The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2
Technical Discussion => BMW Technical Q&A, Primarily R65 => Topic started by: Justin B. on November 17, 2006, 07:21:09 PM
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Woo-Hoo!!! The '82 ran for about 10 seconds, about long enough to kill all of the bugs who haven't frozen to death yet... ;D
I have good strong spark but my carb-jigsaw must have a piece or two out of place. I cranked it to death and not a spurt, pulled both chokes wide open, cracked the throttle, and it reluctantly grumbled to life in a giant cloud of smoke :o and wouldn't stay running after I let go of the chokes... :-/ But, it's some amount of progress.
I then pulled the plugs and put half a dozen squirts of motor oil in each, put plugs back in, and turned it over a couple of times. During cranking the oil pressure light extinguished after a couple of strokes and after starting no internal parts tried to escape and I heard no knocking or other equally scary noises. I'll let everything marinate 'til tomorrow, check the enrichers to make sure I have them on the correct sides, and try it again.
Of course, I had one carb that felt it had to piss all over the patio (it is a Beemer with Bings, after all) so I'll check the needle on that one. I used one new and one used needle, the incontinent one probably has the old needle, but I had to try it. I have never been one for throwing brand new parts at something if'n the old ones will still function. I did use new floats and even changed the throttle shaft O-rings. Of course I had to change them as the seller had done a TOTAL disassembly - no half-a$$ing it with that guy!
More to come...
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Congrats on getting it to turn over!