How Carburetors & Petcocks Work | Used 2002 Royal Enfield Bullet 500

[@listener85]

I've just watched your first three Bullet videos with interest... I'm looking to buy an old 350 Bullet sometime soon so I'm soaking up any KZbin videos I can find showing owners working on them in advance of whatever I may need to service/fix when I buy one myself! I've had a few bikes before way back but mostly two stroke so no valves or push rods to worry about, so this 1950's designed engine will be interesting to get to know and I can't wait to ride the bike through the country lanes here in England!

[@twinphill900]

Learning is learning, it doesn't matter where you start, but where you finish. More power to ya 👍

[@christine_hunter]

It’s so fun being on this learning journey with you! Thanks for sharing. Aside from learning about carburetors, I also learned that I can’t hear the word “carbs” without wanting some bread 🤣 Keep up the good work!

[@mrpetit2]

Your Bullet 500 is 50's technologies as it's design hardly changed during it's production life (up to when they started to use the newer engine that uses fuel injection). So it's carburetor is also what was already common during the 50's. I had the same reaction when I was a young man when my dad first explained to me how the reserve fuel petcock worked 😁 What I find amaizing is especially on cars how mechanically refind and complex carbs became (I'm also more from the fuel injection era), compared to how simple a fuel injection system is. Of course you have to know how to make a fuel injector (pretty complicated on a material science aspect) and how to make and program a computer, but apart from that the working is way more straigthforeward (and more reliable and precise). Mechanical fuel injection however (like on older diesels and some old gas engines) is mechanically very complicated though. Especially the mechanical fuel injection pump that has to do variable timing and variable mix ratios etc.

[@leondown6869]

I feel so old watching you unearth the "delights" of RE engineering. The basic engine design goes back to 1930s when carbs, push rods, drum brakes and magnetos made the Empire what it was. You may wish to delve into history of RE. Plenty of stuff, good n bad, online. L P.S. if you can , track down a copy of Pete Snidal's "The Enfield Bullet Manual" hard copy and online. V useful.