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Offline Greybeard

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Re: £SRM?
« Reply #15 on: 11.09. 2018 08:57 »
Thank you guys. I'm interested to hear opinions on the end-feed conversion.
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Re: £SRM?
« Reply #16 on: 11.09. 2018 09:08 »
Total waste of time & money on A 7's & 10's unless you are running them at 9000 + rpm with 15:1 pistons
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Re: £SRM?
« Reply #17 on: 11.09. 2018 09:14 »
Had my A10 SRM converted in 1984. Done many many miles since then including commuting. Would not want to go back to struggling with a bush, reaming and shims. Works perfectly. No crank end float to set, better oil feed to the big ends, no pressure drop when the bush wears.

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Re: £SRM?
« Reply #18 on: 11.09. 2018 09:15 »
It's not on my wish list, I think the conversion was developed for racing by Devimead.
The standard set up has been well proved for over sixty years.
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Re: £SRM?
« Reply #19 on: 11.09. 2018 09:23 »
God-knows how many thousands of A's did God knows how many miles, day in day out under often arduous conditions with crappy oil and all on the standard set up.
A couple of thousand summer miles gently ridden isn't going to over-tax it now.

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Re: £SRM?
« Reply #20 on: 14.09. 2018 16:25 »
Tend to agree.  Unless you're going nuts with performance and mileage, the standard set up with regular oil changes should be more than fine.
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