Amal 932 report

Well my carbs are back from Lund and reinstalled. The slides are silky smooth, no more rattle and roll.
Any way I decided to install the stay up floats from Amal UK. Took awhile to arrive so the carbs just sat
for several weeks on bike minus float bowls.
Kinda glad I waited for floats as it gave me time to prep the bowls.
I remembered here about checking the bowls on a piece of glass.
I was shocked how much they teetered fore and aft on the glass.
It looks like previous owner or mechanic tightened the death out of the orig. posi drive screws
bowing the bowls ears upward. Detectable to the eye if you know to look for it.
I used a 80 grit aluminum oxide metal sand paper to take them down till no perceiveable teetering
was present. Then I finished them off with 220 grit.
New gasket no goop needed and presto a leak free fuel delivery system.
I always had a pesky weeping out of the float bowl since I've owned - not any more.
I set the floats to 80 thousands below far edge of bowl it was a snap with the newstyle floats.
Where were these 20 years ago?
Kicked a bit after tickling , ticked right up without any excessive weeping out the tickler .
Finally caught and warmed up to normal running speed.
Slides are balanced air screw out 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 turns.
Test ride proved it was all worth it. Bike ran like it must have when it was new.
Rapped the throttle no flat spots off idle and jumped right up to 5500 rpms effortlessly.
Probably best $ I've spent on improving the Queen.
Learned allot from this site :mrgreen:
Marshal

Lifes good when the Amals are performing well, Marshal. You should find the resleeved units last a lot longer than originals.

Cheers Richard

What happens next week though?

Richard,
yeah, Andy told me when I asked him how long between resleeves that he has customer bikes with over 20,000 miles
and still in service on 1st resleeve.
He said he can get about 3 resleeves out of a set of Amal's if not warped too bad.
About half the price of new carbs and not so sure of quality control on new ones? :roll:
Full Auto ask me next week and I'll give you another update. :wink:
Next is the lay shaft bearing I've been talking about since May but have been putting off :shock:
Marshal

I had mine sleeved about 30K ago and no issues. What amazes me is how well Amals work when properly set up! Mine starts first kick, no warm up needed, and no flat sports throughout the rev range.

bmwbob said:

I had mine sleeved about 30K ago and no issues. What amazes me is how well Amals work when properly set up! Mine starts first kick, no warm up needed, and no flat sports throughout the rev range.

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Mine have 80,000 miles or so with stainless sleeves.

-Eric

Eric/Bob,
I'm lovin the mileage you both got out of yours :mrgreen:
Sweet.
Now I can move south of the carbs and look into my gearbox.
Marshal