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Tech. Advice: Series 'B' / 'C' 500cc/1000cc Bikes
Starting Problem - Series 'C' BIG Single
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<blockquote data-quote="greg brillus" data-source="post: 156778" data-attributes="member: 597"><p>Tim touched on it earlier, but with the AMC gearbox you need to adopt a slightly different method of starting........ I found this after building a 600 Norvin a few years back now.......Instead of pushing down the kickstart lever till it just passed TDC then kick........You need to go further, get the engine up to compression, then with the k/s lever at about the 9:00 o'clock position, and decomp lever squeezed in, push the k/s lever fully down to the bottom, then come back up fully with the lever and kick with a full stroke........This is because the AMC boxes have a different quadrant to ratchet ratio than the Burman boxes........this should help.......As for the new BTH mag's well sometimes they are great and have no issues, and sometimes they are not.........The weak spark at kicking speed is a common thing........But try the different starting approach as suggested and this should start it ok........Good luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greg brillus, post: 156778, member: 597"] Tim touched on it earlier, but with the AMC gearbox you need to adopt a slightly different method of starting........ I found this after building a 600 Norvin a few years back now.......Instead of pushing down the kickstart lever till it just passed TDC then kick........You need to go further, get the engine up to compression, then with the k/s lever at about the 9:00 o'clock position, and decomp lever squeezed in, push the k/s lever fully down to the bottom, then come back up fully with the lever and kick with a full stroke........This is because the AMC boxes have a different quadrant to ratchet ratio than the Burman boxes........this should help.......As for the new BTH mag's well sometimes they are great and have no issues, and sometimes they are not.........The weak spark at kicking speed is a common thing........But try the different starting approach as suggested and this should start it ok........Good luck. [/QUOTE]
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