Well so I'm trying to figure out why my Brat is running like crap the past few days and so today I was checkin it out on my lunch and WOO my carb is loose AGAIN!!! I tightened it up once and I had put some locktight on the bolts but I guess it still didn't hold... Why did this happen? And since the carb is loose (well the adapter to manifold is loose) it is leaking some water from the water passage that comes up to the base of the carb. *sigh* why does this happen to me this close to the show?

just a thought... is the throttle cable arranged ina way that its like trying to yank the carb off when you floor it?? Just a thought, not really sure what else to suggest.

Well, I think we figured out the loosening problem last night. Some non-fuel-impervious silicone was used on the carb gasket, and it was getting eaten away by the fuel in the manifold. Now it won't run right for some reason though. We screwed with the timing and stuff last night at like 10:30 in Andrew's driveway but couldn't get it figured out. Maybe a plug fouled from the little bit of water that probably got down the carb from cleaning the oil off of the engine (another story).

 

 

Edit: Oh, whoops. This is actually Snowman. I forgot to sign in with my account.