james carpenter wrote:
> Don't go and do what I did when I needed new carbs. I went to Spitbits at
> Jingle Farm (I hope the Council shut him down) and got a pair of used carbs
> with "only 30k miles" on them, don't know what he did, but 2k miles later
> and the spindles are more worn than a (insert sick analogy here or "the
> carbs they were replacing"). The hood I got a Spitbits does not fit, and
> the vertical link I got there snapped after 500 miles. I am quite glad I
> haven't got anything else from there.
>
Cheers, I've heard dodgey reports about them before! Luckily I have a few
spares sets of HS2's & 4's, so I'll probably rebuild a pair of them sometime.
> Mind you I still get 33 to the gallon, 44 on a long run. Mabe somthing to
> do with it not reving to over 3800 rpm though.
Is it a 1300 or 1500? Mine a 1300 with O/D! Used to get it round to 7000rpm
occasionally without it going bang!! :-) struggles now to about 4500!!! :-(
Cheerio
Rich
ps, I hear Emu's gone solo, although apparently his act's a bit 'limp'!!! :-)
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