Subject: RE: Bringing an Eldorado to life.
Author: Greg Bender
Date: Aug 12, 2005, 7:34 AM
Post ID: 1719287919
Hi Ken,
I'm glad you got it running...still plenty of time left in the riding
season to put off those other fun projects :>
Ken Smith wrote:
Hi all. I sent in the queries below in July and received some advice and insight into working on my '73 Eldorado. I have since rewired the entire bike with a loom from Gordon at MG Cycles. The bike started immediately without choking and ran fine but would only rev up to about 3000 RPM. I had disassembled cleaned and reassembled the carbs and set the timing with a timing light according to the manual. Still no luck with the 3000 RPM rev limit. I decided to look into the carbs, specifically the accelerator pumps and discovered the spring on top of the plungers! Aha! Put the springs under the plunger and restarted the bike. Same outcome. No revs above 3K. Let the bike sit for a week. Took out the pumps and held them up right in a bowl of water as they would sit in the float bowls and used a needle valve to depress the spring and then "opened" the throttle, so to speak. No fuel. Put the plunger in upside down from what I originally assembled, retest, Voila! Fuel, or rather water spurted through the jet oriface. Dried them, put them back in the carbs. Started the bike and had a short, fast high RPM test ride. All electrics work great now, except the turn signals still waiting to be mounted. Engine is strong, lots of torque, no smoking, very little blowby and no odd engine noises. Looking forward to my shakedown ride this weekend. Thanks, again, to Greg Bender, Gordon, Mark E. and all the others offering support and advice. I now have a great running Eldorado, a slumbering Ambassador, a very nice 850T3 in boxes, and a basket case, genuine police Ambassador without a tank, side covers or windshield and no compression on #2. At least I have one to ride into the winter and maybe through it, since I am in Northern California. Ciao, Ken |
Regards,
Greg Bender
1971 Ambassador
2000 Quota
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