Carbs on

Just a quick post to mention that I stripped, cleaned and fitted the carburettors today. One had a little bit of a chalky deposit inside that was similar to what I found when I cleaned Our Trike’s carbs all those weeks ago, but nowhere near as bad. I got all the fuel hose connected, including the section that goes off to the fuel pressure gauge, so bar tidying everything up, the engine is more or less ready to go.

It didn’t take long to fit the choke cables but it was a devil of a job connecting the throttle cables. The reason was that the throttle slide is held down by a very long spring that has to be held fully compressed while the cable is passed through the carburettor top, the spring, a plastic sleeve that keeps the needle located, the needle clip itself and a small hole in the slide and then pulled over to one side to lock in place. There must be a trick to it that I don’t know about 😕

I cable-tied quite a few tubes and cables before it got dark this evening and I’ll finish the job off tomorrow. I also need to remove the exhaust silencer and re-fit the engine safety cable which I fitted the wrong side of the rubber exhaust mount. Then all I need do is clean up and fit the engine air scoop and MYRO is more or less done as far as the work I can do at home in my garage is concerned.

I’ll take pics tomorrow when I’ve done all that and you can bet I’ll find something else that will need doing. But I can begin to glimpse the end of the road in the distance …. 😉