Post by steven on Jul 18, 2017 22:33:37 GMT 1
Hi,
As some of you may know, I enjoy buggering about with some old Villiers 2 stroke engines I have restored.
They are not in any bikes or anything, they are just fixed to lumps of wood, and I enjoy going out of a nice summer evening into the the garden and firing them up.
Tonight was one of those nights.
In the days of photobucket I would currently be uploading photos and videos to show you all my old 2 strokes chuffing away in the garden.
Luckily, you wont be subjected to such drivel tonight, due the the photobucket thing !
Tonight I decided to fire up my two oldest ones, which are both Villiers V1-C and were made in 1922.
One of them I managed to source the correct carb for.
The other one currently has an RD 250 LC carb on it !
I enjoy looking for suitable carbs for them, as they are quite hard to get.
I have various old carbs which I have restored and made up adaptors to suit on my Myford lathe, to mate them to my old Villiers engines.
I have yet to find a carb that these old 2 stroke WONT run with.
I lifted both my 1922 2 stroke engines out the house and into the garden, as they live in doors, in an attempt to keep the magnetos nice and warm and dry.
I poured some 16:1 2 stroke mixture into the first one, with the proper 1920,s carb on it, and it fired up fine and ran perfectly, thats the first it has ran this year.
I ran it for a little while and let it warm up nicely, I let it run for a while and then let it run out of petrol as I normaly do.
I was delighted, my 95 year old 2 strokes first run of the year was spot on.
I then got the other V1-C ready, the one with the 250 LC carb on it, this also has not been run this year yet.
I grabbed my bottle of 16:1 2 stroke mixture and poured it in..... guess what..... petrol pissed everywhere out the 250 LC carb, obviousely the float valve/ needle valve was stuck open.
I gave the carb a little tap with a plastic handled screwdriver in the usual places, but to no avail, it looks like the Nipponese carb requires a strip and a fettle, unlike the 95 year old origonal !
Japanese Sh1Te !
steven.
www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~pattle/nacc/arc0596.htm
As some of you may know, I enjoy buggering about with some old Villiers 2 stroke engines I have restored.
They are not in any bikes or anything, they are just fixed to lumps of wood, and I enjoy going out of a nice summer evening into the the garden and firing them up.
Tonight was one of those nights.
In the days of photobucket I would currently be uploading photos and videos to show you all my old 2 strokes chuffing away in the garden.
Luckily, you wont be subjected to such drivel tonight, due the the photobucket thing !
Tonight I decided to fire up my two oldest ones, which are both Villiers V1-C and were made in 1922.
One of them I managed to source the correct carb for.
The other one currently has an RD 250 LC carb on it !
I enjoy looking for suitable carbs for them, as they are quite hard to get.
I have various old carbs which I have restored and made up adaptors to suit on my Myford lathe, to mate them to my old Villiers engines.
I have yet to find a carb that these old 2 stroke WONT run with.
I lifted both my 1922 2 stroke engines out the house and into the garden, as they live in doors, in an attempt to keep the magnetos nice and warm and dry.
I poured some 16:1 2 stroke mixture into the first one, with the proper 1920,s carb on it, and it fired up fine and ran perfectly, thats the first it has ran this year.
I ran it for a little while and let it warm up nicely, I let it run for a while and then let it run out of petrol as I normaly do.
I was delighted, my 95 year old 2 strokes first run of the year was spot on.
I then got the other V1-C ready, the one with the 250 LC carb on it, this also has not been run this year yet.
I grabbed my bottle of 16:1 2 stroke mixture and poured it in..... guess what..... petrol pissed everywhere out the 250 LC carb, obviousely the float valve/ needle valve was stuck open.
I gave the carb a little tap with a plastic handled screwdriver in the usual places, but to no avail, it looks like the Nipponese carb requires a strip and a fettle, unlike the 95 year old origonal !
Japanese Sh1Te !
steven.
www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~pattle/nacc/arc0596.htm
