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Re: HELP: Dumb Owner Trick

To: Rich Mason <rmason@ro.com>
Subject: Re: HELP: Dumb Owner Trick
From: Paul Hunt <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 18:37:48 +0000
Rich Mason wrote:
> 
> Upon reassembly - it ran OK, but not as smoothly as before.  I drove to work
> and back, and was convinced that the mixture was off a bit.  Looking at the
> jets - the rear one was much higher than the front one.  This puzzled me as
> I didn't change the jet settings when I replaced the floats, and both were
> very close before.
> 
> The present symptom is a 500 rpm swing in rpm, no matter where the throttle
> is set, and more noticeable when it warms up.  If I hold the pedal for 1500
> rpm - it will drop to 1000 rpm for a second or two, then climb back up to
> 1500 for a few seconds, then fall back down to 1000 again.  If I set the
> idle at 1000 rpm - it drops to 500 and stalls out.

Could be the over-run valves on the throttle butterflies playing up. 
But in any case you need to do a full carb adjustment (after valve
adjustment and ignition setup) before looking for any other problems.

PaulH


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