OK, so its been a while since i posted but work has kind of come back to life, so I found a few days over the last few weeks to do a bit more!
Carb and exhaust on. This was no big deal although getting the threads on those manifolds started was quite tricky! Anyway the carbs and air filter are now on. I had to machine a spacer for the air filter, bit of a mystery really, the air filter where it fits to the carb was too big, there is a spacer already on the carb as you can see in the pictures but it wasn't big enough, so i made another out of a bit of bronze i had as scrap, worked a treat!
Distributor in and timed, oil switch on, plugs gapped and plug cover on.
Dynamo stripped and cleaned, tested OK so i think with a decent reg on will charge no problem.
The wiring...It was a bit of a mess, OK, everything was there, but not connected, but i didn't like the harness, too messy and too many blue bullet terminals, which in my opinion are the work of the devil himself.. So i set about tidying up the wiring. I made a new loom for the dip/horn switch (the golf ball type thingy on the left bar end) and had to make the small mushroom style terminals inside said switch, which took an absolute age to get right, but very rewarding when it went together and worked! The left handlebar grip 'twists' forward for main beam/back for dip. An interesting concept that actually works very well!
Toolbox on, few adjustments here and there..
Grips.
I decided to re-bush the inverted levers as years of use had made the holes oval, this was done without too much fuss, then proceeded to scrape all the silver hammerite paint off them, and prepare them for nickel coating. The grip rings looked very shabby, chrome peeling off and showing corrosion, so i set about taking the chrome off with a wire wheel, only to reveal tat the rings were Bronze! I decided t polish these up, along with the 2 smaller rings on the left bar, with new AMAL grip rubbers they look quite smart i think.
Oh, and i have soldered 5 holes in the bottom of the tank up. The tank is a spare, so i cleaned it out best i could, which of course showed up the holes... A bit of soldering later, and i have a leak free tank! That was until i put the taps on.. The taps are the original ones, and absolutely pissed out when fuel was added, so i stripped them and made some new corks out of a wine bottle cork, and we are now leak free!
So, i decided o oil it up and attempt to start her,
I'll save that till tomorrows instalment...