shavenYak

Well, on the way home after selling at the supermarket, the car suddenly went back to normal. Steady idle, no missing, no surging.

So now I know. If a problem is too hard, just don't do anything and it will fix itself.

Will see if it continues to be good tomorrow...

was thinking about this last night. maybe try blocking off the vac hose to the brake booster if it has one. could be leaking through your booster

Nah doesn't have a booster.

What model dizzy does it use?

It's a Nippon denso.

yeah I swapped out the coil initially - no joy there.  Maybe I'll try another one

Bahhh fucking table flip. Replaced points and condenser, blew air into the idle mix hole. Still the same. Might have to give up and go to a mechanic. Any recommendations?

Hi there, if its an idle/cruise fault then i'd be looking at the idle circut in the carburettor. ( Cruise also feeds off the idle circut ) .

Remove the idle mixture screw and blow compressesd air into the hole. Refit the screw. Wind it all the way in then unwind it about 2 full turns. This should give you a rough mixture setting to start it. With the car idling ( hopefully) slowly screw the mixture screw in till it starts running rough then wind the screw out half a turn. Mixture set now and hopefully idling nicely.

Good luck

Cheers. Good info, will try that tomorrow.

Sounds like condensor issue to me. Replaced points and condensor lately?

Haven't replaced the condersor recently. I had a new spare points and condensor but they went into the damn carry haha. Might whack a new one on there see if it helps.

Having some issues with the Suzuki (3 cyl 800cc 4 stroke). Recently started idling very rough and will often die at lights etc. Also when cruising at low speed at 10% throttle it also constantly misfires.

Tested the ignition leads, one of then had very high resistance so I replaced all three, but no change. Swapped coil as well but no joy.

Thought it might be vacuum leak - sprayed some engine start around the intake and I felt like it raised the rpm, so thought I had solved it. (Was hard to tell as the idle was so irregular). Pulled the intake off (cunt of a job), slapped a new gasket on... No change.

Points look OK and I also replaced the sparkplugs as the old ones looked pretty worn.

So I'm leaning towards clogged main jet in the carb? Only idle and cruise is affected. Wot is fine, doesn't miss and has full power.

Haven't checked compression yet.

Any ideas appreciated.

I have one in Brooklyn if that's handy, also have a lead down tester thing 

Cheers Russell might hit you up for the leak down tester if I'm still scratching my head after tomorrow.

yeah that would be awesome if you could bring it into town - I've got the day off so just let me know where and when I can grab it.

thanks!

Anyone got one I can use tomorrow (wednesday) 

Car is running weird and I want to rule out BHG.

cheers

nate hasn't approved my leave, but otherwise - me

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/9597243/Sharks-close-beach-in-Coromandel

make sure to bring your shark wrestling gear

Yeah ended up talking to the guys in porirua and deciding not to bother. They're not that bad and besides he reckoned they were too small to fit in his jig. They've been at the powdercoaters now and i'm picking them up on Monday. Now I just need to find some tyres!!

Want to get one of my 12" mag wheels repaired. It must have had a bit of a curb hit or something cause it takes a lot of weights to balance it. Does anyone have any recommendations? Was going to try advanced wheel repairs in porirua.

Also, after that's done, I need someone to blast and clear coat them. Preferably a one stop shop. Come at me with suggestions.

We'll Photoshop you in there somehow

Yeah i'ma try to make this.

So I bumped into that Simon guy today at work. Quizzed him about or TV appearance and apparently it keeps getting bumped but it WILL BE SCREENING! The series will start Feb 14 2015 (how romantic) and moonshine will feature in episode 4.

I went to see the scrap man and he gave me a nudey calendar. Good trade I reckon

todays haul:  

thanks for the heads up manu!

Yeah if it's still there could you grab it for me? Keen to build something faster / hurt myself more

What a blardy great weekend!  Thanks to all who were involved in organising - Seedy for being our chauffer and doggy sam for being a great host for dirt nats.

Those of you who know me know that I love 1: Falling off bikes 2: being the center of attention while falling off bikes.  So obviously I had a great time on Saturday.

Special thanks to Ned and Keltik for being my ambulance drivers / miders / holding back my hair when I spewed etc.

and now.. here's some gore for y'all

What was the damage in the end?

Just decently skinned wrists and knuckles. Still managed to cut some laps on the dirt track today though. Will post gory photos once I'm home.

who won?