Triumph Bonneville, Amal carb install, Amal carbs, 1973 historic triumph.
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Sounds like a good old boy now mate. Really suits John too!
Suits Charlie too, think he'd enjoy it more than his Harley.
Clutch and brake are on the wrong side lol
Sounds epic.
Its a pretty amazing sounding bike.
I‘ve used long nosed pliers to hold the compressed carb spring back that gives me enough cable to comfortably feed the ends into the slides.
Yes I've also done that at times. I do worry about the cable when I do that but it's always fine.
Piece of cake when the throttle grip is free from the cables which gives enough cable length.
Doing the grips last takes seconds on me 1972 BSA A65L 😉
What I do to hook the cables on is hold the assembly upside down and look through the hole in the slide to line up the cable nipple, then push the slide onto the cable. It's always a fiddly job, but necessary every time I take the cables out to oil them. The tickler just holds the float down to raise the fuel level and give it the extra rich mixture to get it started, so there's no need to pump it, just hold it down until the fuel starts to come out round it. It makes a mess after a while, but you just have to get the carb cleaner out from time to time. I always synchronise my throttles by a simple, low tech method - slacken off cable adjusters and throttle stop screws to allow slides to bottom out, then insert a piece of stiff wire, about 3 inches long under each slide. When you open the throttle, you can see whether both start to move at the same time, and adjust the individual cables as necessary. Once the cables are synched, you can use the same method on the throttle stop screws. It's worked for me for the 29 years I've had my 78 T140V. Good luck with getting it finished. PS, there are several variations of the carb tops, which have different cable adjusters. Yours look like mine, which have a plain ferrule on the end of the cables, and mid-cable adjusters. Do you have the 1-into-2 cable set-up with junction box on yours?
These cables are wrong for the amal carbs. These have adjustment for the top of the mikuni carbs but that's not possible on the amals. So I need to get the hat ones with mid adjustments as you said. I think it will be good to go o ce thats done.
Do you have any advice on as to why the left side exhaust/engine warms up a fair amount slower then the right? Carbs are jetted the same and correctly, valves are done, engine is rebuilt recently.
Again thanks for all of your advice
@@motorcyclerescuer It shouldn't be an ignition issue, as you have a whole new system, and any fault would affect both cylinders. Have you compared the colour of the plugs, to see if you've got an imbalance in the mixture? The pilot jet on these mk 1 concentrics can get blocked, even if they have been overhauled, because it is very difficult to get to, and carb cleaner and compressed air blown through the drillings is not always enough to clear it. If you take out the pilot air screw from the side of the carb, the pilot jet is at the far end of that passage. I use a single strand of an old throttle cable to probe it and make sure it's clear, then flush all the pilot circuit passages with carb cleaner and compressed air. There are youtube videos covering this process.
I think I'll give that a go soon Rick. The mikuni carbs did the same thing though.
I think its ok, definitely running well on both anyway. Could even be that 1 exhaust is using slightly thicker or different metal to the other.
You have inspired me to get back onto it soon and have another look at it.
Cheers mate.
Nice to watch a couple of guys tinkering with a nice piece of British engineering in the sunshine - great work chaps! 👍🔧
Yes its pretty cool Mike
Well done Charlie/John sounds amazing 50 year old bike it's a credit to you for your deadaction true classic 👍.
I was winging this one if I'm being honest Colin. It has been nice working on it though.
Typically the left tap has a shorter pipe into the tank. You run it with the right one on and left one off. When it runs out you can reach down and switch the left one on and you are on reserve. Like all these things you need then to remember to switch it off when you fill up.
I think these are the same on both but I'll double check again at some point.
Blind leading the blind I think.
Your not wrong
I hope John is coming back, to see us
I'm not sure how much he will be around actually. I believe he's moving to Bristol soon.
Quite complicated those old Amals🤔are all the nuts and bolts imperial sizes?
Yes they are Derek.
I'll have to get one to fit my socket set lol,only ever used the metric ones 🤔
I've got some in my socket set but no spanners
well done guys, loved watching you do that. when you started it up and it was burning off all the grease, I swear I could smell it LOL (might be my laptop overheating though)
Lol if you smell any more burning do check it out
Have you got rubber grease ( red ) ?
What size are those mikuni carbs ie hsr42 etc?
Yes I've got rubber grease I believe. What you thinking?
I'll have to look at the carbs and get back to you
@@motorcyclerescuer wasn't thinking anything, just that you said you'd grease them up...normal or rubber hence question lol.
Hoping those carbs might fit my harley....more fuel + more air = bang : )
You obviously don’t know the basic principles of British bikes. It’s a pain to watch and I recommend buying a workshop manual and investigate how things are supposed to work
Your absolutely right