Topic: Hear Ye, Hear Ye, the float was....

[Zeke]

uPSIDE dOWN!!

Yes, I might now be the worst motorcycle mechanic of all time -- I guess Chung is right -- you shouldn't drink too much beer while wrenching.

Some of you may have read my other thread about my problems, but I thought this one was worth a separate thread.  Pretty impressive, eh?  Anyway, it runs again but I still have tuning to do.

Feel free to bash my mechanic skills,

Zeke

[Robert]

        no bashing though, if I'd post all mistakes I've made on my bikes it would be a looong post.
I'm glad for you, that you finally got it.

[SteveD CB500F]

I remember some biker mechanic in my dim and distant past assuring me that it was possible to reassemble an engine backwards (timing etc) and actually start it up!

Anyone ever heard of (or tried) this??

[kghost]

Put together a 390 Ford once. Put the distributor 180 degrees off. Fired up -  sort of. Bent 4 pushrods.

With the wasted spark I wonder if you could put the cam 180 degrees out. Then 4 would run instead of 1. Since the cam turns at 1/2 crank and all cylinders fire in 720 degrees of rotation........

[keiths]

Your upside down float reminds me of my biggest mechanical blunder. I got my first bike in 1970. It was a 1965 Honda Dream 150. I often took it apart and put it back together just to see how it worked. I thought I new every inch of that bike. One day I took the whole bike apart but when I put it back together it wouldn't run. I knew it wasn't getting any gas but couldn't figure out why. I finally gave up and gave the bike to by brother. He got it running. I had put the throttle pin in upside down.

[pmpski_1]

I took my petcock apart the other day...I did everything I could to flatten the bent up washer that was in there...

-Brian