Amal Retentive

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Yup, use a shortened allen wrench and make sure you tighten everything down firmly and use loctite on the bolts. You run the possibilty of sucking a bolt into the intake manifold, thus into the valve. DAMHIK.
 
Yes it can bite your engine innards, but heck my first Combat ingested a thumb nail size piece of carb slide and ran great for 1000's miles like that till looked in to see all the peckering and Amal reason. I just nip up real hard as don't want to fight the loctite taking back off. Warning experience noted and properly pensive again.
Just don't seem to be any easy shortcuts, labor savers, to keep Commandos intact.

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One could be lucky there. While on the way to the INR in Spain, on the 750 of a mate of mine one of the allen bolts in the single-carb manifold came loose and danced around in there. He only noticed it from an irregular running bike as obviously air came in from outside. At the rallye, he took the head off, apparently very little damage there (not sure if he had to change the valve). Bike was fine for the remainder of the rallye and the trip home.
 
slupdawg said:
Yup, use a shortened allen wrench and make sure you tighten everything down firmly and use loctite on the bolts. You run the possibilty of sucking a bolt into the intake manifold, thus into the valve. DAMHIK.
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How on God's-green-earth can one of the Amal manifold bolts get sucked in?
 
swooshdave said:
slupdawg said:
Yup, use a shortened allen wrench and make sure you tighten everything down firmly and use loctite on the bolts. You run the possibilty of sucking a bolt into the intake manifold, thus into the valve. DAMHIK.
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How on God's-green-earth can one of the Amal manifold bolts get sucked in?
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He was talking about a singe carb manifold.
One could be lucky there. While on the way to the INR in Spain, on the 750 of a mate of mine one of the allen bolts in the single-carb manifold came loose and danced around in there.
 
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