Ariel Owners MotorCycle Club

EOK is a Birmingham registration.

Just now dug out the new clutch plates from AOMCC Gearbox spares.

The corks are near enough to 1/4" thick to make no difference.

Alan, As Leslie says 'It's a can of worms' It's going to vibrate whatever you do. No balancing and the vibration is vertical. As you add weight to counter this vertical vibration you introduce horizontal vibration. The purpose of the headsteady is to 'dampen' this vibration so that things don't get ...

The Huntmaster head steady is the same as used by BSA on the plunger A10. Swinging arm A10's had a much more complicated effort on top of the rockerbox which if Ariel had adopted would have meant the end for the access hole in the top of the Ariel rockerbox for doing the pushrods. I've had both plun...

Bob, Just found a compass - the outer face of the single magnet is North and the inner South. By North I mean that the part of the compass which points North - Bedford in my case - points to the outer face and the part of the compass which points South - Luton ditto - points to the inner face. Will.

Bob, Try 'phoning them. They were very helpful when I couldn't make the backplate fit. I'm not sure it actually matters which polarity is which. What matters is if they are the same or different. I'd wondered about balance. If I get some free time I'll experiment tomorrow. I have a spare magneto in ...

My Thorspark purchased last year has only one magnet. I've not fitted it yet so I can't help with how it works but I've just seen in the Thorspark notes that the second magnet shouldn't be removed. Another challenge. I bought the Thorspark for much the same reason as you having had a magneto fail ca...

Sounds like the rocker box is flooding with oil. The oil should drain down through the tappet blocks and any blockage there is a recipe for smoke. The stud which connects the rocker and oil gauge pipe to the crankcase has a hole designed to regulate the amount of oil going 'upstairs'. This means tha...

Just a thought - is the crankcase breather working as it should?

Isn't it mostly rocker-box oil draining down that lubricates the cams and followers so
cutting the flow down might diminish the smoky exhaust but . . .