Manky Monkey Motors

the dizzy has the advance retard dish on it and is not connected to vacuum pipe is this required?
i was told multiple carbs dont need it ?/ ummm nah i think it will help trike stalls every time you stop
any other causes carbs need balancing and ive ordered a leccy fuel pump as so little fall on gravity feed ?
any pointers taken and used

There's enough fuel from  gravity feed on my quad carbed trike to pull cleanly without any problems , two feeds from tank though ? Little troublesome on throttle back off  as it hangs on a bit but I haven't had a chance to look at anything properly to narrow it down as every time I go to look at it I seem to end up going for a ride ! LOL

Vac advance is primarily an economy device for cruising speeds and should be fed from a ported point ie no vac advance on tickover but more when running on cruising throttle. I've run plenty of car engines without them attached, especially those with tuned cams as the vac advance doesn't work correctly then anyway.

It's my experience with multiple carbs ( Webers ) on car engines that they need more initial advance as the vac is lower than on a single carb. Modern points also need regapping pretty soon after fitting as the plastic cam lobe melts and then hardens from friction.

I tend to use the plugs to tell me what's happening inside .In fact the Gunson spark plug mixture 'things' are a handy tool as well.

When I took my Reliant to Tom Airey, the engine tuner, the first thing he did was to remove the vacuum pipe, (remembering to block off the feed from the manifold). No idea why, but he knew what he was doing.

no feed on manifold yet   i was going to add one  i will start with carbs   and no points kapri but thanks for the relpy

So as not to pull in any vac advance and work purely with the mechanical advance in the dizzy. Just like checking static timing should ALWAYS be done with vac disconnected and blocked.

Early ( pre about '73 ) Yansk always use full maifold timing and later go to ported to help with emissions. Brit stuff has always used ported only. Why ? I have no idea !!

Could it be the clutch not freeing off completely ?

after blowing up 2nd engine i have totally lost any faith in reliant and am in middle of fitting GTR1000 to the little orange trike and get rid of all things reliant from my abode pics to follow merv

BUGGER ! What happened to the second one ? Any savable spares from it?

got plenty bits it drunk all the oil then blew water hose then i stopped got recovered it still starts but blows water out exhaust so no more reliant for me tho i had just done 160 mile and was doing 90 on m5 at time im sticking with bike engines

was doing 90 on M5 at time

...aaaah, I think I see the problem.

You should be reported to the R.S.P.C.R sir, for such unmitigated cruelty :D :D :D. although I tend to agree with you Stump, with so many virtually bullet proof 'bike engines available out there at present, the need for the Reliant's small, light, watercooled motor is possibly less of an attraction today..........................ho, hum, at least theres the scrap value, I suppose! :P :P :P :P :P.....Morrag

engine out again

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new one in bleeeedin tight fit


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one more

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One of the reasons I parted with the Mini 1000 trike was that it was never going to be fast enough!  Have fun with the Kwak!

bad news on the reliant lump but JEEZ you dont hang about do you stumpy!! :o at that rate you will have it all back together and running by the weekend  ;)

discrete quiet little exhaust added



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Sheesh, what did that fall off?!

WOW  :o thats some wild pipe work there stumpy! but the neighbors are gonna love you. nice work and luckily you wont have to worry about burning your leg on it either  ;D ;). like the skeleton to. she running yet?

is the beast running yet mate?

You've  been rather quite, every thing alright?