Subject: Re: Bringing an Eldorado to life.
Author: Ken Smith
Date: Aug 11, 2005, 5:19 PM
Post ID: 1719285190
Hi all. I sent in the queries below in July and received some advice
and insight into working on my '73 Eldorado. I have since rewired the
entire bike with a loom from Gordon at MG Cycles. The bike started
immediately without choking and ran fine but would only rev up to
about 3000 RPM. I had disassembled cleaned and reassembled the carbs
and set the timing with a timing light according to the manual. Still
no luck with the 3000 RPM rev limit. I decided to look into the carbs,
specifically the accelerator pumps and discovered the spring on top of
the plungers! Aha! Put the springs under the plunger and restarted the
bike. Same outcome. No revs above 3K. Let the bike sit for a week. Took
out the pumps and held them up right in a bowl of water as they would
sit in the float bowls and used a needle valve to depress the spring
and then "opened" the throttle, so to speak. No fuel. Put the plunger
in upside down from what I originally assembled, retest, Voila! Fuel,
or rather water spurted through the jet oriface. Dried them, put them
back in the carbs. Started the bike and had a
short, fast high RPM test ride. All electrics work great now, except
the turn signals still waiting to be mounted. Engine is strong, lots of
torque, no smoking, very little blowby and no odd engine noises.
Looking forward to my shakedown ride this weekend.
Thanks, again, to Greg Bender, Gordon, Mark E. and all the others
offering support and advice. I now have a great running Eldorado, a
slumbering Ambassador, a very nice 850T3 in boxes, and a basket case,
genuine police Ambassador without a tank, side covers or windshield and
no compression on #2. At least I have one to ride into the winter and
maybe through it, since I am in Northern California.
Ciao,
Ken
On Jul 18, 2005, at 9:09 PM, Ken Smith wrote:
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