Shaking down an old dog

The carbs came from a Bonnie, it still acts lean to me. I have number three slides in the carbs, the needles seem to measure about the same as Norton ones. I'm currently wondering if the Triumph jetting is too lean. I didn't look to see how it was jetted when I got them from the rebuilder. Anybody know much about swapping Amals from Triumphs to Nortons? I do see the little casting on the inside may need to be trimmed.
 
After a test run where she went down to one cylinder and fouled the left plug I reckoned I'd best look at that carb. As I started the teardown the jet assembly fell out when I pulled the drain plug. I had wanted to get the bike running quickly so as not to miss the nice days of last fall and I skipped the step of checking the other guy's work, I just put the rebuilt carbs directly on the bike and ran it. This explains why I could not seem to get any consistent adjustment, as the jet unscrewed everything changed.
I know better than that so now I'm trying to decide if I should just bite the bullet and tear down these carbs and go over everything. It would be so easy to just tighten up the jets but that might lead to more frustration.
 
I'm afraid you're right. I think the loose jet caused the clip to fail and I'm thinking there is something not quite right with the float assembly too. I'm waiting for my wife to call right now but tomorrow I'll at least pull this carb that is causing problems. Any reason I couldn't switch on the float chamber from my 930 that the float worked well on?
 
My wife had nothing on her list when she came home form the gym which gave me time to pull these carbs and look them over. I did not see anything amiss or loose on the right hand one but the left hand carb does have something odd with the float bowl going on. I blew though the passages and they seem clean in that carb. Rather than sort the left hand floatbowl I'll leave that job until later and test it with my know good one. I understand that may not always work but I'll take a chance and leave the other bowl and float setting for a rainy day.
In short the other floatbowl and float worked fine, no leaking, sticking, or overflow. The bike started on one kick and I have tuned it by ear enough to ride. She does not seem to be fouling out and pulls nicely now.
Progress at least, and perhaps after some gardening I'll get to work on it tomorrow a bit.
 
Cookie said:
My wife had nothing on her list when she came home form the gym which gave me time to pull these carbs and look them over. I did not see anything amiss or loose on the right hand one but the left hand carb does have something odd with the float bowl going on. I blew though the passages and they seem clean in that carb. Rather than sort the left hand floatbowl I'll leave that job until later and test it with my know good one. I understand that may not always work but I'll take a chance and leave the other bowl and float setting for a rainy day.
In short the other floatbowl and float worked fine, no leaking, sticking, or overflow. The bike started on one kick and I have tuned it by ear enough to ride. She does not seem to be fouling out and pulls nicely now.
Progress at least, and perhaps after some gardening I'll get to work on it tomorrow a bit.
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I hate gardening, but I think I would at least pretend to like it if I could ride all year :mrgreen:

Happy new year

Jean
 
I think gardening is a good reason to move to a condo. I have a couple of city units like that, one townhouse and an apartment in New Zealand. It is so much nicer to have the little set back area and garage like I have now.
When I move to Kiwi I hope to have a little setback garage, I would prefer an entire concrete yard but my wife likes her garden.
 
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