Beaver

So turns out this thing is allergic to heavy rain. At the end of the first day on last years east cape ride when the heavens opened, it kept dieing and then wouldn't start. (got it going later that night so forgot about it). Then last weekend went on a ride with some dorklanders in the rain and had issues with it cutting out. It was only during the wettest part of the tide, and then later on when it had stopped raining it ran fine. The only things (I can thing of) that are exposed to water/rain/spray are the air filter and the engine head including spark plug and HT lead. I tried riding along with the air filter off in case it was getting soaked but this didn't change anything. Pulling the HT lead off showed a bit of water on the inside of the plug socket, so at this stage I think that's the most likely culprit. its just the OG lifan one, so will try track down a better fitting/sealing one and see if that helps. Anyone thing of anything else I'm missing? The rest of the electronics are tucked up in the body of the bike and no real way to get wet (I think) but will check that. On the basis the bike has been going fine, and was going fine when I started the ride and only started crapping out in the real heavy rain, and then ran fine again after the rain stopped, suggests to be it has to be rain/water related.

@Geophy get in here

Turns out my bike is allergic to rain....guess I've got some to fix before November!

Yeh yeh yeh let's do it. Just pick a night and I'm sure there will be at least a few of us that can turn up.

Yep keen Yes please!

Also keen, get the old gang back together @Truenotch

Possibly not helpful, but I went through cert with reset leaves and blocks and general requirements (not saying this is explicit or holds true with all inspectors, but its what he told me he needed to see) was not on bumps with passengers in car, reasonable car to road clearance when on bumps (from memory he said 50mm), and not flat/cut down bumps (i.e. they needed to have some give). i was about 100 mm drop all up though. In the end I went from 2" to 1" blocks and some less cut down bump stops..

Such versatility such wow

@Sambo any idea what the timing should be on the Carby z24? Edit- herp a derp I just read your last post. 10-12 you reckon? Cheers

Well fuck a duck, has only taken me the whole of lock down to find some motivation haha. Replaced the Frost plug and have reassembled most of it. Battery is flat so need to drop onto the floor and push out of shed so I can jump start and check I didn't fuck anything up before I finish assembling front of car. Oh,and didn't do any of the other things I said I was going to do in the previous post. Just smashed it all with degreaser, problem solved.

Disesal. Didn't think about in gear with handbrake, what a retard I am.

Tips for keeping things still when torquing up crank pulley bolt on an engine that's insitu? Pulley goes on after cambelt, so could potentially jam another one of the pulleys (e.g.injector pump) and rely on cambelt to hold but not sure that's a great idea. Better to try jam flywheel via starter motor hole maybe? Access/cover plate on gbox is sandwiched between motor and gbox I'm pretty sure.

I'm up there next week. Going to tell them how much of a sissy gang the foamers are, and that they shouldn't associate themselves with such specimens. /spam

Fuck Foamers. Speedcocks rule

Hard to say for sure as I sort of just try everything all at once to get it going but yeh, would say it definitely needs some gas before it will go. That reminds me, I've been meaning to check the timing actually as it's sometimes a bit pingy under heavy load.

Any tips for checking/fixing this?

Short of replacing it and seeing if anything changes, is there a way to test?

Petrol carb motor hard to start when hot....any obvious things to check? My ute generally takes a bit of effort to start when its hot (i.e. stopping during a long drive or whatever) and takes a few goes to get to it catch. Seems to stumble a bit then cleans up quickly and runs fine (well as fine as it normally runs). Also has a slight intermittent miss under load and low rpm. Doubt its related but figured I'd throw that in the mix. Has new leads and plugs in the recent past.

This guy knows what's up.

Pretty happy how it turned out. Nothing wild but looks heeeaps better

Hi

At risk of getting bashed by the locals I'll see what I can do