Gas tanks curing in the sun

BARNEY’S JOURNAL

Oct 25, 08		Chinese takeout
Feb 07, 08		Cleaning Barney
Jan 31, 08		Barney beheaded
Nov 05, 07		Top end gasket set
Oct 28, 07		Compression Test
Oct 14, 07		A Look at the Timing Chain Area
Oct 08, 07		Last Look Under the Clutch Outer Cover
Oct 02, 07		First Look Under the Clutch Outer Cover
Aug 22, 07		Acorn Nut and Cam tensioner
Aug 21, 07		Let's do an oil change
Jul 14, 07		And exhaust valve tappet
Jul 13, 07		First look at the intake valve tappet
Mar 31, 07		Intake pipe gasketing
Mar 29, 07		Carburetor and petcock rebuild
Mar 12, 07		Engine clean up day
Mar 11, 07		The great "de-barning" of Red
Feb 13, 07		Carb opened and a peek into the frame
Feb 12, 07		Fuel system removal and throttle system

March 29, 2007: Carburetor and petcock rebuild

The carburater and petcock BEFORE and AFTER page:

If you remember, the first look inside the carb...
float bowl and jet bottoms

Notice the petrified float bowl gasket. That had to be replaced. All parts soaked in carb cleaner. Then final overnight soak in Simple Green finally got the jets and air passages loose enough to be cleaned out with pipe cleaners, etc.

Everything is pretty clean. But we need the float bowl gasket.

carb plus missing parts

And here it is with the rest of the jets, etc. Wish it fit in properly! I had to trim it in four places in order for a proper fit!

Now if you remember the carb outside BEFORE...
the carb before...

From 2/13/2007

Here it is AFTER cleaning.
carb assembled with gasket trimmings!

In the lower left are the trimmings of the float bowl gasket!

carb assembled

Just another view

Now the fuel shut-off BEFORE picture again.
shut off before

Just about everything leaked here, especially the hoses which were petrified.

AFTER the same treatment as the carburater...
shut off cleaned and apart

The four hole gasket was deteriorated, so it had to be replaced.

shut off plus new gasket

With new gasket ready to go.

113 shut off assembled

Finally assembled.

Now the final hurdles of the fuel system: the rust in the tank, and sealing the intake manifold (pipe) at the carburater-insulator end and the cylinder head end, with the proper gaskets.