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Life is suppose to open another door when it closes one....still trying to get AN fitting for Dels on a big FAT Type 4.  Lots of help and I thought I had it but the Del!  banjos from JEGS are not even close.   See picture...Do I have some knock off Dels or what?...I could try some washers and a gasket adventure with the new banjo fittings if that is my last resort...behind that closed door....  but gee-wiz somebody must have the same DEL carb fittings and done a sweet AN line??

Open that door...please...again....

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Gary, did you post this earlier in another thread? I was going to post there but someone beat me to it. The only place I found the proper banjo for Dellortos was the Earls Performance one that was posted.

I never tried them myself, I gave up on that project, but I got the link from a guy who restores vintage Can Am and other sports racers.

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Thanks dlear...the ones from Earl's and Summit are the same a JEGS...their bolts are way too thick for the threaded hole in the carb..as you can see from the picture.  My question is if they are for Del's ...what kind of Dels are they for...not the 48s I have on the FAT 2.8 Type 4.  My banjo bolt(on right) is not hollow for fuel to flow through...it is solid and thinner and the fuel flows through the banjo around the bolt to the carb.See second picture.

I am in a Type 4 experience desert here and hope somebody out there can tell me:

1. Here is where you can get the AN banjo fitting you need...   2. There is no AN type banjo fitting for this carb...stick with the rubber hose   3. Buy some Webers and use their AN banjo fittings....???

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I know a whole lot more about Webers than I do Dells. I have rebuilt Dells but only a couple pairs.

Webers? Too MANY!

A couple weeks ago I worked on a Thing with a Raby type 4 with DTM. Some people had worked on it that quite frankly were not qualified. After I re-adjusted the valves(3 were too tight) at loose zero, I checked the timing/ignition.

Then I turned to the carbs. He had a Spanish Weber on the left and a Chinese one on the right. Not a jet was the same: idle, main, air correctors all different. The accelerator pump jets were the same, but the squirt stroke was WAY off.

I swapped the Chinese carb for a Spanish 44 I had as a spare. Then I proceeded to re-jet so they all matched. The last offense that was committed was the linkage. The pickup off the throttle plate was way off(an inch difference) AND the one side had the linkage ear slid way down the hexbar to make room for the oil cooler hoses that run over the top of the shroud.

I should have taken pictures of what NOT to do. After moving the hoses and shimming out the linkage to make the downlinks the same length, then I slid the linkage arm over to get the same downward angle. Then I was able to synch them.

The customer told me that the Thing now ran as well as it had when he got it back from Jake about twenty years ago. Jake installed the motor himself, and my customer picked it up from his old shop in the early 2000s. Then drove it home to NYC.

@Gary Hafner

Rho-Dylan's a very special place on the opposite coast, where there is more shoreline than Vermont and New Hampshire, combined.  Where they speak an entirely different language and everyone, by law because they call it the "Ocean State", is required to own a boat.  They may never use it, but they gotta own one anyway.   Crusty "Old Salt" fishermen are always leery of traveling, especially over bridges (there are a lot of bridges) because the state is so small they're worried someone might tow it out to sea while they're gone and they'll never get home, so they stay put - for generations.

Even the dogs and cats speak a different language there:

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Don't believe me?  Just look:

Rhody Speak

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Along with Del's Lemonade (which is a kind of sweet lemon slushy that the whole state is hooked on) there are a whole lot of strange names for ordinary things:

Grinder Cabinet

Translation:  

Grinder = Italian Subway Sandwich (assuming you have Subway in Sandy Eggo)

Cabinet = Chocolate Milk Shake (sometimes vanilla or strawberry) and if you get one from Newport Creamery and it's chocolate, it's called an "Awful-Awful" and is made with 2X - 3X more ice cream and whipped to perfection.

They also have "Stuffies" which are Quahog shells (Think really big clam shell, the size of your hand) stuffed with clam and oyster meat mixed with bread stuffing, drizzled with drawn butter and baked in the quahog shell.  

Quahogs are pretty big (that's our @Michael Pickett on the left, before he sailed away from Rho-Dylan for Hawaii):

quahog

Quahogs are greatly prized as a delicacy:

Quahog Prize

All images thanks to Don Bosquet for all these great cartoons!

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