The Carburetters are done!

     Hello again,

It's been a while, am having a change of font, as you can see, i like it, and this is my blog, so it stays for the moment.

I have been remiss in my updating of my blog, and, if i am honest - remiss in the progression of my GS project bike, i have had a recent upload of enthusiasm, posssibly linked to teh changing season.

     The 'accidental' purchase of a 30 litre, yup thats a 30 Litre ultrasonic cleaner and the gift of a perfect hobbyist welder from my darling wife enthuse me some-what. 

     The carbs were reluctant and faught me all the way, 2 screws had managed to weld themselves into the carb body, requiring the prudent use of force, heat, WD-40 and ultimately the mildly aggresive use of a screw removal tool, following the knackering of the 2 screw heads. At this oint i resolved to replace all the screws with some nice new stainles dome head hex wrench items, and said items purchased. So the Cleaner was unpacked and carb cleaning fluids acquired i set the cleaner up and went to work. The initial clean used a 20 minute degassing feature on my cleaner and then a more aggresive 30 minute clean. These pictures are before the cleaning, very mucky and definatley not functional.

     Post cleaning, the 40 Years of detritus and shite were scientifically removed, leaving the carbs mostly rust free and definately clean. But they were till not showing the best. 

     A selective polish was needed for the brass jets and the aluminium tops and bottoms,a trial polish on one carb bottom showed promise. I am going for a clean and nice restored item, not an as new condition, so some patina and age is going to remain.

     As you can see, the end result is quite pleasing, and the best part is that they are now fully functional and should last another 40 years. The jury is out on the use of the cones, they are the old ones that cam e with the bike, to add to the decision making progress is the fact the main and pilot jets are the origional sizes, so the cones may well bring a flat spot in the mid range, so I have the standard filter mount, the foam long since turned to powder through time poor storage. I can resotre the mounts and install some foam, in a kind of eighties style homage to tuning. Will keep y'all posted.

     More updates as they occur, engine removal and fram mods next.