teazer said:
The z50R had a different head design and they moved to a "flat top" piston that was a bit shorter on the 79 and up models. This is supposed to be correct for a z50A but my guess is just crappy QC.
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The z50R had a different head design and they moved to a "flat top" piston that was a bit shorter on the 79 and up models. This is supposed to be correct for a z50A but my guess is just crappy QC.
Check your head. Let me re-phrase that. The head on that motor and see how it matches.
Have you checked for rub marks to see where it' has "negative clearance"? Almost all our Honda builds ( with non OEM pistons) needs the valve pockets machining. If the rub is on the face, try to cut the seats back a little. If it's on the outer edge, are the valves the right size or oversize? Is the cam close to stock lift and duration? That will cause rubs every time.....
Have you checked for rub marks to see where it' has "negative clearance"? Almost all our Honda builds ( with non OEM pistons) needs the valve pockets machining. If the rub is on the face, try to cut the seats back a little. If it's on the outer edge, are the valves the right size or oversize? Is the cam close to stock lift and duration? That will cause rubs every time.....
teazer said:
AFAIK the head is all stock, and the cam as well.
The rub marks can be seen on the "lips" at the upper and lower edge of the piston in the valve pockets - those "lips" that are supposed to be machined off in production. I well get a pic of the piston showing the rub marks later.
So I contacted the vendor about the piston, turns out its a known bad batch and they "didn't think they had any more of those in stock." Looks like I'll just end up grinding down those protruding edges on the valve pockets. Good thing I ordered a second set of piston pin circlips. :
Got my money back for the piston, ended up filing down the lips on the valve pockets. Got it reinstalled but I think there’s some crap in the ring groove so I need to remedy that so I can reinstall the top end.
Switching gears, I fought with breaking the beads on the wheels for about an hour the other day before giving up. I was going to take them to a tire shop but decided to give it one more shot. What I ended up doing was cutting a section of the tire out with a sawzall, and then taking the angle grinder almost tangent to the rim and slicing the metal in the bead. Once I got through the steel wire in the bead, the tire fell right off.
If you’re careful, you can do it without touching the rim with the cutoff wheel. What I did was cut 3/4 of the way through the bead, then stick a tire spoon behind the bead and pry it out a bit to make some space. Then finish cutting through the wires using the spoon as a backer.
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Switching gears, I fought with breaking the beads on the wheels for about an hour the other day before giving up. I was going to take them to a tire shop but decided to give it one more shot. What I ended up doing was cutting a section of the tire out with a sawzall, and then taking the angle grinder almost tangent to the rim and slicing the metal in the bead. Once I got through the steel wire in the bead, the tire fell right off.
If you’re careful, you can do it without touching the rim with the cutoff wheel. What I did was cut 3/4 of the way through the bead, then stick a tire spoon behind the bead and pry it out a bit to make some space. Then finish cutting through the wires using the spoon as a backer.
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I put the carb in the ultrasonic a few weeks back and started cleaning out some of the passages. If anyone is familiar with these carbs...this brass tube seems to be some sort of pilot jet but it’s completely clogged. It almost feels like I’m hitting metal when I poke at it from the bowl side. But there’s a small hole inside the carb throat that leads down to it. There’s nothing called out as a pilot jet in the carb diagram though. The carb diagram in the FSM shows a slow jet but it looks like a traditional jet and not what I have here.
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cbrianroll
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I need to clean ours, I'll get back to you, hopefully in a few hours.
That's a Z50a carb drawing, but you have a Z50r/XR50 carb. Try heating the jet and see if you can soften whatever is in there. Also, make sure you wire is not too thick. Like a couple strands of electrical wire thin.
Use a lighter
cbrianroll
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If I was a millennial I probably could have sent you a link to that post instead of a primative photo.
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