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Steve, what I really had in mind to tell you is first clean your carbs with
the gallon size (10 bucks) carb cleaner, the one with the little dipping
basket included. If you have two or more old motorcycles in your life you
can't spend 10 bucks better. Take your carb apart, one at a time, take all
the non metal stuff off it, including the composite gaskets and especially
the floats and soak the metal carb parts in the carb cleaner. Including the
jets. Be sure to dismantle the accelerator pump so the good liquid can
penetrate everything. Once you have clean metal parts you can then
determine if you need carb kits. Sometimes after cleaning carb parts there
is a white deposit on the parts, especially in the bowl. Be sure to get all
that dry white deposit stuff out of there or it will flake off and clog up a
jet or sure. Bob

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From: Robert Hawkes [mailto:3haw-@bluefrog.biz]
Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 9:26 PM
To: Loopfram-@topica.com
Subject: RE: thanks

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Steve, I am not one to tell people not to spend money as it is so good for
the economy but you may not need rebuild kits for your carbs, unless from
the outside they look really bad, then chances are you will need a kit. One
thing to check is to see that the cardboard gaskets at the top of the square
slide are in good shape, these are often overlooked. Did Gary or anyone
else talk to you about choke cables being free and of the synched? That's a
good thing to check. Bob

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From: Steve Farris [mailto:nmwi-@msn.com]
Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 3:53 PM
To: loopframe _guzzi
Subject: thanks

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Thanks for the suggestions, that will give me somewhere to start on. I did
drain the oil/gas mix to change for straight oil in the Eldo. I'll go
through the carbs Bob and thanks for the tip about 1 at a time. As to the
Ambassador I'll reset the timing, "d'oh" even a rookie like me should have
done that first! Both have VHB carbs, guess I'll be needing about 4 rebuild
kits and some in-line filters, gaskets etc., I'll do all you suggested and
then I'm sure I'll be back with more problems. On the Ambo I re-set the
valves at .15 intake/.25 exhaust, they are on the loose side and clattering
nicely.

and for Gary, you were right, I started the Eldo with the rear wheel off and
put it in gear I can both hear and feel "clunking" from the drive line right
near the u-joint, guess that will be coming up in the near future.

Does anyone know if I can switch the entire drive line from the Ambassador
over to the Eldo without major headache's? The Eldo engine is in much
better shape as is the chassis if I could get one bike out of the two
running then I would be a lot happier while working on the other. In either
case it looks like I have some carb work to do first. I'll get on the line
to MG cycle Monday and get me some implements of destruction.

sf

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Steve, what I really had in mind to tell
you is first clean your carbs with the gallon size (10 bucks) carb cleaner, the
one with the little dipping basket included. If you have two or more old
motorcycles in your life you can’t spend 10 bucks better. Take your
carb apart, one at a time, take all the non metal stuff off it, including the
composite gaskets and especially the floats and soak the metal carb parts in
the carb cleaner. Including the jets. Be sure to dismantle the
accelerator pump so the good liquid can penetrate everything. Once you
have clean metal parts you can then determine if you need carb kits. Sometimes
after cleaning carb parts there is a white deposit on the parts, especially in
the bowl. Be sure to get all that dry white deposit stuff out of there or
it will flake off and clog up a jet or sure. Bob<o:p></o:p>

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From: Robert Hawkes
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Steve, I am not one to tell people not to
spend money as it is so good for the economy but you may not need rebuild kits
for your carbs, unless from the outside they look really bad, then chances are
you will need a kit. One thing to check is to see that the cardboard gaskets
at the top of the square slide are in good shape, these are often
overlooked. Did Gary or anyone else talk to you about choke cables being
free and of the synched? That’s a good thing to check. Bob<o:p></o:p>

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From: Steve Farris
[mailto:nmwi-@msn.com] 
Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004
3:53 PM 
To: loopframe _guzzi 
Subject: thanks<o:p></o:p>

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Thanks for the suggestions,
that will give me somewhere to start on. I did drain the oil/gas mix to
change for straight oil in the Eldo. I'll go through the carbs Bob and
thanks for the tip about 1 at a time. As to the Ambassador I'll reset the
timing, "d'oh" even a rookie like me should have done that
first! Both have VHB carbs, guess I'll be needing about 4 rebuild kits
and some in-line filters, gaskets etc., I'll do all you suggested and then I'm
sure I'll be back with more problems. On the Ambo I re-set the valves at
.15 intake/.25 exhaust, they are on the loose side and clattering nicely.<o:p></o:p>

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and for <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Gary</st1:City></st1:place>, you were right, I
started the Eldo with the rear wheel off and put it in gear I can both hear and
feel "clunking" from the drive line right near the u-joint, guess
that will be coming up in the near future. <o:p></o:p>

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 Does anyone know
if I can switch the entire drive line from the Ambassador over to the Eldo
without major headache's? The Eldo engine is in much better shape as is
the chassis if I could get one bike out of the two running then I would be a
lot happier while working on the other. In either case it looks like I
have some carb work to do first. I'll get on the line to MG cycle Monday
and get me some implements of destruction.<o:p></o:p>

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sf<o:p></o:p>

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Subject: RE: thanks

Author: Robert Hawkes

Date: Oct 16, 2004, 6:43 PM

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