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Needle & Seat - Needle retaining Clip 9 years 1 month ago #6342

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Here's Pete's post from a month ago:

kza13 wrote: Yeh been there and done that also, guess I picked it up early before I started the bike, my '79 has a sidecar attached and I put on a later model clutch cover with the bigger sight glass, so because the bike is pretty well level i've gotten into the habit of looking at the oil level as I get on the bike, one day the level of oil was just too high, couldn't see any air line in the sight glass, seems the old petcock was ok but a float had stuck open, I took out the plugs and two cylinders were pretty full of fuel and whatever leaked past the rings filled the crankcase. My fault really, just got complacent and never turned off the fuel tap one time too often, changed the petcock to the vacuum operated one, and changed the fuel needle valves because the replacement ones I got were hanging up, drained the oil, changed filter and all is well. I still check the sight glass before every start, easy routine and saves a lot of heartache, glad you also got your problem before any damage was done, guess we could say we flushed out the crankcase of any "sludge" the hard way, cheers Pete.


I can see this needs to be added to the FAQ. I'll get on it.

Bill
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Needle & Seat - Needle retaining Clip 9 years 1 month ago #6355

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I have sent an email to Mitsuo at Cruzininmage about the problem with the clips. Will wait and see what he comes back with and advise all.

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