Dear Larry,
I have a pair of 40DCOE18s on my spit 1500 and found that first start
up was really easy with the standard jet settings as per the triumphtune
catalogue.
It was more trickey to get them to run smoothly on transition from the
idle jets, although 2 hours on the rolling road with someone who knew
what they were doing soon sorted that.
Cheers
Tim
Larry Vaughan wrote:
>I will be starting up a rebuilt motor soon. Is 20-50 the correct break in
>oil?
>I have a problem with the motor I am rebuilding. The original Stromberg carb
>shot a stream of gas out of a hole, but ran if some one held a finger on it.
>I ran a single 40DCOE18 with good results for a very brief period. I then
>traded the 18 for a 3, so I would have a matched set of webers. I never ran
>the dual 40DCOE3 setup before I put the motor in the shop. I Began to worry
>about the initial break in with untried Webers, new cam etc. I bought a pair
>of SU carbs from John Esposito, $175.00 on ebay, and will run the stock cam
>till I get the carbs working. The motor will be stock European spec
>basically. The cylinders will be honed standard size with 9 to 1 pistons. If
>the SU carbs are totally out of whack and I can't get the damn thing to run
>initially, will I ruin the cylinders?
>I am gettig very anxious about this!!
>Larry
>
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