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Spamlet wrote:

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
Spamlet wrote:
On my Ducati, where the front carb slopes at a different angle to the
rear, it is particularly fiddly to get the fuel level to cross the
main jet in the right place, and indeed, they made transparent float
bowls to help. For the front cylinder, I did, in fact, find that, if
the tab on the float was high enough to reach the end of the tickler
at all, the cylinder was too rich all the time, as the bumps on the
road ensured it was being 'tickled all the time'. No doubt the
modern ones have solved this, but, as the back cylinder picks up
quite easily, it's no big deal.

I'd hope they have EFI. ;-)


Actually, I've just been recalling the black plastic floats in the
Ducati carbs, and, in fact, the tickler plunger actually just bopped
the top of the float, cos I've just got a mental picture of the little
dent it made thanks to the float being bashed against it all the time
by the road bumps...

That's how they all worked on every bike I've owned. Which isn't that
many, though. And the last one about 40 years ago.

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