pahusky
Husqvarna
Pro Class
The road trip to Ohio was uneventful. To the track to sign up and off to the hotel, this trip took an unexpected pleasant turn…imagine who we ran into at the hotel; Glenn Kearney...
Some good conversation, equal exchange of best wishes.
I have been having some trouble with gas overflow out of the carb bowl hose. Thought I had this fixed. Got to the track early Sunday, Andy went for Tech Inspection, came back with fuel free flowing again. I pulled the carb, reset the float level, and put it back on the bike…Now no fuel flow??? Pulled the carb, again… reset the level, blew through all the holes, vents, fill spout…some panic setting in, not long till lineup… this time, no overflow and the bike ran, we'll go with it…
This was the morning race at 10AM.
26 bikes on the 200 C, Schoolboy line. About 10 rows back in this mass…
Very long up hill start…got pulled by the 200's ended up about mid pack into the woods.
The lap times were around the 1/2 hour mark. He came thru in 6th on the first lap. Than 6th, 7th and 7th for the next three. The last lap sign came out at 2 hours and 10 minutes. This is supposed to be a 2 hour event.
With 1 more 1/2 hour lap to go I decided to gas him. I don't think the IMS would go 2 1/2 hours at race pace.
At this point he was still on the lead lap and the time spread between him in 7th and 4th place was 22 seconds. I'm not sure where it came from but he put the hammer down when others were fading and came through the finish 4th. He pulled to within 25 seconds of 3rd (another WR125!) and finished 40 seconds ahead of 5th.
Ended up 4th in class out of 26 bikes and 43rd overall out of 402 bikes.
He felt pretty good, said he did not go down once. That's a first. Suspension must be working some what right.
Cracked the engine head stays…all else seems ok. Andy said there was and I heard a bog the last couple of turns; the carb vent hoses were clogged solid, I hope this was the cause. I need to re-rout apparently. I did some simple air box mods the keep the slop out; it worked will post pictures.
Some good conversation, equal exchange of best wishes.
I have been having some trouble with gas overflow out of the carb bowl hose. Thought I had this fixed. Got to the track early Sunday, Andy went for Tech Inspection, came back with fuel free flowing again. I pulled the carb, reset the float level, and put it back on the bike…Now no fuel flow??? Pulled the carb, again… reset the level, blew through all the holes, vents, fill spout…some panic setting in, not long till lineup… this time, no overflow and the bike ran, we'll go with it…
This was the morning race at 10AM.
26 bikes on the 200 C, Schoolboy line. About 10 rows back in this mass…
Very long up hill start…got pulled by the 200's ended up about mid pack into the woods.
The lap times were around the 1/2 hour mark. He came thru in 6th on the first lap. Than 6th, 7th and 7th for the next three. The last lap sign came out at 2 hours and 10 minutes. This is supposed to be a 2 hour event.
With 1 more 1/2 hour lap to go I decided to gas him. I don't think the IMS would go 2 1/2 hours at race pace.
At this point he was still on the lead lap and the time spread between him in 7th and 4th place was 22 seconds. I'm not sure where it came from but he put the hammer down when others were fading and came through the finish 4th. He pulled to within 25 seconds of 3rd (another WR125!) and finished 40 seconds ahead of 5th.
Ended up 4th in class out of 26 bikes and 43rd overall out of 402 bikes.
He felt pretty good, said he did not go down once. That's a first. Suspension must be working some what right.
Cracked the engine head stays…all else seems ok. Andy said there was and I heard a bog the last couple of turns; the carb vent hoses were clogged solid, I hope this was the cause. I need to re-rout apparently. I did some simple air box mods the keep the slop out; it worked will post pictures.
Andy does keep up with the current events on Cafehusky…