Hello,
This very pretty signora that has just been restaured by it´s proud owner developed a strange problem that has been driving us crazy these past few weeks.
After the restoration the bike started great, worked very well for 2 or 3 rides (about 150Km's) but then it just started to choke and barely made it home.
The bike had a non functioning left cilinder but it idled and the engine had dificullty in revving.
After 1 week of testing, dissassembling cleaning, reassembling carburetors and wiring we found out that there was a bad connection on the turn signals that were connected to the auxiliary headlights wires and the relay was stuck. Fixed it but still not work well. Finally we changed the condenser at it started working well...
The next day it was not working again.
This time the right cilinder was choked, it didn't even idle and the right sparkplug was wet.
Dissassembled the tank and etc.. again and after a thorough inspection we noticed that the choke cable from the right cilinder was stuck out of the distributing box.
Got it right and started working fine, tested it a few times and all seemed fine...
Next day it didn't work well again.
The left cilinder is off and spark plug is dry, the right cilinder works normal, and the engine holds the idle speed but the left cilinder doesn't even get warm.
Only strange simptom is that for what I know the engine should work without the condender but it doesn't, soon as you unplug it the engine dies and won't start.
The points are in the correct clearance and have been tested with another one. Tried 3 diferent condensers, checked carburetor cables and fuel lines, checked wires but can't seem to find the problem.
Luckily the weather has been terrible..
Please reply with known issues to the 1973 850gt california model
This very pretty signora that has just been restaured by it´s proud owner developed a strange problem that has been driving us crazy these past few weeks.
After the restoration the bike started great, worked very well for 2 or 3 rides (about 150Km's) but then it just started to choke and barely made it home.
The bike had a non functioning left cilinder but it idled and the engine had dificullty in revving.
After 1 week of testing, dissassembling cleaning, reassembling carburetors and wiring we found out that there was a bad connection on the turn signals that were connected to the auxiliary headlights wires and the relay was stuck. Fixed it but still not work well. Finally we changed the condenser at it started working well...
The next day it was not working again.
This time the right cilinder was choked, it didn't even idle and the right sparkplug was wet.
Dissassembled the tank and etc.. again and after a thorough inspection we noticed that the choke cable from the right cilinder was stuck out of the distributing box.
Got it right and started working fine, tested it a few times and all seemed fine...
Next day it didn't work well again.
The left cilinder is off and spark plug is dry, the right cilinder works normal, and the engine holds the idle speed but the left cilinder doesn't even get warm.
Only strange simptom is that for what I know the engine should work without the condender but it doesn't, soon as you unplug it the engine dies and won't start.
The points are in the correct clearance and have been tested with another one. Tried 3 diferent condensers, checked carburetor cables and fuel lines, checked wires but can't seem to find the problem.
Luckily the weather has been terrible..
Please reply with known issues to the 1973 850gt california model