Re: Smoking problem
Hi 63 evin<br />If you just rebuilt your motor it should smoke. As someone on this board put it, it should smoke like a camp fire in the rain. You should run double the oil during the initial start-up and break-in period (that's a 25:1 ratio). Remember during the over-haul the needle bearing greese and assembly lube all needs to get burned out of there. Then there is the question Solittle asked. It sounds to me like the main nozzel gasket in the carb is missing or needs replaced. Be sure when you set the needle valves you remove the knobs and or linkages. This will help insure you in fact lightly seat and back out each neeedle correctly. It took me a year and a half once to figure out that a large chrome knob had been jammed too far on the the needle valve. This allowed the knob to bottom out, not the needle. Once you have your carb problem sorted out, and you get responce from your needle adjustments. After a few minutes running, dial in the needles ( usually they need leaned some), the smoke will clear to a tolerable level, even running double oil. Of course after break-in go with 50:1. Don't go too lean, too lean = no oil, let her smoke some for a while.
