Nut and Bolt Rebuild on Emma

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hurracane

Re: Nut and Bolt Rebuild on Emma

Post by hurracane » Sun Oct 25, 2009 6:06 pm

just a suggestion would it be worth putting some kind of heat shield between the air filter and the exhaust would probably help the bike to run cooler

im only saying this as i discovered the reason that my 500 wouldnt start when hot was because the carb was directly above the exhaust and was boiling /evaporating or whatever ! the petrol in the float bowl dunno if anyone else has had this problem
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Apophis

Re: Nut and Bolt Rebuild on Emma

Post by Apophis » Sun Oct 25, 2009 8:19 pm

Good thought
do you mean heat shield under the airbox or under the carb

I will see how much this will add to the costing
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mart

Re: Nut and Bolt Rebuild on Emma

Post by mart » Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:08 am

wait till winter i used to get carb icing really bad, it puts that bit of heat there to stop it only slightly though
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Re: Nut and Bolt Rebuild on Emma

Post by frenchy3 » Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:36 pm

You can get exhaust wrap that would insulate the heat from the carb/airbox. This would increase the chances of carb icing especially on a CV carb(my Kawasaki KLX used to do this and would not run if the revs dropped low when the ambient temperature was below about 2 degrees or there was a lot of moisture in the cold air).
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Apophis

Re: Nut and Bolt Rebuild on Emma

Post by Apophis » Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:07 pm

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GreenRotax

Re: Nut and Bolt Rebuild on Emma

Post by GreenRotax » Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:30 pm

Now that looks good.
Again I`m/we are very impressed.
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Re: Nut and Bolt Rebuild on Emma

Post by digger » Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:37 pm

Looking good Craig, I dont think I,ll have mine polished I cant be doing with all that Solvol and stuff :lol: :lol: :lol: .
And to think that you used to take the p**s about me getting my bike dirty :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: Nut and Bolt Rebuild on Emma

Post by morpheus » Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:49 pm

Very, very nice Craig,

Well done for putting the effort in - this is exactly the sort of product that will be needed to keep our bikes going in the future.

Put me down as a definite!

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Re: Nut and Bolt Rebuild on Emma

Post by Daj » Tue Oct 27, 2009 7:04 pm

A work of art craig, 'tis a beatiful thing!

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Re: Nut and Bolt Rebuild on Emma

Post by ellrider » Tue Oct 27, 2009 7:29 pm

Do they come in black :D
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