Rocky road to the airstrip.

[Brendan W]

Filled the tank early yesterday and the pump let fly like a fire hose. First fill of the day enthusiasm. Always a bad sign. We went to the breakfast fly-in on the bike. About thirty machines, half a dozen L-4s, Tiger Moth, Auster/Taylor or two .
The last half mile of road to the strip is an engineering masterpiece. There are no potholes but no matter what speed or line you take it shakes the hell out of everything. It's so bad, getting off and pushing seemed a good idea. Later as we left we went the other way, couldn't be worse, well it was and on top of everything the bike was now showing signs of fuel starvation.
I'm going in there now fully expecting a clogged strainer at the petcock. If it turns out to be the case I can send interested parties Lat and Long of this 'road' for fuel system shakedowns,

[fastbysuzuki]

I'll have the Lat/Long please, that way I can plan my route and completely miss the area

[Brendan W]

Makes me think why the filler neck is offset.

[Brendan W]

Update. Ran a bottle of Redex through and made things much better.
Before all this happened the bike seemed to have no cold blooded time. Get it started and once you are rolling you could get rid of choke.
Now it takes a few miles before it will take big throttle inputs and it is more sensitive to choke at start. It will rev to 5000+ unless you do something and small changes make bigger differences.
Running out of excuses not to pull and clean.

[tom203]

Update. Ran a bottle of Redex through and made things much better.
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Running out of excuses not to pull and clean.

before you get too ambitious, find some long downhills, head down at speed ,then open/close throttle repeatedly- this might put more vacuum on idle/ mixture circuits

[Brendan W]

Thanks Tom. We live in a deep hollow so I have a choice of hills.
I always put the head down at speed

[RichDesmond]

Update. Ran a bottle of Redex through and made things much better.
Before all this happened the bike seemed to have no cold blooded time. Get it started and once you are rolling you could get rid of choke.
Now it takes a few miles before it will take big throttle inputs and it is more sensitive to choke at start. It will rev to 5000+ unless you do something and small changes make bigger differences.
Running out of excuses not to pull and clean.

Yep, a proper cleaning is the way to go. But you knew that...