“I've been a Vin rider for many a year,
I spent all me money on black leather gear.” - I'll let youwork out what the music should be.
When I got my first Comet it was only twenty five years old, so I have now owned it for longer than all of its previous owners put together. I've also owned my Knight it for longer than all its previous owners put together.
My '39 Meteor was seventy three years old when I got it so I've got to live to over a hundred and thirty for the same to be true.
It has so many differences from the postwar bikes that I have a lot of learning to do. Today I managed to damage a piece of the oil feed pipe close to the tank causing an oil leak. I decided to drain the tank so I could replace the pipe and disconnected the other end from the pump but and found no oil flow from the end of the pipe. I had to remove it from the tank and quickly fit a drain hose. Once I'd got the pipe off I found it had been assembled from at least four different pieces which appear to be a rubber connector from tank banjo to a metal unit, a once clear plastic pipe and a rubber pipe to pump banjo.
The lack of flow suggests to me that the metal part is an anti sumping valve of some sort with the clear section below it acting as a sight glass.
This raises the question of whether the anti sumping valve is needed with the A oil pump. I thought that gear pumps didn't have a problem.
Accepting that the machine is old and likely to have some wear is there a better way to prevent sumping?
I spent all me money on black leather gear.” - I'll let youwork out what the music should be.
When I got my first Comet it was only twenty five years old, so I have now owned it for longer than all of its previous owners put together. I've also owned my Knight it for longer than all its previous owners put together.
My '39 Meteor was seventy three years old when I got it so I've got to live to over a hundred and thirty for the same to be true.
It has so many differences from the postwar bikes that I have a lot of learning to do. Today I managed to damage a piece of the oil feed pipe close to the tank causing an oil leak. I decided to drain the tank so I could replace the pipe and disconnected the other end from the pump but and found no oil flow from the end of the pipe. I had to remove it from the tank and quickly fit a drain hose. Once I'd got the pipe off I found it had been assembled from at least four different pieces which appear to be a rubber connector from tank banjo to a metal unit, a once clear plastic pipe and a rubber pipe to pump banjo.
The lack of flow suggests to me that the metal part is an anti sumping valve of some sort with the clear section below it acting as a sight glass.
This raises the question of whether the anti sumping valve is needed with the A oil pump. I thought that gear pumps didn't have a problem.
Accepting that the machine is old and likely to have some wear is there a better way to prevent sumping?