This Is The EPIC Soggs 92K75 MAGA Thread

[daveson]

You can't see the valve. It is a part of the front barb or I should say attached to it.

[Soggz]

Ok, got you! The valve is completely solid in mine! I put a small thin screwdriver in there and gave it a little tap. Seems to be open now. Here is the one from the other tank. At some point, mine must have been leaking, as around the bottom of it on the outside around the nut, is some type of liquid metal.

[Soggz]

Not sure if the valve in my tank is stuck open now. Should that matter much?

[daveson]

Clean it well. Stuck open is better than closed but stuck open means it is not properly clean.

[daveson]

Hey szabgab,  just as a side note I'm curious about your title, it looks like a shortening of your names with your family name first. I have a friend from Hungary and Im thinking her family name is the same as yours.

[Soggz]

Can’t take mine out. Looks like it’s beeb JB welded in. It may have leaked in the past.

[daveson]

Maybe just try to clean it then from the outside through the barb. You might be lucky.

[daveson]

If no luck try a longer hose returning through the filler cap as a temporary measure just to see if your bike then runs.

[Soggz]

After 22 pages on this thread, and if cleaning out this little tank valve works.......


Ok. Put it all back together. Plugs came out wet......... but it did try to start!

[Soggz]

I’m stood next to it now, and it’s running! Sometimes it takes more than just ‘ five pages ago’, for me.
I guess I just learn differently. It’s settled down to a nice even 900 revs, now. I would take it for a test ride... but I have no prop shaft!

[Soggz]

Lol... and now it’s stalled and won’t start again.... :bang-head: :bang-head: :laughing-on-ground: :laughing-on-ground: :bang-head:

[Soggz]

Ok. I read on here not to use a resistor plug in these k bikes, as there is already a resister in the lead(?). Motorworks, a bmw place sent me a set of Bosch R0’s. I’m guessing these are resister plugs, hence the ‘R’?.
Perhaps that why it’s not great at starting?


What plugs should I use, if this is the case?


Thanks.


And here are the plugs after the bike ‘breif’  run just now...I’m guessing, too rich?

[Soggz]

Thanks. Yes, these plugs are the same as the ones that came with the bike. They came with a standard service kit, plugs, filters, that sort of thing. In my CX,I have iridium plugs. They too have been great! Just wondering if they would be good in the K bike, if I swopped out the leads for resisterless ones, like on my Honda.


What do you think?

[szabgab]

Thanks. Yes, these plugs are the same as the ones that came with the bike. They came with a standard service kit, plugs, filters, that sort of thing. In my CX,I have iridium plugs. They too have been great! Just wondering if they would be good in the K bike, if I swopped out the leads for resisterless ones, like on my Honda.


What do you think?

Electricity is not my forte so it would be better to ask somebody else. As far as I know, you have to have a resistor somewhere but I do not know, what is the difference of having it in the cable or in the plugs.

Iridium plugs are a waste of money in old bikes apparently, although this could spark yet another 'what kind of oil' war.

I thought you said, you replaced the plugs with the one ordered from motoworks? If you have a set of resistor-less, try them and you will see, if that wakens the bike if not, get the proper type, they are cheap and I am sure a larger Halfords stock them

[Soggz]

Electricity is not my forte so it would be better to ask somebody else. As far as I know, you have to have a resistor somewhere but I do not know, what is the difference of having it in the cable or in the plugs.

Iridium plugs are a waste of money in old bikes apparently, although this could spark yet another 'what kind of oil' war.

I thought you said, you replaced the plugs with the one ordered from motoworks? If you have a set of resistor-less, try them and you will see, if that wakens the bike if not, get the proper type, they are cheap and I am sure a larger Halfords stock them

Iridiums great in my 1982 cx.Just wondered out a 1986 K.

[Soggz]

http://www.ultralightnews.ca/articles/resistorcapsandplugs.htm

[daveson]

You got it going yay👍

Did you reconnect the hose to the valve or are you running a hose through the filler cap opening?

If you reconnected to the valve and it finally started and ran but stopped again the valve is probably blocked again. Clean it again. The whole fuel system probably wants a good clean.

[Soggz]

You got it going yay👍

Did you reconnect the hose to the valve or are you running a hose through the filler cap opening?

If you reconnected to the valve and it finally started and ran but stopped again the valve is probably blocked again. Clean it again. The whole fuel system probably wants a good clean.

Yes, I will find time to take the tank off, and internals out and go through it all again. I must say, it was still quite hard to start. I’m wondering about breaking the jb weld seal and unbolting it to take it out to clean. I suppose I could reseal it again, or look into why it may have been leaking in the first place. Not sure if it has blocked again, as I have put the filler cap back on, and the battery is now flat. ‘It’s on charge, and on a tender’ (Johnny). Hopefully, it blocking itself, is the reason why it won’t start again. I am going to have to start at the beginning and be more methodical, I think.

[szabgab]

Hey szabgab,  just as a side note I'm curious about your title, it looks like a shortening of your names with your family name first. I have a friend from Hungary and Im thinking her family name is the same as yours.

Dave that's right,  my name is Szabó Gabriel,  as we have our names the other way around and my scren name is just a short version out of laziness :)  Szabó is a very common Hungarian surname,  similar to what Smith is to the English

[szabgab]

  I am going to have to start at the beginning and be more methodical, I think.

Good plan :)  Try to run the grass trimmer wire I mentioned earlier through every pipe in the tank,  feed,  return,  overflow,  drain,  the lot

[Soggz]

Good plan :)  Try to run the grass trimmer wire I mentioned earlier through every pipe in the tank,  feed,  return,  overflow,  drain,  the lot

yes, I will.



I normally use a high ‘E’ string from my electric guitar, when cleaning the galleyways in carbs.Same sort of thing.

[daveson]

Goodo I guessed szabo only because our friend has the same name and was guessing Gabriel too yay again👍

I'm guessing you got the spare tank with the bike and your problem may be why the previous owner got it.

You could possibly use the spare tank but it looks like the early version tank so is fixed differently at the back and the electrical plug is probably different.

[Soggz]

Goodo I guessed szabo only because our friend has the same name and was guessing Gabriel too yay again👍

I'm guessing you got the spare tank with the bike and your problem may be why the previous owner got it.

You could possibly use the spare tank but it looks like the early version tank so is fixed differently at the back and the electrical plug is probably different.

yes,completely different fittings,unfortunately.

[daveson]

Another option, sell your spare tank and buy a suitable one.

[Soggz]

You want to buy it?