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Post by Young Burchy on Mar 27, 2010 20:44:40 GMT
Yep! Bought a set of carbs off ebay last week. Buy it Now £70 inc postage. Haven't recieved them yet as the seller didn't realise how bad they were internally. So he is stripping them right down for me, ultra-sonically cleaning them, then sending them off. I plan to see what these are like, so i'll be swapping them over, and the main jets from my current ones onto the new ones, and fingers crossed, she'll start on 4 when cold for the first time...ever...and run more reliably.
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Post by brakeline on Mar 27, 2010 20:54:19 GMT
Sounds real technical that, ufortunately its no though does clean carbs a treat. Depends on what solvent you use mind you, sorry gettin really borin now Hope they do the trick
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Post by Young Burchy on Mar 29, 2010 19:50:53 GMT
Ha, that's what I thought too when Dad emailed me at work ;D Fingers crossed, hopefully turn up and fitted before the ACE run.
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Post by brakeline on Mar 29, 2010 20:13:47 GMT
used to clean carbs in the lab in the sonic bath. Used Carbon tet as the solvent, worked great but really bad for your health, thank heavens for fume cupboards, oops gettin borin again :hides:
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Post by Burchy on Mar 29, 2010 20:34:44 GMT
Preferred trichloroetheylene myself
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Post by brakeline on Mar 29, 2010 20:39:38 GMT
Preferred trichloroetheylene myself Yeah, that was a substitute for carbon tet, but it was found to be just as bad for you. not as good a solvent mind you Rule of thumb, the best stuff is the worst for your health. Even works on bikes.
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Post by Les on Apr 4, 2010 10:22:13 GMT
saw the aforesaid items yesterday, and believe me they are very clean
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Post by Young Burchy on Apr 4, 2010 19:32:25 GMT
but not internally In fact they're a right state By the end of this afternoon, Dad and I had put the carbs on/off the 400 three times, and there isn't much room inside the 400 to play about with either. The last time we managed to get the carbs off from a complete bike inc all panels, in under 20mins But that wasn't the point of the exercise. Started last night actually, took off the original carbs, and replaced the main jets from them into the "new" set, then put it back in ready for balancing. Well it started, then didn't then did and wouldn't stop revving, then not on all four, then die - we weren't getting very far. So we took them off, and the butterflies were too far open and badly out of balance. Once adjusted, we put them back in, fired her up, straight onto all four, sounded great. Can sleep easy now and finish the job off tomorrow morning. Out with the carbtune balancer this morning, and it wouldn't run on all four, most of the time two. After some and a stand back from affairs, we realised that it was drinking plenty of fuel, so we whipped out the plugs, (which i checked y'day and were all lovely) to find them soaking wet. Double So it is off with them again, and strip them in the back garden to replace the floats and float needles from my original set to the new set. Re-insert them and still no improvement, she was flooding, in a bad way. At one stage had to drain out the excess fuel from the bottom of the airbox, easy half pint. So off again, stay with me replace everything we have put from my old set to the new set back onto the old set, and then the two diaphragms which was the original reason for buying them, and put the old set back in again. Well she started on all four, thank God, so we balanced them up, and I took her out for a short ride. Top end is fab, really flies, even with the Kerker on, bottom end is rough, too rich, the pilot adjusters deffo need a fiddle with. So we'll do that soon. She works again. I can now strip my 400 to take the carbs off, strip the carbs and put back on the bike probably all within 45mins! Amazing what you learn to do in a day So the nice shiney new set, is a internally, handy for spares though and cheaper then a set of diaphragms new from Mr K anyway Just got to set her up to run on the pilot and needle, really isn't too great right now.
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Post by brakeline on Apr 5, 2010 4:38:35 GMT
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Post by kevrex on Apr 12, 2010 0:46:36 GMT
A lot of work YB but well worth it in the end by the sounds of it and a little bit more knowledge gained, when i need my carbs cleaning i'll give you a call LOL glad you two have got it sorted
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Post by Burchy on Apr 12, 2010 7:58:42 GMT
It's not fully sorted yet, Kev, just give me a few days to tinker. Should be OK for the Ace
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Post by Young Burchy on Apr 13, 2010 19:25:54 GMT
be very satisfying when it does work, because this top end is addictive with the increased main jets and K exhaust.
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Post by brakeline on Apr 14, 2010 4:47:38 GMT
be very satisfying when it does work, because this top end is addictive with the increased main jets and K exhaust. well just ignore the bottom end, by removin the the twist grip an puttin an on off switch in its place, problem solved
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