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exfarmer Thu, 03/12/2015

G'Day all.

Thank you for the welcome to the forum. I live in Perth, Western Australia and collect and restore uncommom gardening equipment. Recently I purchased a Royal Enfield Mower and am looking for more information. From my research in Australia I believe that there were only a few of them sold here as at the time they were very expensive to purchase.

The information I am looking for is as follows:-

The date of manufacture

The type oh lubricant used in the clutch (grease or oil)

A possible paint match as the only good paint on it wont fit into the paint matching machines at my paint shop

I will try to attach photos
 

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oldiron Fri, 18/12/2015

Hi there and welcome to the forum (somewhat of a welcome back for me also) i have just restored one of these Royal Enfield mowers and have a season of use under its belt now. If you remove the big cover on the side then you will see that these machines were gear driven and that the gear cover itself contains an oil bath in the bottom of the casing for the cutter/roller gears to run in and hence pass lube up to the layshaft gear. you would have to chock the mower up on that side or hang slightly of the side of a bench(careful) to remove the cover as after you have undone the nuts,you will have to tease the cover over the studs then go downwards to allow the oil bath tray come down from the semi submerged bottom gears.

There should also be a filler cup in the top of this casing that you use to introdue oil into the cover/gears. just use any oil in the filler cup. i think there are grease nipples where grease is required (stands to reason)

As for the clutch, its dry, no oil here or it will just slip

If yours is anything like mine it can be pretty fussy about starting sometimes too,it actually starts easier when its hot which is somewhat arse-backwards for a 2stroke!

 

 

oldiron Fri, 18/12/2015

if you want to ask anymore questions or want anymore pictures posting then just ask as i photo document my restos/rebuilds

Ricky

wristpin Fri, 18/12/2015

Starting easier hot than cold possibly suggests a weak mixture or the choke or other enrichening device not fully doing its job.

oldiron Sun, 20/12/2015

Agreed, she is not fully happy yet on the starting front. its just a case of playing around. The carb fitted has no choke/strangler, just an enrichment lever acting directly on the needle to change needle height, which in effect will just act the same as a choke i suppose as the slide doesnt move untill requested at the handlebar.

 

wristpin Sun, 20/12/2015

Not even a "tickler" to raise the fuel level in the float chamber?

The image that you posted from behind the machine shows the fan shaped air cleaner. Does that not rotate to close off the air supply?

hillsider Mon, 21/12/2015

Looking closely at the second photo it certainly looks as though the air filter has a sliding shutter that wil close of the air inlet slots. 

I may be seeing things but it also looks like a float tickler to the left side of the float chamber top cover. 

oldiron Tue, 22/12/2015

Just to clear up some confusion the photos on the top of the post are not my mower, they are the guys who started the thread. mine is the restored one, yes my mower has a tickler to raise fuel  level in the float chamber, but with regards to any kind of choke method it just utilises the needle height adjuster on top of the slide as earlier mentioned (the villiers wx-11 stationary engine and no doubt some other early 2strokes utilise this method).

Mine just has the plain mesh trumpet style air filter.

Ricky

wristpin Tue, 22/12/2015

The needle adjustment is to set the running mixture and won't have any specific effect on the starting mixture. I have several machines with the mesh trumpets but they all have a pivoted shutter where they join the carburettor body - any sign that yours may have had one?