XJ650 Turbo restoration

Hmm - sounds like a right pain to do.. oh well - i'll have a go never-the-less, I love swearing at the carbs..

 

Watching this thread closely, starting on a resto of my 83 Turbo veeery soon..

Ryan

 

so now I have set the carbs up and plumbed it all back in, started ok with a little choke, but now the revs build really slowly until around 4k and then its fine, between 1 -4 the revs are slow to build..

any ideas on what this could be?

 

in neutral or during cruise?

 

this is in Neutral .. I think it may be fuel starvation?

 

so I thought id ignore the starting problems for now and check the rest of the bike. Started with the exhaust, seems solid, but I only have one side. Downpipes are a little corroded, but not too bad, collector is all together and the turbo looks like its ok... except...

the oil lines have been blanked off...?????

So I wonder what sort of state its going to be in??

Now I need to find out how to re-establish these and why they aint there??

 

I've now found another XJ turbo, that I will be picking up this week.. hopefully i'll be able to build one out of both... and do something fun with the bits that are left?

 

Wow I can't imagine the state of the bearing in the turbo after running who knows how long without lubrication. Hope you can get 1 together out of the 2, you will certainly enjoy the thrill of boost when it hits!

 

well I picked it up.. here it is in all its glory..!!

 

well I swapped the turbo from the picture above and the downpipes to the new blue turbo and with a little persuasion it started!! Happy days.

Now i'll strip it down and use all the parts I have to make one bike..

 

back on this one now... its started with some help and runs .. but on closer inspection 2 downpipes are cold. I thought it might be the coil but these cylinders are not on the same coil.
I'm running it without the turbo fitted and no air filtering, so the carbs are open to air.
There is a good spark on the plugs and when I put my hand over the back of the carbs feeding the cold cylinders it starts to stall and draws fuel up into the inlet.. does anyone have an idea of what might be causing it?

cheers