hi there, me again, when i first got my bike it would start on about the second kick, since then it has been getting progresivly harder to start each time. and now it will not start.
i took the manifold off yesterday and the gaskets were knackered, and it had the original gasket still under the new gasket. so i replced them and the bike seem to run better and started a bit better. but now this morning it just flooding, ive took the plugs out and they looked wet and black. see photo. (edit how do you post a thumbal image ??. and sorry in advance)
i also noticed that the gaps on the end of the plugs are completely different and a small gap on one and bigger gap on the other, and the plugs are different make's, theres a ngk b7hs on one side and a champion l82c on the other.
chould this be the problem or is it that with the inlet gaskets being knackered somebody has set the carb over rich to compensate for all the air the knackered gasket was letting in ?. or is it a combination of both.
i'm gonna change the plugs anyway but before i do which would best suit my bike (a 1948 longstroke engine) and what would the right gap be. i did have a quick scan for the right plug and gap but it all got a bit confuseing. cheer's in advance, chicago
UPDATE cleaned the plug's and set the gap's to 0.020" and she started after about 4 kicks, there was a couple of pop's/backfires but i would imagine that was just unburnt fuel from being flooded. i have also found that what i thought was a air lever was infact a manual advance/retard lever and the bikes got no air lever and no choke slide in the carb
