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news ![]() "Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message .. . "ManhattanMan" wrote in news ![]() Bertie the Bunyip wrote: "muff528" wrote in news:aLQ8j.160$ZA4.59@trnddc03: You should try an MG! Mind you, it was a lot easier to get them into that than the Rambler, but less fun when you got inside. Unless you were realy into getting levers stuck into some uncofortable places (and I bet here's a website somwhere that capitises on exactly that sort of thing) Bertie In the MG you probably had to stop halfway and adjust the SU's. :-) (just perpetrating a myth about them although an old girlfriend insisted on owning Triumphs and they kept me busy.) No myth! I was at the damned things all the time. It was a TD, which wasn't even an anteek then.. Bertie Should have had a 62 Austin Healy - 3 of those damn things on it!! Cool. I knew a guy who had one of those things. Very fast.. BTW - the tonneau cover makes a good substitute for a blanket... ![]() He he. Well, noone could see much of what you were up to with those side curtains... Bertie Actually, they were quite simple to work on.....individually! The trick was to get them to play together well. Very touchy adjustments, especially if the carb (or engine for that matter) had any wear at all. Then there was the problem of getting the carbs to do the same thing at the same time, linkage-wise, which was not necessarily just making sure that throttle positions on each carb matched. Their performance was affected greatly by even a little wear. Kinda like the Amal's on a couple of BSA's I had. TP Amal's are a piece of cake by comparison. The SU's were OK, as you say, individually, (I've had a few cars with single SUs, including Minors, Minis and what not) and even a couple weren't too bad, but they were alwyas needing a bit of tinkering with to keep them sweet. OTOH, I have an old BMW R80 which has been driving me nuts. Bings, which should work just fine, but I think I must have rebuilt them wrong.... BTW, I have a couple of old AMAC carbs as well, the predecesser of AMAL. Very similar design, but even more primitive. You run them with a pair of air/fuel levers on the handlebars. I haven't run it yet, but it looks pretty interesting to ride.. Bertie |
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