Hello Harry,
Thanks for your offer of help. What's wrong is that the fuel bowl has the wrong bolt holding it to the carb and is missing a piece. Consequently it is not firmly secured and leaks in spite of having made new gaskets. it is also missing the throttle cable adjuster which has a weird threading I can't find. It is probably Whitworth. So I need at the least to order parts from England and might do as well to just buy a rebuilt one complete and ready to use.
Before Steve left for Vancouver ( this morning) we worked on designing and then got started fabricating a bracket for the idler pulley armature to engage and disengage the belt, in other words acting as a manual clutch. It will be spring loaded so that it is engaged unless the handlebar clutch lever is depressed which will release the idler from pressing against the belt. In theory anyway. That's the plan. I think it will work. if it doesn't then something else will.
No money right now for the carb, so I'll work on other things and it will be ready when it is ready... probably not until spring since snow is just a month away here at the border with Canada. I'll work on it this winter and perhaps if there is a break in the weather I can start it up and see how it runs. I think it will be worth waiting for. Should be a hoot with the three speed shifter and buggy sidecar.
SB
Thanks for your offer of help. What's wrong is that the fuel bowl has the wrong bolt holding it to the carb and is missing a piece. Consequently it is not firmly secured and leaks in spite of having made new gaskets. it is also missing the throttle cable adjuster which has a weird threading I can't find. It is probably Whitworth. So I need at the least to order parts from England and might do as well to just buy a rebuilt one complete and ready to use.
Before Steve left for Vancouver ( this morning) we worked on designing and then got started fabricating a bracket for the idler pulley armature to engage and disengage the belt, in other words acting as a manual clutch. It will be spring loaded so that it is engaged unless the handlebar clutch lever is depressed which will release the idler from pressing against the belt. In theory anyway. That's the plan. I think it will work. if it doesn't then something else will.
No money right now for the carb, so I'll work on other things and it will be ready when it is ready... probably not until spring since snow is just a month away here at the border with Canada. I'll work on it this winter and perhaps if there is a break in the weather I can start it up and see how it runs. I think it will be worth waiting for. Should be a hoot with the three speed shifter and buggy sidecar.
SB
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