Afternoon BSA people 😀

I went to fire up my rebuilt/recommissioned DBD34 Goldie today. Petrol in the tank, tap on.

There was no positive action when I tried to tickle the carb so it wouldn’t flood. I dismantled the float chamber and this is what I find. It seems the GP carb has TT on the float. Is this correct? Same float as a TT carb? The main problem is that the tickler doesn’t reach the float 🤣

Looking in the handbook, the float and needle look correct and it looks like I either have the wrong tickler or someone has cut this one off at sometime. My tickler is level with the baffle plate whereas the drawing shows it 1/4” longer.

UPDATE: I’ve found a company online here in England that make the longer (33mm) tickler which apparently was only fitted to the TT and GP carbs with the high capacity remote float chamber.
Std tickler was 28mm long.

Brand new tickler, sleeve, spring and pin, CNC’d-£17 plus post.
I’ve ordered one. Happy chappy.