DesertRat
Just got it firing!
My Ambo sat for about 3 months and evidently I had a leaking petcock. Unaware of this I rode the bike about 20 miles. It ran fine and nothing seemed off.
Coincidentally it was time for an oil change. When I opened the fill an absolute geyser of fuel/oil mix shot out of the crankcase. There must have been a couple of quarts of extra liquid.
I changed the oil and hoped for the best. Since, I have another hundred or so miles on it. Nothing obvious happening beyond some fine sludge collecting on a magnet on the dipstick that is not obviously metallic but is collecting and I might be imagining a faint rumble at real low engine speeds ( I’m not positive it wasn’t there before though). My concern is the big end bearings of course but maybe there is some engine experience out there that would give me some hope.
And I replaced the peacocks.
Any thoughts would be appreciated, thanks in advance
Coincidentally it was time for an oil change. When I opened the fill an absolute geyser of fuel/oil mix shot out of the crankcase. There must have been a couple of quarts of extra liquid.
I changed the oil and hoped for the best. Since, I have another hundred or so miles on it. Nothing obvious happening beyond some fine sludge collecting on a magnet on the dipstick that is not obviously metallic but is collecting and I might be imagining a faint rumble at real low engine speeds ( I’m not positive it wasn’t there before though). My concern is the big end bearings of course but maybe there is some engine experience out there that would give me some hope.
And I replaced the peacocks.
Any thoughts would be appreciated, thanks in advance