Valve seats

essexarcher · Post by **essexarcher** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:02 pm

Advice please.

Rebuilding my G3LS after 23 years festering in the shed.(the bike not me, well come to think about it)

As last time the bike was on the road you struggled to buy unleaded I could do with some advice. Fuel addatives or replacement seats? your advice on which you recommend and good products and or cylinder head engineers will be most welcome.

Cheers

itma · Post by **itma** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:13 pm

Neither.
Been loads on this here , done to death in fact.
Set your bike up right, and run it on ordinary unleaded.

lawrence · Post by **lawrence** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:59 pm

Hi Neil
Welcome to the site!

Lock the door lads, he's young, a nuclear engineer but best of all his bike is a bitsa! All the best bikes are bitsa ones. In fact I won't ride anything else (unless its a Bonnie or has two wheels).

Don't worry about the petrol. I use super unleaded and over twenty thousand miles on my Bonnie there has been zero valve seat recession. I suspect ordinary unleaded would be exactly the same but am seduced by the petrol companies claims of higher mileage, better performance, thicker hair, more attractiveness to girls etc

Enjoy the bike. Wish I had one!

itma · Post by **itma** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:49 pm

nuclear safety engineer???????????

there has to be a leg pull in that somewhere.....

AJS650 · Post by **AJS650** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:54 pm

[quote]

he's young,

yipee he`s young..... janet... young blood...........

itma · Post by **itma** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:58 pm

eye of newt, and tongue of toad, dragons blood and a young mans.......

One more and we can do Macbeth at the annual rally

[and an ambulance driver shouting YIPPEE BLOOD!!???????????]Edited by - itma on 19 Mar 2008 11:01:53 PM

AJS650 · Post by **AJS650** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:09 pm

[quote]
eye of newt, and tongue of toad, dragons blood and a young mans.......

One more and we can do Macbeth at the annual rally

[and an ambulance driver shouting YIPPEE BLOOD!!???????????]
don`t worry essexarcher i would look after you........ itma i preserve life if i can not chase after it for blood, smacked wrist

arkwright · Post by **arkwright** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 11:14 pm

Oh those memories you have brought back Uncle Ken with the very mention of Dragons Blood, trying to find my way home, head spinning and that was only after one small bottle.They use to say it put lead in your pencil ,can you still buy it?

Circlip · Post by **Circlip** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:00 am

Im glad someone mentioned valve seats because mine are brass,--well one is but I cant remember which it is. Ive never ever seen brass seats before,--could be bronze,-- is this normal for British stuff?

essexarcher · Post by **essexarcher** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:01 am

Cheers Guys +Gals

You have gone some way to confirming my suspicion that valve seat mods and addatives to stop valve seat recession could well be a myth started by people selling these services.

Cheers Neil