Me again - really need some help...

mjltigger said:

problem is finding them.. the only person I have found who can supply them doesn't have any onfo on this dizzy so doesn't know what size to send me..

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Baumann Springs in Sherborne manufacture all sorts of springs, did hear that they may be closing but they might be worth a call.

ere tigger said it looked like a concrete block didnt i ,glad to hear that it sorted the over heating, just got to get that timing sorted :doh:

UPDATE
At the weekend I replaced both eggsause marigolds and gaskets top and bottom (eggsauce to marigold and marigold to head) as well as the airbox and the MAF...

while I was at it I found that three of the plug leads had come off the plugs.. so no wonder it was running worse and worse..

anyway, the new maf and the good manifolds seem to have done the trick except:

twice I have had to stop and refit plug leads at the plug end that have come off.. each time it has been one of the ones that were off at the weekend: 4, 5 and 6. seems odd they keep popping off.. anyone know what can cause it?

on tickover the revs are very low.. so low that a couple of times it has stalled and when not stalling it sounds very rough and is shaking the engine in its mounts.. perfectly fine driving in fact quieter and more torquey than any time since I've owned it.. i can't seem to find any suggestion of a tickover adjuster on it... anyone know what the solution is?

try a better quality plug lead,they should not come off that easy.

they haven't come off since although I am fanatical about checking them so I will give it a little longer. They are silicon and they weren't cheap so I owuld have thought they would be OK.. but time will tell..

it is running so nicely I am just waiting to see what will go wrong next..

I would really like to sort out the tickover thing though if anyone knows where to start looking.

Might be worth looking at each plug cap.

You should be able to get a pair of thin-nose or long-nose pliers in them to squeeze the actual connector piece together so it holds tighter and makes a better connection. Shouldn't need a lot of squeezing, you certainly shouldn't squeeze 'em flat, just a mm or so smaller than the plug connector diameter ...

It helped my old series when I replaced the plug caps with some for a motorbike that needed the little alloy 'top-hat' on the plug. Larger diameter made a better connection.

Injun?

Nah, Fantic 305 trials bike ..