My Norton has always ran sweet most of its life and has always got me home if it did play up but in over 45 years of owning it that was very rare, with the lock downs and all the crap of last year my Norton just sat in the back of the shed while I did reno work inside my old house, and this week I finialy pulled it out, been well over 6 months since its been fired up so drained the crankcase which had most of the oil tank oil in the crank, I had already drained the fuel tank when I put it away so had enough fuel in a small jerry can to get to the service station, flicked the kill switch and gave it a kick nothing then a few more kick still nothing I had replaced the toggle kill switch a few month before and just relized I had mounted it the wrong way around so I had tuned the switch off instead of on after I turned it on it fired straight up
, well took it out and it was running fine as it always has, stopped to fill the tank up and after that it went down hill from there slowly it started to misfire and the more I traveled the worst it got.
Stopped at a bike shop to get replacement hand grips for it and the young sales girl came out to look at my old Norton and under it was a big puddle of fuel coming out of the over flow, in fact it was pissing out, bloody PWK carbies have had this problem on and off over the years with the floats sticking even after fixing the problem a few time and now I am pissed off with them, and it took five kicks to start it with a belly full of fuel and the ride home was getting worst , it only started to play up after filling the tank up so think I have got some bad fuel or the sticking float so once home drained the fuel tank and pulled my old Amal carbies out from under my work bench, they are still good with little wear in the slides, have them on the bench for a full pull down and clean out before refitting then to the Norton.
The PWK carbs were set up by Jim S for my hot motor and it ran really good with them but with having on going problem with sticking floats I have had enough Jim told me what to do to stop the floats sticking and this last fix was suppose to have fix it but no it has bite me on my arse again and I did miss the ticklers from the old Amals, I will start saving up for a new set of Amal Premiers for later down the road but at the moment my old Amals will last a few years yet as very little slide wear in them, so while the Norton is on the work table I will do a full service on it and a new set of N7YC plugs and put a new set of point's in the Joe Hunt maggie.
Ashley
