Having finally gotten mostly settled in the new house and cleaned the cobwebs off Martina, we went for a longer drive yesterday with lots of hills. On the long downhills in gear, she stalled out at the bottom a couple times and I'm thinking the likeliest culprit is overheating fuel in the carb bowl. I have an FZD 28/30 on a mildly-modified 594cc motor with a 35/75 cam. I'm thinking of plumbing a fuel return line, but my FZD only has one inlet on the top cover - on the front (gearbox) side of the carb. I don't imagine it's safe to just drill it out and fit a barb there, is it?
Toshi, Hobbler... you guys have any ideas or a source for a new, dual inlet top plate? If that's the course I take (drill or new top plate), I'd reroute the inlet to the front and return from the back, ideally.
She's also running fairly rich, so I'm curious if any of you guys have a source for various jets? I haven't taken this carb apart to see what it's jetted as currently (I haven't swapped it out from what you originally sent it to me as, Toshi), so I don't quite know the starting point yet.
Otherwise, she ran pretty hard and got up to and maintained 70mph, somewhat squirrely thanks to the steering box slop... Something I really want to rectify soon. Tom, I think you have a rack swap source (parts, info, etc...), right? If so, mind sending it my way?
Thanks fellas.
Toshi, Hobbler... you guys have any ideas or a source for a new, dual inlet top plate? If that's the course I take (drill or new top plate), I'd reroute the inlet to the front and return from the back, ideally.
She's also running fairly rich, so I'm curious if any of you guys have a source for various jets? I haven't taken this carb apart to see what it's jetted as currently (I haven't swapped it out from what you originally sent it to me as, Toshi), so I don't quite know the starting point yet.
Otherwise, she ran pretty hard and got up to and maintained 70mph, somewhat squirrely thanks to the steering box slop... Something I really want to rectify soon. Tom, I think you have a rack swap source (parts, info, etc...), right? If so, mind sending it my way?
Thanks fellas.