First of all hello to you folks of the long running legs.
I would like to thank these "wild Goose folks for helping with the race bike.
It was short lived but sucessefull in my eyes. I did get a couple trophy's.
But I came across some thing that might help some others.
Here's A short or not read on my travels. ( not in miles)
Don't do what I did
and how I fixed it.
And misdiagnosis along the way.
Two years ago I acquired a hot rod. First off don't do that,---- if it's not done already.
What I thought would be an over the winter project lasted two years. Thus my street bike, 2002 Stone sat in the same spot 24 months ( not good). Although I drained the tank and removed the battery. With fresh gas and charge on the battery, it didn't want to run on both cylinders and wouldn't idle.
I'd had trouble in the past with this crappie gas sediment plugging the strainer on the fuel pump. So I started there, removed cleaned and inspected. No luck.
Pulled the fuel filter and found it had some kind of brown sludge in it. And found out the old number for Bosch replacement comes up to front end linkage. I bought WIX # 533564. Still no luck.
So I started on the bottom of the learning curve on fuel injectors. With the help of the world wide web- thank you Al Gore- I began.
Wondering if all injectors could be related.I looked at the fuel injection of the 90 Lincoln town car engine - I'd swapped out to carb.
Yep, pretty much the same, in fact since the cylinders are similar volume, the nozzles may interchange. Don't know - didn't try it. If you pull the 90* fitting off the Guzzi injector, they are the same except color.But did have 8 injector connections to work with. ( yes I have a few extras if you need one and don't want to go junk yard hunting). Nothing wrong with them, and no star-tie yep it still won't start.
How ever I have to this day-- my first complaint against against guzzi engineers. Those two recessed allen head screws that hold the injector into the throttle body through the plastic/nylon block--- are red locktite-- permanent on the threads. They must have been less than grate 5 screws!!! No reason for this since the whole out fit it rubber mounted!
Weak spark on the right side made me suspect bad coil. Spark was restored with diff. Battery. Nothing.
Turns out, it's always the last place you look, the tank valve is plugged. A short rap with the screwdriver broke a bunch of carp loose. But it wouldn't close up and leaked gas after shut off.. So I made up an insulated tank valve plug with a couple straight pins. Well, the second one was insulated, the first one didn't survive the connectors touching.
I did make a flick of it all.
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQBJjTQ1A1s
read em and weap.
