Today was an exciting day on the CL200 front. Last night I took the jets out of the carbs and cleaned them again. The left carb’s jet seemed ok visually, but you could tell it wasn’t passing as much air (when out of the carb) as the right carb’s jet.
I was lucky – that did the trick and I fired it up this morning first thing and FINALLY it was running properly. No sputtering. So, I took it to the HD demo day event in Mentor. Round trip plus some riding around Mentor, it went 82 miles just fine. Now, I guess I’m a vintage bike RIDER and not just an owner!!!
Also, the new float arrived today. I could tell right off that it was more narrow than the old one. From what I recall when ordering it, the original part number was superceded by a new number, so I’m guessing somewhere down the line they started making them more narrow.
Right away from blowing air into the fuel line with the air compressor, I could tell this was working better. Last night when I had the carbs apart, I did the same thing and air was still getting through when turning the carb upside down (in theory closing the valve). With this one it was air tight.
The picture above is my nightly parking ritual for it – letting the overflow tubes drip into an empty water bottle. I have them in there tonight too, but I’m hoping to find the bottle empty by morning….which will mean that this problem is solved. I put the new float on the left carb – the right one will need one too, but it only drips a drop or two overnight. The left carb was dripping 4 or 5 ounces (on the water bottle scale). One other thing worth noting – this new float (which came with a new pin) moves much more freely than the old one.
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