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- Tue Nov 11, 2025 8:32 pm
- Forum: Main Chat Forum
- Topic: Carb for 1930 LB
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1051
- Sun Nov 09, 2025 5:25 pm
- Forum: Main Chat Forum
- Topic: Carb for 1930 LB
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1051
Re: Carb for 1930 LB
I can post a couple of pictures if someone tells me how. Copying them does not work, and I see no ‘attach file’ function?
- Sat Nov 08, 2025 5:31 pm
- Forum: Main Chat Forum
- Topic: Carb for 1930 LB
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1051
Carb for 1930 LB
With a recent barn find of a 1930 LB was a box of carburetor parts. It does not look like the carb on my LF, or indeed any Amal carb I have seen. It is stamped 47/022S, the intake diameter is 20mm (fits the intake stud on the bike), the material is bronze I believe. The attached float chamber is not ...
- Mon Sep 07, 2020 6:38 pm
- Forum: Ariel Talk
- Topic: Square Four mk1, oil pressure
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3406
Re: Square Four mk1, oil pressure
Certainly. The oil is supplied from the appropriate orifice near the bottom of the timing chest. A double copper tube, one tube smaller than the other, runs up back and over the engine. There it splits and the smaller of the two is attached to the oil pressure gauge, the larger one goes to the ...
- Sun Sep 06, 2020 10:44 am
- Forum: Ariel Talk
- Topic: Square Four mk1, oil pressure
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3406
Square Four mk1, oil pressure
Hi, some years ago I wrote about my problem with oil escaping through the ventilation pipe from the sump. I received several helpful suggestions and tried them all. In the end I more or less gave up and eventually took most of the engine apart, cleaned whatever I could lay hands on and blew through ...
- Fri Jun 15, 2018 10:49 pm
- Forum: Main Chat Forum
- Topic: SQ4 engine noise
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6649
Re: SQ4 engine noise
Thanks everyone! It’s not pinking; I know what that sounds like. I do not believe there is any significant wear in the coupling gears as as almost everything inside the engine is either new, nos or professionally reconditioned. Including each and every bearing. I think I’ll go with the explanation ...
- Tue Jun 12, 2018 9:42 pm
- Forum: Main Chat Forum
- Topic: SQ4 engine noise
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6649
SQ4 engine noise
Hi, some may remember I had a problem with the oil vacating the engine through the crankcase breather. I followed the various tips I got on the forum, blew through all the oilways with compressed air, found that the washer in the oil pressure regulator had been put in the wrong way and put ...
- Mon Apr 09, 2018 8:45 am
- Forum: Ariel Talk
- Topic: Burman Q Gearbox
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1907
Re: Burman Q Gearbox
I have a 1934 model VA, sold new in Norway in June that year. With a Q gear box.
- Fri Mar 02, 2018 6:42 pm
- Forum: Main Chat Forum
- Topic: Huntmaster air filter box
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4537
Re: Huntmaster air filter box
Followed the link to John Bugden and sent an email ordering the parts listed. Hope they are still available. Thanks for the tip!
- Fri Mar 02, 2018 4:15 pm
- Forum: Main Chat Forum
- Topic: Huntmaster air filter box
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4537
Re: Huntmaster air filter box
The one I have is on loan from another bike, so not available to use unfortunately. A friend with an Ariel tells me there used to be a member of the aomcc who made replicas of these, but cannot remember the name?
