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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
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