Hi All,
Some of you may remember my exploding barrell episode a few months back (spigot came away and wrecked the pistons and barrells) I have finally got the bike back on the road and tested it today with my resleeved barrells and Taiwanese pistons. So far so good, engine seems to run well with plenty of grunt. The tappet clearences have opened up and it sounded like a machine gun by the time I got back, just going to reset them now (this happened last time I put the motor back together) Motor cut out after 4 miles to my horror, this was due to petrol flooding out of the carb, turned out to be a sticky float valve, after taking the carb off on the side of the road and sorting that out it carried on with out any further problems. Of course I have the compulsory rocker box leak but the bolts were not that tight so have nipped them up and hopefully that will stem the flow. Anyway its nice to have the old girl running again and hopefully she will stay together longer than last time !
Cheers
Duncan