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- Thu Feb 29, 2024 10:57 am
- Forum: Ariel Talk
- Topic: VHA liner installed
- Replies: 18
- Views: 803
Re: VHA liner installed
The guy who made the cylinders for John is still making as far as I know.
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:46 pm
- Forum: Ariel Talk
- Topic: VHA liner installed
- Replies: 18
- Views: 803
Re: VHA liner installed
There should be a gap between the head and cylinder so that the recess in the head clamps onto the top of the flange of the liner. It cannot then move. Ally cylinders always use a flanged liner, sometimes just proud of the top of the cylinder, by .002/.004" and clamped in place by the head as i...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 10:19 pm
- Forum: Main Chat Forum
- Topic: Find bike registration details from a frame number
- Replies: 21
- Views: 744
Re: Find bike registration details from a frame number
Hi Dennis, That frame only appears once in the club's register with a Dennis Thompson as the owner, presumably you! Registration number not given. Even if a dealer were to pre-register, presumably before selling it or used a number from a list of pre-allocated numbers, the factory would not know abo...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 10:11 pm
- Forum: Electrics
- Topic: Magneto Magnet strength ?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 3340
Re: Magneto Magnet strength ?
Yes and I am nowhere near Finland ... or Antarctica
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 6:03 pm
- Forum: Member's Bikes
- Topic: Hymn to the 1928 Model C
- Replies: 200
- Views: 24655
Re: Hymn to the 1928 Model C
It should be a steel stamping or forging rather than a casting, so should be OK.....
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 5:59 pm
- Forum: Main Chat Forum
- Topic: Ariel rally Československo 2024
- Replies: 36
- Views: 2767
Re: Ariel rally Československo 2024
Best of luck, you will be most welcome.
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 5:09 pm
- Forum: Electrics
- Topic: Magneto Magnet strength ?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 3340
Re: Magneto Magnet strength ?
Thank both Shawn and CM, I now have another project on the list.
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 5:02 pm
- Forum: Main Chat Forum
- Topic: Find bike registration details from a frame number
- Replies: 21
- Views: 744
Re: Find bike registration details from a frame number
I was once stopped by the police and asked which of the 3 numbers on my bike was the correct one ARI 222, KCH 500 or CRG 531, I replied the one on the only legally required number plate...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 5:00 pm
- Forum: Four stroke
- Topic: Balancing individual steel flywheels
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1544
Re: Balancing individual steel flywheels
Shawn, The Jawa rod is robust and short, uses a needle roller race and is reasonably easily available. I built it into a short stroke crank machined from a billet and use it with a Yamaha high comp piston that is about 9:1 in a shortened Ariel ally cylinder. I beat a SQ4 up to 60 mph on it but trans...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 1:42 pm
- Forum: Electrics
- Topic: Magneto Magnet strength ?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 3340
Re: Magneto Magnet strength ?
Shawn - I would love to hear how you built your charger.