Carburetor and Fuel System
Title: Midnight
Engineering - Linkert Float
Post by Cotten on Dec 19, 2005, 1:40am
Spending for another brass boatanchor is tossing more good money after bad. Even when there is no hole in it.
If you wish for your Linkert to operate as it was intended, the float must have the same buoyancy as the original. Otherwise you chase your tail for hours or days trying to find a 'sweet' setting, and still suffer poor gas mileage thereafter.
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Thanks to our Host, and to all for their patience.
...Cotten
Post by 64duoglide on Dec 19, 2005, 3:03pm
Float didn't last long...this morning after firing her up she started puking again...by then I was committed...I worked the petcock and drove the 15 miles to work....42 deg and bright sunshine...it was worth it...
As a side note, I learned the difference on how the engine behaves/sounds when there is too much fuel and too little...I think the float was aggravating the manifold seal problem I was having. You can't put a price on experience!
Post by ozwick on Dec 20, 2005, 6:16am
Buy the liberty float. You won't be sorry.
ozwick
Post by Rammy on Dec 20, 2005, 1:33pm
Ya I will 2nd that,Buy the liberty,End that prob for good.
Post by 64duoglide on Dec 26, 2005, 1:44am
Bought the good looking float from Liberty...installed it without checking float level (dumba** mistake). Bike runs and starts better than ever...wooohooo! But, at high speed it is surging like its running out of fuel...back to the float...adjusted to the service maual recommended 1/4" from the top of the bowl. reassembled, trouble starting again...finally got it going, out on the highway it cant decide weather it wants to run out of gas, or puke it out all over the motor so it does both...kinda acts like roadking03's problem...back off with the bowl. Float has kind of a catch in it, just turning the bowl upside down and back up slowly, the float is getting hung up, but it can be forced with light pressure?!? Upon closer inspection, I find the needle has worn a small groove in the float lever where it has been riding for who knows how many years (the shiny spot on the farther away lower "finger" in the picture), when I readjusted the float, it "got out of its groove" and was hanging up. A little filing the groove away, readjusting to around 5/16", and the bike runs and starts like a champ!
Lesson learned....look at EVERYTHING...
PS...when I got it back to the garage the first time...it just died, and guess who forgot to turn off the ignition?!? But I have another great midnight engineering story!
Post by Cotten on Dec 27, 2005, 5:25am
I have found excessive wear upon the three fingers and pivot pin also, upon a lever that only had ~2000 miles upon it.
The inertia of heavy brass floats accellerates wear at these bearing surfaces.
...Cotten
