayes wrote:
Lannis wrote:
OK, Lannis, you're off base. The advanced timing does not necessarily cause a great CHUFF and whack the motor into reverse motion. |
It just seems like to me that if the motor were firing, with all the
flame fronts and stuff, that this big expansion of gas would be pushing
the piston one way or the other, and making smoke come out of somewhere,
I don't care where. Maybe it's not backfiring out the carb, but there's
GOT to be a difference between a motor that's slowly turning over with
the starter with the mixture not igniting at all, and a motor turning
over under the impetus of a burning expansion of gas in the cylinder.
Matter of fact, I thought that when an engine was turning over with the
starter, and a charge ignited in a cylinder, that is the very definition
of what happens when my engine STARTS, rather than resulting in turning
over very slowly with no noise but the grinding of the starter.....
I don't have any problem with your theory, I just can't visualize it....
When I'm standing on the off-side of the bike looking at the
distributor/timer, do I turn it clockwise or anti-clockwise to advance
the ignition? I've got a prime example of a very slow-turning Eldo out
in the shop right now I can experiment with....
Lannis