Subject: RE: One Cylinder Firing
Author: Gary Cheek
Date: Sep 18, 2001, 12:38 PM
Post ID: 1708286494
Make sure the start plungers in the carb are seated AND sealing. They
are known to leak extra fuel and it usually plays out the way your
is.Start by checking freeplay in the cables and then remove the plungers
and check the seats for dirt etc. .
Barry Dikeman wrote:
| Hi All, I have a 1973 Eldorado with about 30K on the clock that has recently started to annoy me! I hadn't run it for several weeks when I went to fire it up last weekend, and noticed the following problem: It cranked over several times and came to life on both cylinders for maybe 30 seconds before the left cylinder cut out completely. In it's cold state, the right cylinder alone would not sustain unless I kept the gas to it. I pulled the plug... wet with gas by now, dried it, gapped it and cranked it outside the cylinder... spark...not the strongest I have seen but true blue. I screwed the plug back in and cranked some more.. nothing! Pulled the plug, again wet with gas... cranked it to check for spark... none. Pulled the coil wire @ the distrib. cranked it... spark! Replaced cap and rotor... nothing. Looked up under frame at coil and noticed that PO had slid the coil unit too far forward in its mount causing the coil wire to be bent/kinked in a hairpin turn back down to the distrib. Removed tank, repositioned coil, replaced wire, tested for spark (Yes!) replaced tank, cranked and fire in both holes! Problem solved ... or so I thought. Several days (and 50 miles) later, I went out to the garage to begin another ride and... repeat first part of experience in sentences above! No fire in left hole! Again, tested for spark @ all points of distribution system good except for left side seemed flakey/intermittent. Replaced left plug with the crummy old Champion that it came with when I bought it and after a few lifeless cranks I saw a spark, screwed in the plug and it ran! I don't really feel comfortable riding this bike anywhere but around town until I definitively solve this. Any insight out there? Thanks, Barry |
Gary Cheek
1971 Ambassador (I think it's sold)
1972 Eldorado Police
1974 Eldorado 4LS/Amal carb civilian