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Tech. Advice: Series 'B' / 'C' 500cc/1000cc Bikes
1951 Black Shadow Restoration
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<blockquote data-quote="vibrac" data-source="post: 138824" data-attributes="member: 60"><p>I seems I cant leave things alone, A few days the cold and now the rain sent me back to the workshop with the Comet. I was not happy with the ignition timing for the starting so I retimed it at the 4deg closed ATD ran it on the bench (electric start) all Ok. Then I absentmindedly wiped the offending (rear) pushrod tube and seal of all oil and left it. I did it again on the following day and suddenly thought "I am sure I did that yesterday! This time I spent some time with rag and petrol and it was really oil free when I left it, and guess what? this morning its oily again all around the seal at the bottom of the tube and the engine has not run...</p><p>So perhaps its the top seal and not the bottom seal that has been the object of all my ire now a top seal is repairable in situe I wonder...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vibrac, post: 138824, member: 60"] I seems I cant leave things alone, A few days the cold and now the rain sent me back to the workshop with the Comet. I was not happy with the ignition timing for the starting so I retimed it at the 4deg closed ATD ran it on the bench (electric start) all Ok. Then I absentmindedly wiped the offending (rear) pushrod tube and seal of all oil and left it. I did it again on the following day and suddenly thought "I am sure I did that yesterday! This time I spent some time with rag and petrol and it was really oil free when I left it, and guess what? this morning its oily again all around the seal at the bottom of the tube and the engine has not run... So perhaps its the top seal and not the bottom seal that has been the object of all my ire now a top seal is repairable in situe I wonder... [/QUOTE]
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