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I think I found my least favorite thing about bikes

Discussion in 'Hangout Lounge' started by JPaganel, Jun 9, 2015.

  1. JPaganel

    JPaganel Well-Known Member

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    The damn carb floats.

    This thing with bowls, tubes, filling with gas, draining gas, spilling gas all over everywhere...

    Seriously, what moron came up with this process? An adjustment that can only be made blind, all measuring done after the fact and a bunch of steps...

    It's almost enough to drive a man to build a FI conversion.

    The really awesome thing is that the manual says that float height needs to be measured ON THE BIKE. I want to know if the guy who wrote that actually tried it. In fact, scratch that. I want to find that guy and make him do it that way. Pulling and reinstalling carbs for every adjustment.

    o_O
     
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    k-moe Pie, Bacon, Bourbon. Moderator Premium Member

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    Build a stand for the carbs. They just need to be level in both planes.

    My least favorite thing about bikes is replacing tires every 10,000 miles.
     
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  3. JPaganel

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    I did. It's still annoying.
     
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    k-moe Pie, Bacon, Bourbon. Moderator Premium Member

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    If you want annoying, rebuild and tune a Rochester Quadrajet. Be sure to shave your arm hair and eyebrows off first, or the carb will do it for you. For bonus points; work on the electronicaly controlled version.
     
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    Toomanybikes Well-Known Member

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    And just as annoying Solex carbs on an MG
    Best is Holley with external adjustment
     
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    MattiThundrrr Not a guru

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    ...and it is all still way more simple than a fuel injection conversion. otherwise everyone that had to go back to "THE CHURCH" again and again would have made the switch.
     
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    I actually used to have a Q-jet on my old van. They are pretty nice carbs when they work (and after you yank the stupid automatic choke off and put a cable on)

    I've been playing with some ideas for a FI conversion simpler than the usual ones. Maybe once I get some expendable cash I'll give it a whirl.
     
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    k-moe Pie, Bacon, Bourbon. Moderator Premium Member

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    They are excelent carbs when they work.
     
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    And it looks like I managed to get them set.
     
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    BaldWonder Innocent Bystander

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    I think I prefer actual burn over razor burn.
     
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