The head was reworked and warmed up but the bottom was left alone and the PO thought that the rings were shot. The motor has Webers and hasn't been run in several years. After changing all the fluids, I cranked her over and in about 3-4 spins she sputtered to life - barely. I popped it into gear and moved it about 3 feet, applied the brakes and was satisfied that everything seemed to operate properly (motor not withstanding). The forward Weber started drooling fuel and after a backfire followed by a fire I decided to call it a day. I was pleasantly surprised that there was no smoke out the tailpipe.
The next day I swapped in some recently acquired but as yet untested Webers and tried again. More of the same. Rather than continue trying to trouble shoot the carbs which I know absolutely nothing about, I decided to drop in a recently rebuilt 1750 with an Ingram SPICA MFI unit. So today the old motor came out. Tomorrow the new motor goes in and hopefully a maiden voyage late in the day.
Webers, Euro Cams, performance dizzy.
Pretty clean considering all I did was blow it out with compressed air.
A fairly common sight around these parts.
The next day I swapped in some recently acquired but as yet untested Webers and tried again. More of the same. Rather than continue trying to trouble shoot the carbs which I know absolutely nothing about, I decided to drop in a recently rebuilt 1750 with an Ingram SPICA MFI unit. So today the old motor came out. Tomorrow the new motor goes in and hopefully a maiden voyage late in the day.

Webers, Euro Cams, performance dizzy.

Pretty clean considering all I did was blow it out with compressed air.

A fairly common sight around these parts.