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#Post#: 1365--------------------------------------------------
Re: water in carb
By: cloggy Date: April 30, 2016, 12:55 pm
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Been sitting in a garage for four years. When I got it it needed
a belt, a condenser, the points adjusting, the timing reset, the
ignition advance springs sorting, the tappets set, the car oil
flushing to stop the clutch slip, fuses, and a battery, oh and
new oil feed washers and subsequently the rear brake arm
adjusting correctly and the mess of misswired junk in the
headlight and binnacle stripping out and replacing [beyond me]
and the pathetic oild feed line part replacing. Peanuts but a
lot of annoyance
#Post#: 2574--------------------------------------------------
Re: water in carb
By: cloggy Date: March 15, 2019, 4:21 pm
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I'm afraid my water in carb problem persisted. I fixed it in the
end by taking apart the fuel cap and inserting rubber ring
washers on the release shaft directly abutting the cap cover.
I'll shove a fuel filter on this year too.
#Post#: 2575--------------------------------------------------
Re: water in carb
By: banquo Date: March 15, 2019, 4:38 pm
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Hi Cloggy; did the cap not have a rubber seal, or are you saying
you added another one?
Glad you got it sorted!
#Post#: 2577--------------------------------------------------
Re: water in carb
By: cloggy Date: March 15, 2019, 5:55 pm
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There was no seal on the square shaft so I took it all apart and
stretched a rubber o ring round the sqare shaft. Capillery
action had been taking any moisture on the centre of the cap
straight in. Any rain and the bike stopped. Due to the Dell Orto
having a tunnel in the base of the float bowl, any water in the
fuel gets straight into the jets, unlike Amal and Mikunis which
have a certain tolerance.
#Post#: 2579--------------------------------------------------
Re: water in carb
By: banquo Date: March 16, 2019, 6:51 am
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Interesting; living in Scotland, mine's seen a lot of rain, but
that's an issue I've been lucky enough to avoid, although not
long after I got the bike, the entire mechanism for the cap fell
off, and dropped into the tank, where some of it still resides!
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