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Gentlemen,
After much help and many hours of work my first project bike starts up! Now its time to learn the ins and outs of adjustment and getting my new found love to purr! Below are a list of questions and concerns I have with the way she runs as of today;
The main issue in front of me is that I start her up with the choke all the way out, but as she runs I get periodic and unprompted "acceleration or revving". I've tried to slowly push in my choke about a minute into starting it up, and that seems help with the random idle acceleration, but often as I push in the choke to quell the roar of my engine she dies out (the speed at which it dies is determined by how quickly I push in the choke).
I think maybe it is an imbalance of air to fuel ratio? I installed a PULL-ONLY throttle cable on a push-pull control, but I'm tested repeatedly and the butterflies are snapping back. Not sure its a throttle
cable/control issue. Maybe my Accelerator Pump (no idea what this does)?
Thoughts?
Also I put in a full bottle of Seafoam into an almost full tank of gas. Good idea? I heard it helps clean out the engine. Lots of farting and popping when I pull the throttle while idling.
Thanks all,
After much help and many hours of work my first project bike starts up! Now its time to learn the ins and outs of adjustment and getting my new found love to purr! Below are a list of questions and concerns I have with the way she runs as of today;
The main issue in front of me is that I start her up with the choke all the way out, but as she runs I get periodic and unprompted "acceleration or revving". I've tried to slowly push in my choke about a minute into starting it up, and that seems help with the random idle acceleration, but often as I push in the choke to quell the roar of my engine she dies out (the speed at which it dies is determined by how quickly I push in the choke).
I think maybe it is an imbalance of air to fuel ratio? I installed a PULL-ONLY throttle cable on a push-pull control, but I'm tested repeatedly and the butterflies are snapping back. Not sure its a throttle
cable/control issue. Maybe my Accelerator Pump (no idea what this does)?
Thoughts?
Also I put in a full bottle of Seafoam into an almost full tank of gas. Good idea? I heard it helps clean out the engine. Lots of farting and popping when I pull the throttle while idling.
Thanks all,