Update:
Master cylinder clean and flushed with new fluid. I'm having a local shop build some new brake lines for me.
Replaced the faulty float valve and all the gaskets and the carburetors don't leak any more. But now I think I have a dead cylinder number 2. I felt the exhaust and they were all super hot except number 2. It was slightly warm but I think that was just from the radiant heat of the other exhaust pipes.
I checked the drain on the float bowl and there's fuel in the bowl. I checked the spark with an inline spark tester and it flashed thoroughly. So I took some extra gas in a pipette and squirted it into the number 2 carb with the airbox removed and the engine smoothed out and the exhaust pipe got hotter. So maybe somehow the fuel isn't getting from the float bowl to the cylinder.
I know the jets are clear and the needle slides easily. The only thing I really changed on the that carburetor was it was missing the accel pump gasket and I replaced the float bowl gasket. Last time I had the carbs together the float needle in the number one carb wasn't letting in any fuel but the number two carb was working fine. Now the number one is working fine and the number two isn't.
Would anything with the accel pump (diaphram, gasket, etc) keep the fuel from flowing out of the float bowl? I don't think I did anything else to that carb from last time. This is frustrating.
PJ
Master cylinder clean and flushed with new fluid. I'm having a local shop build some new brake lines for me.
Replaced the faulty float valve and all the gaskets and the carburetors don't leak any more. But now I think I have a dead cylinder number 2. I felt the exhaust and they were all super hot except number 2. It was slightly warm but I think that was just from the radiant heat of the other exhaust pipes.
I checked the drain on the float bowl and there's fuel in the bowl. I checked the spark with an inline spark tester and it flashed thoroughly. So I took some extra gas in a pipette and squirted it into the number 2 carb with the airbox removed and the engine smoothed out and the exhaust pipe got hotter. So maybe somehow the fuel isn't getting from the float bowl to the cylinder.
I know the jets are clear and the needle slides easily. The only thing I really changed on the that carburetor was it was missing the accel pump gasket and I replaced the float bowl gasket. Last time I had the carbs together the float needle in the number one carb wasn't letting in any fuel but the number two carb was working fine. Now the number one is working fine and the number two isn't.
Would anything with the accel pump (diaphram, gasket, etc) keep the fuel from flowing out of the float bowl? I don't think I did anything else to that carb from last time. This is frustrating.
PJ