and on the first day of christmas my true love gave to me...

What tosser fitted this 3/8th oil pipe to the petcock

She cut out on me on the road two days ago and I thought , haha this is why she won't start hot! So pull the fuel pipe at carb and plenty of gas! Hmmmm, so its electrics... yes I remember I had the lights on at the time. Check the wiring, the brake light dont work when lights off, ha this is it. But no I had wired it up to lights not the ignition. 

So yesterday when Pete came round and we are fucking trying starts and get her warmed up a few times. I notice this. When she gets hot the top fuel pipe bends and kinks in two and cuts off the fuel supply. A Voila!

I had used a piece of 3/8th oil pipe from the new petcock because it had this huge outlet fitting so this 'Made for fuel' 5/16th supply pipe was fitted.

 Pete gave me this tip - use silicon sealant (mine was for windows) on your zorst gasket - it worked too!

Peter has lived a round the corner from me for years and we have never met until he heard about my bike. Pete has a '79 1200 shov stroked to 1340 and has experienced shovel trouble too...

Christine fired up all by herself - whoa... spooky...

Having got her to fire up from cold, switched off and I pushed her into the street.

I was just tapping the kicker for compression and... she fired... and the kicker went down all on its own while I stood and looked in amazement... scary stuff...

and finally I really thought that this bitch of a carb was gonna go on the bay of fools in the new year

 cos I just could not tune it by the book using a variety of smaller jets and my leg is hurting.

We are now back to using .29 /.70 jets and I may have finally found a start routine for hot and cold that is not by the book. I now realise she is not running rich now it was all the start up probs. And she will not start with the enrichener. A good few pumps cold and a pump hot, the tickover turned up and she will catch and fire up. 

MERRY FUCKING CHRISTMAS 

bad santa...

my kinda guy

boing boing

 Decided that this seat pan I had been given by Joe will do till I find some spare cash and decide what she really wants

chitty chitty bang bang...

why use one, when two will do...

chitty chitty bang bang...

 or should that be, shitty shitty bang bang... 

reasons to be cheerful, part 4

brass exhaust rings from pete @ eat the rich 

george turned them out a bit so they'd fit...

so I chopped the slash cuts off of christine's drags and slipped on her new blingy rings...

and noticed a bit of a leak -  both pipe flanges needed a drop of weld

and the exhaust studs were loose... .  

yes you can...

6 Over - Kick Start from Wild Honey Productions on Vimeo.

been there... done that...

from lovecycles

georgie boy...

turned this up for me on his lathe

he's no boy (nearly eighty years)

and finally fitted today when I sourced some screws from 

stig fasteners who stock the correct size in various head types

I finally found out the thread size is 8.32 UNC 

(by googling!)

The carb saga is getting boring

fitted .28 Intermediate again and .68 Main

Hard to start still

Will not start cold with enrichener

Will not start hot easily, fires but does not catch and run.

This is not why I dumped my points and my old carb.

I will have to try with my old carb if I can get that not to flood etc.

shovelicious

 tough

 tougher

elegant

lovely

from bb blog

reasons to be cheerful, part three...

 In the post today an ironic card from my brother,  made me laugh...

and a really top mag arrived too, also some smaller jets for the bitch...

that made christine run like a dog ( my fault)...

but realizing that I am one year younger than I thought... 

- fifty fucking seven and not 58 was I guess a bonus...

and fifteen years later...

UP AND DOWN AND UP AND DOWN
an old fat bloke and

 his shovel

 go for a ride again...

reasons to be cheerful part 2...

 Strapped a bottle on so I could take the bike up the road while she was running cos there would have been a bloody oil slick - and finally Christine stopped gobbing up pints of oil...

 How dare you wear those daggy tracksuit trousers...

 Not sure if the new seat suits her, maybe a different colour...

Christine barely runs if you grab some throttle, the accelerator pumps adjusted down, and jets replaced down to .028 Intermediate and .70 Main. The plugs not covered in black soot now but she will not start cold with the enrichener on and when hot fires but will not catch and keep running. 


Fuck it - Ive just ordered some smaller jets from Alex @ Grizzlys
who had some in stock. 


Lowbrow have started slapping on a flatbox USPS charge of $30 on what would have gone normal post, which fucks buying a set when it hits our customs.

from a planet far far away...

oooh look - there's a clanger...

and there's Major Clangers flying machine...

oh dear

boogie wonderland

I did a little poster and blog site for my mate Johnny and his band

the boogiemen

check them out

rockin good blues!

Johnny sent me a suprise gift, I'd mentioned dropping the pipe that he gave as a wedding present (purchased at the Kent Custom Show I think) back in the day. Love ya.

reasons to be cheerful... part one

I left the return feed off (fixed the oil cooler and was double checking) 
and forgot... till the oil ran down on to the belt drive and the was spun along the patio and up the wall of the house...

Drilled a hole in the 'well made' mooneyes airfilter back plate 

and the air filter! As they cover the float bowl breather passage...

 Installed my old inline fuel filter which leaked and then stopped (leaking)...

It was getting dark when she finally started and I wondered where the sparks were coming from - the battery had moved sideways all on its own, till the cover just touched the live connector...

 

and finally the oil on the floor wasn't coming down from the beltdrive oil fiasco. No it was coming from the between the base of the cylinders! 

I checked the base nuts, and some were just finger tight... 

Never had that happen before. Fuck I've not been down the road on the bitch yet! 

more throttle...

or... what she said part two

ha ha hahaha hahahahaha

What she said...

Who told that fat bloke with the dodgy barnet he could try to start the bitch?

shovelicious

fats where it at, goose neck

from bb

remain calm and patient while attempting to start a motorcycle.......

hahaha

the guys on shovelhead.us really helped with good real time advice

I found the pushrods were adjusted too tight and to use less carb on starting with an E

started yesterday three times 1st kick using no pump or choke, well the third time came a lot later as it wouldn't start again hot.

 As Rowan is my witness...

 I excitedly called him while she was running... 

'Go on mate, start her again' - and she wouldn't.

'Haha they don't like an audience mate'. True

 Running very rich, Plugs black and sooty, the front on one half of the insulator only.

So get the S&S manual out and... if your idle mixture screw out less than 1&1/4 turns (YES) then the intermediate jet needs changing. HMMMM

then I find this little bit about aftermarket airfilters covering up the bowl vent hole...HMMMM

So I thought I'd have a look and...

 you fucking tosser, its covered up!

the passage equalises bowl pressure and atmospheric pressure

engine may run erratically!

some guys have all the fun...

Just a little update. The ultima ignition I installed on my Shovel must be set at Zero dead revs after all. I pulled my S&S Super e off and cleaned it really good, it had been sitting for months while I waited on a new transmission and the ultima ignition, and after I adjusted it back to factory specs my shovel fires up on the 1st or second kick cold and 1st kick hot. Every time. Very impressed with the Ultima unit as well when it comes to the idle. With points it would fire up easily but the idle tended to be a little erratic. Sometimes it would idle really well and others it would idle fine for a little bit and then abruptly cough and die. Normally just an annoyance on a bike with electric start but a major pain in the ass on a kick only shovel like mine. Loving it now.

pinched from chopcult forum


grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

losing the will to live part 2...

this week a nice young man in a suit gave me his card...

 Paul came round again and kindly spent Monday morning with me trying to load on to his PC running Vista. Called Dynatek UK, evidently they run it on windows XP! Sent email to Dyna USA, they sent detailed instructions to disable the user access control (security) in vista. Thanks but why can't you put that in the bloody instructions, the internet is full of people having problems loading this software.

Ray (of CJ Smith Electricals shop, Chertsey!) managed to load his mini laptop (running windows XP) with my dynatek software by changing some code as 1. It would not load due to screen size and 2. It wouldn't recognise the driver to run the usb connection.

Finally managed to load down to the ignition unit . 

The first attempt didn't work. Evidently loading the software disables the switches on the ignition unit and the ignition should be turned on so I spent another half  hour kicking the bitch over. 

And I reload the programming again.

Finally I wheel Christine outside and try again. 

Pump the throttle, kick through a with ignition off.

Ignition on and she fires first kick - I cannot believe it. 

Check the return pipe, wheres the fucking oil? 

And moments later there she blows so switch off.

Fuck, Ive got the shakes, 'Ren get the fucking camera'!

Reconnect the pipe to the oil tank and mop up the spillage and start again

Kick through off and kick on and bam she fires again, 

blatt blatt blatt - fuck weve done it !

Well as you can see the vid didn't work... 

and she wouldn't start again...