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Message started by bigdawg on 06/22/13 at 21:06:52

Title: help
Post by bigdawg on 06/22/13 at 21:06:52

98 savage with raptor pet thingy leaking fuel out of air cleaner while cranking?
Bike is in hemet ca 1594' above sea leval.

Title: Re: help
Post by verslagen1 on 06/22/13 at 21:10:59

take a plastic handle and rap it against the bowl, your float is stuck.

might need to clean the carb.

lookie there dane, another one in riverside.

Title: Re: help
Post by bigdawg on 06/23/13 at 15:11:05

I have a nother question. I put a vacuum gauge on the carb where the stock vacuum line was and the gauge bounces from 0 to about 18 when cranking is this normal?

Title: Re: help
Post by 87 savage on 06/23/13 at 15:44:12

Hi bigdawg! Since there is only 1 piston you will have vacuum when the piston is going down on the intake stroke only. And since the engine cranks fairly slowly your vac gauge needle will bounce.

Title: Re: help
Post by bigdawg on 06/23/13 at 18:03:22

Thanks for the info

Title: Re: help
Post by Gyrobob on 06/23/13 at 20:26:16

5A515F5C594F5F380 wrote:

I have a nother question. I put a vacuum gauge on the carb where the stock vacuum line was and the gauge bounces from 0 to about 18 when cranking is this normal?

Put a very long length of vacuum line (5 feet? 10 feet?) on the vacuum port, and put a small c-clamp near the end of the line with vacuum gauge.
-- Use several feet of vacuum line because you want a lot of interior volume. Any kind of flexible hose that will fit the carb and your gauge will do.
-- Clamp the c-clamp down so the hose is blocked off,... then with the motor being cranked over by the starter motor, slowly open up the c-clamp bit by bit until there is a tiny "leak" in the hose at the clamp, then stop opening the clamp. You want the clamp to allow only a very little bit of air to pass.

The long hose (with its interior volume acting as a volumetric damper) and the very small amount of air allowed by the "leak" (acting as a flow restrictor) will cause the needle to be a lot steadier.

It may take several seconds of cranking to get the needle on the gauge to stabilize. It will still wiggle back and forth some, but the range of motion should be small.

("help" is not a very helpful title for a thread)

Title: Re: help
Post by Boogieman on 06/23/13 at 23:36:48

ya verslagen1, Dane, and myself are in socal. I live in downtown Riverside and Dane is not too far from me. your welcome to come hang out at my place and we can dig through your bike a little if u like.