Sunday, 15 February 2026

A bit of a double fail for now

Yesterday was a day of getting stuff done outside .... I'm sure most of us in the UK were out under the weak but full sun for a while.

My first semi fail was of my own making as I came to the boat to do a bit of an exhaust decoke'ing as we were getting carbon out of the exhaust and onto the boat roof. Got the manifold off but forgot the workshop vac and drill to use as a stack sweep and suck.... I can leave it as is and be back with said tools.



There was a lot of carbon on one cylinder compared to the other - I know they are not getting quite the same fuel as I use a temp reader on the exhaust manifold and one is lower than the other. The pumps are adjusted to balance by a bar with locknuts so that needs tweaking to give one cylinder less fuel and the other more fuel ?  I am presuming the 'clean cylinder is doing the work while the dirty cylinder is getting too much fuel hence the carbon build up ? I can double check this with the temp gauge when I have it back together. I appreciate thats a poor description !! 




Then while I had space and the dry weather I decided to have the two passenger seats out of the Peugeot as I'd see a guy fashion a front wheel chock system to get his bike into his van by removing the middle seat. No surprise he'd not answered many Q's on his Youtube vid around the actual process as the only way I could see it being done was to take a hacksaw to parts of the middle seat which i was not happy to do.... so for now .... no Classic motorbike in the van ( But a cub or AJS Imber might well fit !)


This morning weather as usual... 




 

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