yup, thats this weekends shed time. Where are peeps preferred place to locate the fuel regulator?
with a mock up ...........
binner wrote:Where are peeps preferred place to locate the fuel regulator?
Got mine on the left inner guard of the engine bay, just where the fuel line enters the engine bay.
Looking good by the way.
^^^^looks like its the spot eh....... cheers humpty........
so the engine went in today but it's always the moment that I panic that it will all work...... we will see .......
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Very nice!
Your twincab is looking great.
I picked up a 75 Twincab, and finally have a ute to put my 11CAB plates on that I've had for over 15 years 🙂
And here's what it looked like back in the 90's
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Mate what an awesome build. Just looked through. Credit to yo.
"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends"
thanks for the props fellas, been a bit busy now at work so it kinda took a back shelf for a month or so......
and a bearing failure on my part... yippie!!! 🙁
its really taken some cash out of my account so this is def a keeper for a while to come 😵
so close to rego I can smell it, got all my gauges sorted, had to smash in a diode to stop TACH BOUNCE, got my cyl head temp dialled, oil pressure is good and now all I need to do is get the carbs dialled in and its off to rego
R E G I S T E R E D. B A M .
never again. 🙂
binner wrote:R E G I S T E R E D. B A M .
never again. 🙂
We all say that - then another tempting project comes along and we dive back in!
Congrats on the rego - I bet you have a new daily drive now.
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Well done.... Now the fun really starts.
Scottkombi wrote:binner wrote:R E G I S T E R E D. B A M .
never again. 🙂
We all say that - then another tempting project comes along and we dive back in!
Congrats on the rego - I bet you have a new daily drive now.
project .hrmmmm you don't have a Suzuki Katana you want to sell do you?
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well , now that the project is finished it's back to what I was doing years ago........ DH
got my sweet race bike back and its almost ready for its first race in Toowoomba.
I seen this down at Das Resto... very nice man 👍
credit on the build...
congrats on the rego...
hows that engine going???
now you just have to bring it down from the clouds a few inches... just a few😁
"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends"
^^^^ cheers fellas
engine is strong, with the 2 ltr box and the C35 cam it has some punch in 1st n 2nd.
still getting a tiny backfire on decelartion so I have 2 days off and pulled the engine last nite to just check it over.I do have a wee issue I found with #1 carb (air leak) so going to fix thaat and whack in some diff jets to try n fix the backfire.
The ride height, hrmmmm yeah not sure if I have the smarts to lower the front, never done it before so a lil put off by the process.Rear is fine , I'm happy to dump the rear but need some one to help me walk thru doing a front 😁
Back-fire will be exhaust leak, not jetting
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it feels as if its dumping too much fuel when you get off the gas pedal at let it roll down to idle/stop.
Ive tried to locate a an exhaust leak but havent been able to pick it up,In sayinbg that though the #1 carb when coved by my palm does not choke up and fail, it still runs as normal, It does have slight suction but not enough to foul the carb completly.....
I have always wanted to change the j pipe config and how it is connected/bolted with those crazy clamps so I may just play with that too. HELLOOOOOOOOO welder 😂
I liked the set up of the other muffler that didnt use J pipes and those worthless clamps.
POP QUIZ---------> just took the manifolds off the heads, I look down into the cylinder head ports and > BAM< like about a teaspoon of fuel just lazing about there, like a lil pond of fuel lost. Is this a nono?
well, I gave the j pipe clamps one last chance. Had to drive down the coast this morn after re-clamping ,tightening the muffler system and still getting backfire. Thats it !!......bye bye clamps I'm pulling out the TIG welder and making my own changes.
Its def coming out of the muffler and not the carbs so its gotta be the clamps...... just gotta be.
sounds like there is an issue with your carb if there is raw fuel just pooling there
Get a flange kit. Best thing you will ever do.
I( had a flanged exhaust.
Went to a clamped system - never again
Flanged joints forever
Futue te ipsum!!!
Bizarre wrote:sounds like there is an issue with your carb if there is raw fuel just pooling there
Get a flange kit. Best thing you will ever do.
I( had a flanged exhaust.
Went to a clamped system - never again
Flanged joints forever
yeah, see on my last ute I had the flange arrangement, like in the image which was sweet.... and this unit is the one with the dumb ass j pipe clamp system.
So I'm about to make mine into a flange clamp up, got the flanges already so its TIG time :-) I'm pretty much going to copy VS, weld up where the clamps go and cut/weld in flanges close to the J pipe bend.
the carbs, well yeah I'm sure it's just dumping way too much fuel in at idle time
welding was done
take that
No wonder it leaks it has more joints than a nimbin mothers meeting , get rid of the flanged joint for the rear cylinders just above the muffler too.
And check your fuel pressure as it sounds like your flooding the cylinders which will not be good on a fresh motor , ie washing all the oil of the bores .
Don't let body work get in the way of real suspension travel
OZ Towdster wrote:No wonder it leaks it has more joints than a nimbin mothers meeting , get rid of the flanged joint for the rear cylinders just above the muffler too.
And check your fuel pressure as it sounds like your flooding the cylinders which will not be good on a fresh motor , ie washing all the oil of the bores .
I did actually contemplate that after the test fit, may just do that tomorrow.
How hard is it to wrap muffler tape?...is it worth it?..After driving from the goldie to brissie the rear apron is fugging HOT! ...like cook an egg on HOT, so I was thinking about wrapping the pipes and see if that helps. Is that overboard?.
The fuel dumping is driving me crazy, checked and rechecked float level, checked and dropped fuel PSI to see if that would help but nahhhhhhh...... I have used the weber upgrade kit and I know it works a treat but just seems this engine just doesn't like it.
just what you want to do to yr missus somedays........ 😂
I just went nuts today and welded everything I could...
see attachments for verification and discussion...........
Hey Ian, how did Toowoomba downhill racing go bro?
was there anyone you know there?
TheMiniMan wrote:Hey Ian, how did Toowoomba downhill racing go bro?
was there anyone you know there?
track is cool, a few changes but overall its sweet to ride. Nearly died several times, massive bar hump over the stoopid last jump and squealed like a girl in front of crowds.... thats was fun!!
Didn't see anyone I know from old days but did see KOVARIK there and maltman apparently making a comeback of sorts.
Raced the wrong class (vets) but got 6th out of 9 I think, truly 3 years since being on a DH bike.......wow, how much you forget and how cautious you become....