October 19, 201411 yr AS most of you fellow Fantic follower's know , I finally got new cooling hoses for my 97 section ... Well this afternoon I had time to play with her and get her hot ...SWEET BIKE !!! After hour or so of playing in the yard and the bike working as it should , I took a blast wfo down my street ... Upon returning to my driveway I was passed by a cloud of smoke like I have never seen from a 2 stroke , and it didn't clear up , bike still running fine . As I have already cleaned (nasty oil soaked !!) the silencer , I was wondering if anyone has ever cleaned the midbox on a section ? 'cause I'm thinking just remove it and let it soak in the solvent tank at work for a while and then rinse it best as possible and reinstall ... I do not want to cut open the pretty chrome chamber ! so I think liquid cleaning will have to do ... And the carb needs a new seal on the choke plunger , but this is way more smoke than a fat carb ....(zero visibility!) Thoughts? experience ? Glenn
October 19, 201411 yr Author And after doing the Monday Music thing on sat. evening at serious decibel levels in my shop , (Al Dimeola , Elegant Gypsies ; race with the devil on spanish highway ) the fastest guitar solo ever )ask Eddie Vanhalen ...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGWfDkx4zyY old Macintosh cranked to heat producing levels ...And enough to p*** off the new neighbors ... I've decided that just cleaning the mid box in the solvent tank will have to do , I really don't want to cut it open ... If the bike gets a little louder , so be it . as long as it doesn't smoke like a freight train when hot ... Glenn Not the best recording but you'll get the genra ! Edited October 19, 201411 yr by axulsuv
October 21, 201411 yr Author I took the mid box off tonite .... Weighed 12Lbs !!!! just cleaning it will make such a difference ! Fired her up with nothing but the head pipe , Loud as hell , but not a spec of smoke ... The old bike has just been putted around it's whole life and never really used But I'll remedy that in short notice .... I'm gonna use it this weekend to lay out a event . And yes I'll bring the ever faithful 240 for backup Glenn Changed on edit , 12 not 22 !!! still heavy with oil ! Edited October 21, 201411 yr by axulsuv
October 23, 201411 yr Author Soaked it , washed it , Applied a torch to it ,And luckily I had it in the bucket of a small front loader at work , 'cause when it got heated up it made quite the spectacle of itself and burned with a aggressive draft thru itself .! Wire brushed and blew it out . A lot lighter now Re-installed it last nite , will try it this eve.
October 24, 201411 yr Good deal,need to cut my 240 pipe open over the winter,found a piece of the mesh in the stinger awhile back,pulled it out but curious to see what's inside.I'll take a look with my scope first.wanting do dial in the jetting better but without a clean pipe it's meaningless.
November 10, 201411 yr Author One 240 pipe I have is lined with mesh and packed in the middle section , the other that I use , is bare all the way thru , but is also a slightly different shape ...And the section works alot better , still waiting on a seal kit for the dellorto ...
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