Amal Retentive

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.

Does anyone know the screw size on the top and bowl screws? Are they "funny"?

On mine they are 2 BA, so not 'funny'!

daveh said:

On mine they are 2 BA, so not 'funny'!

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You live "over there" so I think you wouldn't find them "funny". :mrgreen:

I use castle nuts on the inner carb studs so they can be tapped up snug with a needle punch from time to time


Tim Kraakevik
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