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"You may need to pull the distributor up and out slightly, rotate the shaft one tooth, then reinsert"
Yup. I restored my '74 Eldo LAPD every 15 years or so and needed to do just that on reassembly... often.
Easy, quick, effective.
I use the center stand for suspension and wheel operations. The table for everything else. Unless there is too much crap in the way or I am too lazy to roll the bike up there.
I've used Salt Away for years.
Before leaving for Bonneville I wash the underside of my car with Salt Away. When I get back home I take the car to a self-car-wash and then respray with Salt Away. Then the bike.
Works well to get rid of the salt
Hey Dr. B, I have found using body weight and some body straightening, standing on the very end of the center stand foot (at the curled end) and rolling the bike backwards works OK.
77 850 Lemans
72 Yrs. Geezer
The story is over 10 years of effort and dough.
max record speed El Mirage (Mojave Desert Ca.) 130.156 MPH
Bonniville Record : 127.301 MPH
750cc P-PP class
Production frame
Production Pushrod engine
EVERYTHING must look original.
Intake and ex ports got the "Glue and Screw" by a great...
I think I'll reassemble and reinstall as is.
The original symptom was stalling after 5 or so highway miles. The left shut of valve's internal rubber seal had rotated causing very limited flow in Open position. No flow in the Reserve position.
The engine would resume running when the right...
My lathe will cut 1mm thread. I tried to make some threaded 12mm rod out of plastic rod, then aluminum. ... but I couldn't grind a cutter down enough to establish threads.
So Grainger has some nice pipe rubber plugs
Item 2HCF4
Mfr. Model 269840
They're for 1/2" ID pipe so I hadda grind them...
Thanx John.
My monkey wrench with numbers (aka caliper) reads just short of 12mm. My thread gauge shows 1.0 mm/t.
This is an odd combination, so I thought I'd ask if anyone KNEW what the spec was.
As far as I can tell the standards are 1.75 mm/t , 1.5 mm/t, and 1.25mm/t for M12 bolts.
Maybe...
Anyone know what size the thread is on the old Eldo sugar cube fuel petcock? Looks like 12mm with a 1mm/thread ... thread.
I want to clean out the gas tank (shaky shaky) w/o the petcocks installed. Thinking a "standard" bolt would fit... maybe.