Troubles at restart after long storage.
Posted: Sat May 16, 2015 3:47 am
Hello, I need your experience.
I made the mistake to unuse my fat chick over some 5 years.
She was stored in a place where I had little trouble restarting after a year or two, just the clutch sometimes stiky but easy to free.
I understimated, the place for dryness over time and winters, and she and I grew older.
1 The ignition was dead. I don' t understand, it was running well before strorage. I had to change breaker, condenser and the coil ( one from a small renault car in a junk yard ).
I' ll buy a new coil.
Are blue coils worth it ? Is that true there are fake blue coils, the real one being with solid insulation inside instead of oil as in regular black coils ?
2 Spark plugs.
I could not remove the left rear one. I did not dare to apply the force yet ( breaker bar and more ) because I fear the awfull story I had on another car left for years in a dump garage ( plug broke, extracting did extract the broken bit...but, extracting all with the thread.....had to fix with an insert ).
How much torque can it stand ? Is it safer on a cold or warm engine ?
It was hard to remove the right rear plug. The plug thread was not oily black but filled with a white deposit. Is that normal ?
I did not go at the two front plugs yet.
3 Hopefully carbs seem ok. It spits backfires and stalls at cold starting, but it clears after a while and I get a smooth 950 rpm idling.
I was told about additives in gas to clean carbs. Is that worth it or just snake oil ?
I filled up. There was very little old gas in the tank, so now it is running on good gas.
4 The clutch was terribly stuck. It took miles of driving to get it free. So bad I was to consider engine removal when at last it got free with a big shaking and scary noise.
It seems things are back to normal with cluch and transmission. Is there someting to check or do more ?
Is there some preventive measure to prevent future clutch stucking ?
I always store with the parking brake off.
Would it make sense to store with the cluch pedal blocked at the floor ? Theoretically springs don' t wear under tension over time, but who knows about springs and other issues for a clutch left declutched over years ?
I made the mistake to unuse my fat chick over some 5 years.
She was stored in a place where I had little trouble restarting after a year or two, just the clutch sometimes stiky but easy to free.
I understimated, the place for dryness over time and winters, and she and I grew older.
1 The ignition was dead. I don' t understand, it was running well before strorage. I had to change breaker, condenser and the coil ( one from a small renault car in a junk yard ).
I' ll buy a new coil.
Are blue coils worth it ? Is that true there are fake blue coils, the real one being with solid insulation inside instead of oil as in regular black coils ?
2 Spark plugs.
I could not remove the left rear one. I did not dare to apply the force yet ( breaker bar and more ) because I fear the awfull story I had on another car left for years in a dump garage ( plug broke, extracting did extract the broken bit...but, extracting all with the thread.....had to fix with an insert ).
How much torque can it stand ? Is it safer on a cold or warm engine ?
It was hard to remove the right rear plug. The plug thread was not oily black but filled with a white deposit. Is that normal ?
I did not go at the two front plugs yet.
3 Hopefully carbs seem ok. It spits backfires and stalls at cold starting, but it clears after a while and I get a smooth 950 rpm idling.
I was told about additives in gas to clean carbs. Is that worth it or just snake oil ?
I filled up. There was very little old gas in the tank, so now it is running on good gas.
4 The clutch was terribly stuck. It took miles of driving to get it free. So bad I was to consider engine removal when at last it got free with a big shaking and scary noise.
It seems things are back to normal with cluch and transmission. Is there someting to check or do more ?
Is there some preventive measure to prevent future clutch stucking ?
I always store with the parking brake off.
Would it make sense to store with the cluch pedal blocked at the floor ? Theoretically springs don' t wear under tension over time, but who knows about springs and other issues for a clutch left declutched over years ?
