Ok, I am glad you sent those, my thanks. My pivots are on the front of the carbs, but I guess it's easy enough to move them to the back.
If you've got Dells, you will have a right and left hand carb (as you know ). Just wondered if @77 Westy 's were. Might affect the linkage arrangement.
No, nothing fabricated, that’s just fitted using the parts CSP supply, the only extra item bought was the return spring. Zedders fabricated a bracket to move the linkage to the other side of the carbs.
Here's my Dells, they look handed to me, to push outward the controls joints would have to be on the back, I think Edit, so that would necessitate the linkage being on the rear, wouldn't it?
It should be easy enough to set up your Dells for a centre linkage to pull or push them open. I prefer pull. If you have the engine roof hatch fit it as it comes should be straightforward.
Andrew I set mine up the same way as 77Westy. I just swapped the cars left to right and had the linkage near the bulkhead then - easier with a hatch to be fair.
The carbs and bulkhead are in the same place regardless of whether the engine has upright cooling or not and I expect if you ask CSP why you can’t use their bell crank on a standard engine they couldn’t tell you. And they couldn’t tell you because you can. It’s better to have the linkage pulling, then there is no risk of the rods bending. And that’s how the CSP linkage works, pull the throttle cable and the rods move towards each other. Either swap your carbs from side to side so the throttle linkage is by the bulkhead and use the CSP bell crank as supplied or leave the carbs as they are and modify the bell crank, as zedders has, so the linkage is on the hatch side of the carbs. You’ve got pics of both, your choice what to do. If you like fiddling, and don’t have a hatch, having the linkage at the back of the bus makes it easier to fiddle but if you just like to set it up and forget about it having the linkage by the bulkhead isn’t really a problem – I haven’t touched mine for ages.
I got confused, sorry, still tired. So you (@zedders), not @77 Westy, had to fabricate a bracket to move it all to the front and make it pull?
I was just looking on eBay and they sell steel hexagon bar for quite sensible prices. All you need is to find a mate with a lathe who can turn the sockets for the ball joints in the end... And also fit the cross bar above the hex bar to act as an accurate spacer for when you move the carburettors.
The bell crank linkage pulls whether it’s in front of or behind the carbs. If you mount the bell crank in front of the carbs (front as in front of the bus by the bulkhead) swap the carbs left to right and right to left and the linkage fits without modification – my pics. If you mount the bell crank behind the carbs (behind as in back of the bus, hatch side) leave the carbs where they are and modify the linkage – zedders pics.
