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Tech. Advice: Series 'B' / 'C' 500cc/1000cc Bikes
Vincent Float Bowl Setting 289's
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<blockquote data-quote="CarlHungness" data-source="post: 173899" data-attributes="member: 2517"><p>I was measuring height of the fuel in the float bowl...have discovered my Setting of the ATD was not strong enough as I am positive when I set it the ears were at the top, and went to check it today, and they were at 11 o'clock with my piston stop in and should have been at 12 o'clock. So removed timing chest cover, have re-lapped ATD and will re-set it tomorrow...and maybe that was my problem..the plot started, ran great..then possibly the ATD slipped..it moves A LOT when set properly..maybe 3/16" and I wasn't hitting it hard enough to move it that far..I checked it in a vise, set it and watched how far back the ATD moved on the shaft, and I'm pretty sure I did NOT move it back onto the taper as much as I should have...made this mistake probably 3 times, so a bit embarrassed...and will find out tomorrow. Put the float bowl on with top finger tight, turned on the fuel, took the top off and can see the level is just about the height of the air screw, so don't think that's my problem...I DID cause a problem for lots of members if the ATD setting was duff. If she starts all I can do is apologize and have a sigh of relief. And surmise the B-TH WAS iffy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CarlHungness, post: 173899, member: 2517"] I was measuring height of the fuel in the float bowl...have discovered my Setting of the ATD was not strong enough as I am positive when I set it the ears were at the top, and went to check it today, and they were at 11 o'clock with my piston stop in and should have been at 12 o'clock. So removed timing chest cover, have re-lapped ATD and will re-set it tomorrow...and maybe that was my problem..the plot started, ran great..then possibly the ATD slipped..it moves A LOT when set properly..maybe 3/16" and I wasn't hitting it hard enough to move it that far..I checked it in a vise, set it and watched how far back the ATD moved on the shaft, and I'm pretty sure I did NOT move it back onto the taper as much as I should have...made this mistake probably 3 times, so a bit embarrassed...and will find out tomorrow. Put the float bowl on with top finger tight, turned on the fuel, took the top off and can see the level is just about the height of the air screw, so don't think that's my problem...I DID cause a problem for lots of members if the ATD setting was duff. If she starts all I can do is apologize and have a sigh of relief. And surmise the B-TH WAS iffy. [/QUOTE]
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