Trusty runs again.

[joegrgraham]

Hi all,
Those who were at lotmead will remember the trusty that perplexed everyone by refusing to start.
Well, after trying just about everything, with no success, I put on a new plug cap, and it started!! I don’t know how or why, but after a bit of tinkering with the carb setting, it ran as if nothing has happened!
Looks like it might make it to Weeley after all.

[charlie]

Like they say most fuel problems are electrical! Glad to hear it is running again. Oddly enough when my Simar 56 started giving trouble at Semington I discovered the electrical problem was in fact fuel related.

[sidevalve44]

Hooray, great news !

I remember once, a chap I knew stripping the carb and just about everything else on Royal Enfield 500. He said it had a newish plug but, it still wouldn’t go. I gave him my spare and it started straight away !

[vhgmcbuddy]

A Follower of this site in Ireland, who is not a member, Richard Duffy, Points out that the change of plug cap probably meant that there was a Resister in the other cap, and that a resister must never be used in a Magneto ignition system, also that the plug gap for use with a magneto should not be more than 18-20 Thou. as any more can lead to the spark jumping the safety gap in the Magneto, also to use only Copper core cable for the ignition. sound sensible advise to me.

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