I had a bunch of the guys over to do some winter wrenching this weekend. We got a bunch of stuff done in preparation for summer blasting. A little bit of leakdown testing, Kim’s hobbit engine was air tight, Brian’s Gila E50 not so much. Jimbo did some porting on his Motobecane AV10 Polini setup (that thing…
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Just a little update on some of the winter projects I’m working on. A little bit of TLC for the Tomos In my previous post you saw I had a suspicion that my tomos had an air leak so I built a leakdown tester. Much of the leak was coming right out of the spark plug hole so I…
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So for a while now I’ve suspected I’ve got an air leak of some sort on my Tomos. It runs a little hotter then it should, and doesn’t like to idle very consistently even though the timing is spot on. The first thing I usually do is spray some starting fluid around the intake area…
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