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Carby on the wrong side
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 4:19 am
by Hugz
Howdy
I've tranferred a cylinder block from a WSL to a WPCL (original totally rusted out) and am wondering if I'm going to have a problems in firing her up. The innerds look identical and the firing equipment is the same so not expecting any but I might be missing the glaring obvious. Not original I know but at least it will be another seagull in the water.
Hugo.
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:22 am
by charlesp
Well apart from needing the different carb, you should be OK
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:01 am
by Hugz
Excellent! Didn't have a carby on it so I'll pop an amal onto it. I've got two. One has 14/6 on the slide and the other 14/7... what's that all about? You are worth your weight in gold Charles!
This ignorance is becoming my downfall. The prop was spinning whatever position the clutch was in, only to realise that I was spinning the motor and prop backwards and that was what they were suppose to do. Anyway a good training exercise to pull it all apart..
Magneto next. Hopefully it wont have a spark so I can attack that!
Hugo.
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 2:42 pm
by charlesp
The inlet stubs for Centuries are not the same diameter as the Silver Centuries. The Silver versions are larger, for the Amal carbs. The ordinary Centuries are smaller and fit the Villiers...
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 4:46 am
by Hugz
How annoying. Here I was all ready to spend a few hours tinkering with her to get her to fire up and she started on the first pull. Have these motors no respect for us tinkerers?
Only problem was the fuel tap doesn't shut off the fuel. It was missing the spindle so I requisitioned one off another motor. I'm assuming it is shorter. Can someone confirm there are differences. Thanks
Hugo.
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 11:19 am
by charlesp
All the fuel taps - from way back to very late on - are the Ewarts' Petcock. Some are chrome, some are plain brass. they are all virtually identical.
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:45 pm
by mrdraddy
Think you may need a longer throttle cable,its running very close to the flywheel
Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 11:53 am
by CatiGull
That Seagull test chamber also makes a pretty reasonable dustbin, if you need to throw something away ever.
Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 12:26 pm
by Hugz
charlesp wrote:All the fuel taps - from way back to very late on - are the Ewarts' Petcock. Some are chrome, some are plain brass. they are all virtually identical.
Talking of which.... is this a normal tap for '47 102? I've looked at photo gallery and haven't seen similar. My '50 102 has the standard type.
Thanks Hugo
Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 2:00 pm
by charlesp
By 1947 they were all the usual Ewarts type..