Hey guys,
I made it to Germany after three days of driving and several stops for repairs.
Drove like a dream through England till I got to Dover. Changed the generator pulley as the other one had eaten into itself (two tabs).
Got a squeek in Belgium on the front right wheel sounds like the backing plate rubbing on the drum.
Here is the main issue though:
Drove up a hill in Germany and all of the sudden the throttle cut out and wouldn't take anymore gas.
Checked the throttle cable it was still attached. Rolled it to a flat spot down the hill and it started up again. Thought it was lack of fuel so filled tank up, drove up hill again and got past the last spot it stopped thought we solved it only for it to happen again a few hundred meters later. A guy who races busses stopped and pulled us up to the next pull off. He thought it might be the carb float or needle valve. Also found that one tire had spit out its wires through the sidewall so changed that. Started engine again and it took us all the way home along flat roads. So the next day I head off on the road for it to stumble again, but this time on flat roads. I can start it again and it'll drive fine for another 20km it so and then stumble and does not want to take the throttle again.
Took off the carb to check the float and cleaned it out, it was very clean inside had a couple small black 'pellets' in the bowl (probably from the new petrol resistant filler hose), cleaned out what I could get to and replaced the needle valve. The intake manifold was hot right below the carb so thought it's getting too much hot air from the oilbath preheater hose so disconnected and plugged this.
The fuel filter is clean only has a small black line before the filter element, but clear otherwise.
I changed the coil, checked the spark leads for ohms all same except the short one from coil to dizzy. Changed the short one, thought it might be the electronic ignition in my 205T dizzy, so replaced the whole dizzy with a working 009 (checked timing full advance at 28 BTDC).
I did all these things at the different times the engine stopped. still to no help.
I'm thinking it might be the throttle accelerator pump on the carb as it almost touches the generator, so doesn't have much room to work. Weird thing is though that once it happens I can start it right up again and it mostly drives like normal again, sometimes it won't and keeps on bogging down.
On a side note the generator (newly reconditioned) the halfmoon key has worn on the shaft and enlarged the hole in the shaft! could it have anything to do with the generator or fanbelt being too tight?
I'm a bit at a loss here as the fuel system seems to work (haven't checked the fuel pump) and the sparking seems to work.
What else can I check?
Its a single port 1600.
Thanks for reading to the end :shock:
Andy
I made it to Germany after three days of driving and several stops for repairs.
Drove like a dream through England till I got to Dover. Changed the generator pulley as the other one had eaten into itself (two tabs).
Got a squeek in Belgium on the front right wheel sounds like the backing plate rubbing on the drum.
Here is the main issue though:
Drove up a hill in Germany and all of the sudden the throttle cut out and wouldn't take anymore gas.
Checked the throttle cable it was still attached. Rolled it to a flat spot down the hill and it started up again. Thought it was lack of fuel so filled tank up, drove up hill again and got past the last spot it stopped thought we solved it only for it to happen again a few hundred meters later. A guy who races busses stopped and pulled us up to the next pull off. He thought it might be the carb float or needle valve. Also found that one tire had spit out its wires through the sidewall so changed that. Started engine again and it took us all the way home along flat roads. So the next day I head off on the road for it to stumble again, but this time on flat roads. I can start it again and it'll drive fine for another 20km it so and then stumble and does not want to take the throttle again.
Took off the carb to check the float and cleaned it out, it was very clean inside had a couple small black 'pellets' in the bowl (probably from the new petrol resistant filler hose), cleaned out what I could get to and replaced the needle valve. The intake manifold was hot right below the carb so thought it's getting too much hot air from the oilbath preheater hose so disconnected and plugged this.
The fuel filter is clean only has a small black line before the filter element, but clear otherwise.
I changed the coil, checked the spark leads for ohms all same except the short one from coil to dizzy. Changed the short one, thought it might be the electronic ignition in my 205T dizzy, so replaced the whole dizzy with a working 009 (checked timing full advance at 28 BTDC).
I did all these things at the different times the engine stopped. still to no help.
I'm thinking it might be the throttle accelerator pump on the carb as it almost touches the generator, so doesn't have much room to work. Weird thing is though that once it happens I can start it right up again and it mostly drives like normal again, sometimes it won't and keeps on bogging down.
On a side note the generator (newly reconditioned) the halfmoon key has worn on the shaft and enlarged the hole in the shaft! could it have anything to do with the generator or fanbelt being too tight?
I'm a bit at a loss here as the fuel system seems to work (haven't checked the fuel pump) and the sparking seems to work.
What else can I check?
Its a single port 1600.
Thanks for reading to the end :shock:
Andy