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Hi. After much cleaning, tweaking, popping and swearing I am considering fitting a single Mikuni to my MK111. I have one fitted to my 750 and it startsand runs fine with little or no maintenance. I do love the Amals, they look good and give a unique power delivery and sound but even after fitting premiers I find them just a bit labour intensive. However a couple of suppliers have the kits but do not supply the correct throttle cable and not being happy with my nipple soldering abilities would prefer a kit that comes ready to fit.

Could anyone point in the direction of a supplier.

Thank you

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Previously mark_chapman2 wrote:

Hi. After much cleaning, tweaking, popping and swearing I am considering fitting a single Mikuni to my MK111. I have one fitted to my 750 and it startsand runs fine with little or no maintenance. I do love the Amals, they look good and give a unique power delivery and sound but even after fitting premiers I find them just a bit labour intensive. However a couple of suppliers have the kits but do not supply the correct throttle cable and not being happy with my nipple soldering abilities would prefer a kit that comes ready to fit.

Could anyone point in the direction of a supplier.

Thank you

you can use a mk2 concentric single cable it fits straight on the mikuni vm as far as i remember and my cable came from RGMs,you wont be able to solder a new cable because they now contain stainless ,only the old cables will solder successfully cheers nick

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If you rebuild the Amals properly and fit the correct jets etc they will run perfectly. I did the ones on my 850 mk2A some time back, I even fitted the choke slides and now it will tickover even when cold with a touch of choke and start first kick.

One thing I would reccomend is to grease the slides and bodies with graphite grease. It makes them work like silk and stops them from wearing out. Do it every time the slides come out and you will have no problems.

 


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