Sleeving Vintage Amal carburator

[olderdan]

I do appreciate the sentiments but would like to keep this thread focused on carb sleeving. Any tips and ideas are welcome.

Hi thirdbike,
A few thoughts on Amals, these are the carbs I have most experience with and have always found them to easy to tune and are perfectly reliable for a road bike. I have not found a worn slide or bore to be the main cause of lack of performance but more to do with worn jets and needles, the needle is free to find its own centre in the jet which leads to fairly rapid wear ( I used to replace mine at about 30K).
Obviously galling is not good but can be smoothed out, the slide needs to be a loose fit as it is only closed by a fairly light spring and any foreign matter can cause a sticking open throttle (nuf said). The later types of carbs with a cable opening /closing feature is much safer but sadly not on Amals.
The main concern seems to persieved air leaks past the slide but this only affects tickover settings which are easy to compensate.