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[Leon Novello]

Norm: The Afgan camel driver on Quality Control has gone home.

[Norm]

Now Leon you are being silly, he was never there in the first place

[RoSy]

Going back in time something I can do quite easily now, some Amal carbs had a clamp on fast tick over lever. Daft thing on my part is I had one not long ago and left it on a bike I sold. It's easy to adapt the throttle stop screw by drilling a small hole through the knurled head and inserting a spring steel pin. I think there could be a market for Amal to start making these again, they were so useful.

[RoSy]

REF: Fast tick over lever my previous post to this. Just thought I would check and yes they are available , at Fecked . Com

[Norm]

Eric, you must be aware of the failings of the Electra valve lifter, apart from the fact they thought that a little plastic lever would be able lever open a valve spring, then you have the little arm on the side of the tappet cover that is not long enough to get enough leverage to open the valve and then you get inside and they cut down the diameter of the tappets from 9mm on the Bullets to 6mm on the Electra to I assume allow them to fit the lifter arm in. Being weaker the tappets can break, not heard of on Bullets. The best option is as Adrian has done and that is fit a Bullet decomp valve and forget about the valve lifter, don't use it and it hopefully you won't break a tappet. It is obvious that they were trying to retain as much of the Bullet look around the tappet door area as possible but if they had just used the Bullet decomp none of these problems would have arisen

[Wheaters]

RoSy,"Fecked.com"?

Have you been watching Mrs. Brown's Boys?

It should read "Feked.com"

Not that we're supposed to advertise other providers.

[Adrian]

Eric,



the tappet as you describe is indeed a weak point, the head can snap off the stem, regardless of whether you get the valve lifter to work or not! I never got the valve lifter to work on mine, but the exhaust tappet STILL failed, so it's as Norm mentioned previously, someone took a perfectly sound component of the old Bullet design, and redesigned it into something more fragile.



Also, the lifter spindle boss on the tappet cover cracked on mine when I did try to use it and it caused a quite impressive oil leak.



A.

[Norm]

Eric as you say the tappet breaking has probably nothing to do with thevalve lifter, but it is due to the fact they tried to fit the valve lifter that meant they had to reduce the diameter of the tappets and thus they fail. Nothing you can do about it but live in the hope it doesn't fail on you and there is no preventative measure you can do. Just make sure your roadside recovery is paid up