Re: [CR]Re: Ricky's ticky.......

(Example: Racing:Beryl Burton)

Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 11:33:29 +0100
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Ricky's ticky.......
From: "Bob Reid" <bob.reid@btconnect.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010711092907.18683.cpmta@c009.snv.cp.net>


Covering two topics and in the spirit of what is turning out to be "British Week" ;

S-A Hubs are notorious for leaking out most of the oil put into them during servicing. Those hubs fitted with the sprung loaded flip-top cap seem worse than others and were subjected to some "shop" modifications to cut the leakage down (David Rattray's company fitted a slightly larger version of the Tecalmit nipple in place of the flip-top cap type) and various homebrewed tips appeared to try and prevent it - One was to stuff the oil cap full of cotton wool ! I'm not sure in what year it happened but S-A themselves finally found the solution - Do away with the oil port altogether !

Bob Reid
Stonehaven
Scotland.