Wake-up call, part two
Carburettor refit
Last month, the Triumph Trident’s overhauled carburettors were refitted to their subframe, the throttle slide was synchronised and the choke slides with new cable set were fitted. On strip-down before work commenced, a brief visual check confirmed the linked fuel pipe set, with their myriad different clamps, were beyond reinstalling and the three carburettor mounting rubbers (stack pipes) were lightly perished. Arguably, they would have served a few more years, but as the carburettors were off the engine, it made sense to fit a new set.
New fuel pipe assemblies for Triumph Tridents and BSA Rocket Threes were available as a ready-made kit in the past, but as I enjoy all aspects of working on motorcycles, I’d rather make the set from a length of appropriate flexible fuel pipe and a handful of crimp-on pipe ferules, thus no check on the availability of ready-made fuel pipe sets was made. Details of our approach to the task are in the accompanying photographs and captions – many of you will have your own methods that work well for you.
With the new fuel pipe set and manifold mounting rubbers fitted to the carburettors, the entire structure was re-fitted to the machine. It’s not the difficult job some imply, especially when using new
