Tango

A bad earth somewhere?

Actually, Bob, I've just checked and it has Keihin carbs on it! CV's. I'm hoping that the problem is just the float height and I don't have to remove the carbs again, as they're an arse to remove and refit!

Do you have a diagram of the carbs Bob? I've been using the Haynes manual, but it's not the most detailed! From what I could see, the float needles have a rubber/viton tip, which seats onto a machined seat? There was no sign of an o-ring in there from what I could see. The kits did have an o-ring of sorts in them, that I couldn't find a home for, these were not normal o-rings, but elongated, like if you stacked several o-rings on top of one another.

Congratulations mate.

They are Mikuni's Bob, but I've fitted a carb rebuild kit to both, so they have new float needles. I operated the floats with the float bowls off to make sure that the fuel flow stops when I lift the floats, and that all seems to work OK. The floats themselves appear to be ok too. The float needles seem to move ok too, without sticking, so I'll put the float bowls back on and put some tubing on the float drains and see what level the fuel goes to.

Took Mandy's car in for its service today, and did our weekly shopping. I think that the weekend will involve trying to sort the carbs out on her bike. I got it started last weekend, but had fuel pissing out of the carb overflow pipe, so I need to faff about with the float heights. I did check the heights against the settings in the manual before I put them back together, but it looks like more work is needed. Mandy got some clear tubing from work, so I'll put the float bowls back on and check the levels with fuel in the system.

Anyone we know?

I don’t know, Pete. But, going by your statement it'll be a Honda with the 5 year warranty!

It's a Chinky! I knew it would happen eventually!

And now......some symphonic rock!

Another South Wales band!

A bit more Budgie!

Joe with hair!

I thought it was the average mental age of the members?