eBike

Saturday I had a little housewarming party, but Sunday I shopped for the bike and did some work. I pulled the body panels, gas tank, air cleaner and carbs.

Here’s a closeup of where the carbs used to be:

Here are the carbs (they’re upside down).

This is one of the float chamber covers. The brown coloration is 15 years worth of gasoline congealing on it.

Since these pictures, I’ve removed the fast & slow jets, jet holder, float and float valve from one of the carbs. They’re sitting in carb cleaner. I’m trying to find a cleaning kit of some kind, something with pins I can use to clean out the jets; the carb cleaner is not enough.

Here’s the gas tank. It needs to be cleaned and have the rust removed. Eventually, I will cut out the bottom, knock out the dents, and put it back on the bike. It will probably house the charge controllers and some of the cells. While it would be clever to have the charging plug inside the gas cap, that might not actually be the most convenient place for it. We’ll see.