Turns out what I thought was just an overfilled fuel tank appears to be a leak in the left tank. I’m going to have to pull the tanks off and pressure test them to try and find the hole. Hopefully its just a small hole and wont take much to repair.
Today I went out and got a good fuel filter. Got home put it on and and went for a ride. Mostly I went to fill up the tank with some Gas. But in the mean time I thought I would actually log a few miles and I did. I went about 7.2 miles just in the neighborhood mostly cause I wanted to stay out of traffic. Marlin ran relay well and started with very little trouble. There Is a front end shimmy between 30 and 55 mph but it cruses nicely at 60. I hope the brakes just need to be de-glazed otherwise stopping will always be exiting and most travailing will be done in the Right lane. 🙁
New problems noted.
front end shimmy
tanks easy to over fill
Brakes are week
and tripometer does not work (yesterday went from 110-112 today stayed at 112).
I also started to polish the aluminum today. It is sure going to take some elbow grease to get it shiny.
This has been a great weekend so far. We had our first Football game of the season last night and it was a good night. CO was the underdog to a very good Yuba City JV team. But in the end our Wolves prevailed 21-14. Then the varsity one a squeaker 22-21 by stopping a 2 point conversion with 1 min left in the game. Now for the best part.
Grandpa, Rat, n New Kid
Steve “Hawg” and Bill from Australia (no it was not a special visit from Aus. he was already here) came down from same said Yuba to check out Marlin and help diagnose the bikes stalling issues. They had come to the same conclusion I had. It was probably the crapy secondary fuel filter. So we took the fuel filter out and opened up both the primary and reserve fuel valves on the petcock. As an aside Hawg said the replica petcock was probably going to be another chocking point for the fuel delivery. But with both valves open it worked fine around the block, we’ll see how it works on the highway. Hawg also went all around the jugs and tightened all the nuts. Then we took some rides. With Bill being an Ausi. we thought it would be great to get some pix of him on a clasic American machine.
Hawg and Bill on Marlin
So I got some great news. First off I am subscribed to Hawg Ryder’s tech formum. The other day I posted a question on a good local’ish shop to get the engine of Marlin checked out and fixed. As expected I got the name of Bill’s MC. Now I’m looking forward to visiting this place. Now for the more then expected response. Hawg is going to come down and take a look at Marlin and go over it with me for a complete diagnosis. Then depending on what needs to be done he will help me here in my garage or we can take it up to his garage and fix’er up. I’m so happy I’m almost giggly.