oldiebutnewbe
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Just bought a '49 8N, had been sitting for 5 years. 6V sysytem. got it home, picked up a battery, went over to Dennis Carpenter got points, plugs, wires, coil, and manuals....
fired up first time I tried. ran a little rough, got it warm enough to change engine oil, and transmission oil. Ran just fine. couple of runs around the block to get all the juices flowing again from sitting.
went to use it last week, no start. plenty of spark.....no start. checked fuel, flowed freely from carb drain plug. removed, cleaned reinstalled carb with kit from Dennis. Set float to .260" per manual, as soon as I opened valve on the bowl. Filled up the intake hose with fuel. Re-adjusted float a little lower......still flowed.
bought a new carb.....put it on, fire up, ran but a bit rough. Tried to set idle and full power mixture........not much luck.
Had time today to play with it. Took new carb off, verified float setting, right where it's supposed to be. won't stay running below 1/3 power setting on throttle, lean it out with mixture screw....quits. At 1 turn on idle mixture, 1/3 throttle showing on throttle indicator, runs rough, back fires thru carb once in a while and fuel puddles just at the entrance to the carb, not enough to drip, but enough to see. Runs at full throttle, ( not sure RPM...left the meter at work ) but will bog down under a load, governor does seem like it picks up.
I think I have multiple failures........perhaps points aren't set right??{but starts right up with very little choke applied} Governor not working at lower RPM??{and at higher, but was working fine just a week or so ago} still a carb issue???
Looking for advise as to the best place to start ( besides selling the darn thing )
Thanks all for any input.
fired up first time I tried. ran a little rough, got it warm enough to change engine oil, and transmission oil. Ran just fine. couple of runs around the block to get all the juices flowing again from sitting.
went to use it last week, no start. plenty of spark.....no start. checked fuel, flowed freely from carb drain plug. removed, cleaned reinstalled carb with kit from Dennis. Set float to .260" per manual, as soon as I opened valve on the bowl. Filled up the intake hose with fuel. Re-adjusted float a little lower......still flowed.
bought a new carb.....put it on, fire up, ran but a bit rough. Tried to set idle and full power mixture........not much luck.
Had time today to play with it. Took new carb off, verified float setting, right where it's supposed to be. won't stay running below 1/3 power setting on throttle, lean it out with mixture screw....quits. At 1 turn on idle mixture, 1/3 throttle showing on throttle indicator, runs rough, back fires thru carb once in a while and fuel puddles just at the entrance to the carb, not enough to drip, but enough to see. Runs at full throttle, ( not sure RPM...left the meter at work ) but will bog down under a load, governor does seem like it picks up.
I think I have multiple failures........perhaps points aren't set right??{but starts right up with very little choke applied} Governor not working at lower RPM??{and at higher, but was working fine just a week or so ago} still a carb issue???
Looking for advise as to the best place to start ( besides selling the darn thing )
Thanks all for any input.