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CB400/4 ENGINE STRIP, ASSESSMENT AND REBUILD BY JULIE - NOW COMPLETE
Nurse Julie:
The carb rebuild………A step too far for me :'( :'( :'(
Well, the carbs are reassembled, at last. These carbs were in the most disgusting state both internally and externally and I'm amazed they were functioning at all.
These proved to a major headache for me in the end. It was all so simple in theory, strip carbs completely, every single component, taking photos and making notes, send appropriate parts for re zincing, clean all other parts thoroughly by hand and the bodies in the ultra-sonic cleaner, re assemble using said photos and notes.
Oh boy, how wrong I was. I was fine re assembling everything in the top of the bodies, the throttle arms, internal and external, the holders, slides etc. In the bottom of the bodies all the jets, float valves and needles, floats etc were easy as I had done them in the past.
The problem came when I attempted to assemble everything on the mounting plate and attach it to the corresponding parts on the bodies. Even with my photos, which by this time I admitted were useless and my notes with a few measurements of nuts and bolts, I could just not make sense of any of the parts I needed to put where. I sat there just looking at them with a total mental block, with absolutely no logic and getting in a right strop. I was even emailing Gerben, who was fantastic but I was at a total blank. So Trig did them for me. Once he had finished, I looked at them and couldn’t understand why it had been beyond me, it all made perfect sense seeing them together.
Anyway, I then carried on with the bits I can do, I have bench synced them, re set the floats at 21mm, set the mixture screws at 2 turns out to start with and adjusted the fast idle speed adjuster.
I just need to fit them back on the bike and I’m ready to fire her up.
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UK Pete:
They look amazing
You give it your best and done 90% of the work so well done youy
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K2-K6:
Nice work however you got there, delegation is a very underrated skill when used at the right time!
Can't wait to see the start up results, the suspense is killing us :)
JamesH:
Wow, beautiful work Julie. Nice that Trigger helped do the last 1% to get you over the line :D :D :D
Nurse Julie:
--- Quote from: Jamesh_sussex on April 26, 2018, 10:46:24 AM ---Wow, beautiful work Julie. Nice that Trigger helped do the last 1% to get you over the line :D :D :D
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Trig will say he did 99% of everything James . I say Trig did 100% of the 38% I couldn't do ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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