Busy week cleaning/blasting the last bits for more paint and polishing, nearly messed up when my one useful hand let go of the cyl head but luckily i caught it with my bad one and made me broken finger throb for a bit managed to polish some bits as well. Hopefully this week i can finish the engine build.
Your project is looking great! sorry bout the finger, ouch. better luck in the future and keep up the good work. Can't wait to see her finished.
Cyl head is coming along and should be done soon, gearbox is back together and fitted a new oil pump just to be safe. Built up primary side as well with new pressure plate and steel discs, fitted a new drive chain as well as old was unknown.
More cleaning and prepping for more paintwork for the last few days, also managed to get the front n rear wheels sorted with new brake shoes and wheel bearings, also new bearing in the rear chain wheel/brake drum as the rear axle has 3 bearings with a QD wheel. Fitted timing and gearbox covers along with clutch cable gear lever and kick start.
Those pistons look SERIOUS!! I bet it's gonna be a bastid to kick over. I know it's a different beastie, but as I remember them the pistons on my 5TA (I said it was different!) were somewhat flatter with just a delicate hint of convex shaping on them. And that bugger knew how to kick back when it was in a bad mood!!
I think the early bikes had a shorter kick start lever, in the last few years i have also given up on the old but reliable points and condensers as the new electronic ignitions you can buy now make starting far better.
Didn't have that luxury all those years ago unfortunately. It actually had a points distributor system for me to play with - which I did. IIRC timing was done by loosening it off and turning it until the tick over was at its maximum and then backing it off slightly and tightening it up again. Seemed to work okay, but that was about fifty years ago!! Happy days.
Lol i am building it for my partner Su so have not bothered about the cost with in reason but the days of buying a classic bike and doing it up and even breaking even have long gone:-(
Sadly British and Jap classics are now far to expensive to restore properly unless you are lucky and find a cheap one, people buying them as investments have pushed prices up :-( There are now loads of so called restorers building show bikes that they are selling for top money but lots of the buyers are getting fleeced as these restorers don't know what they are doing, the bike might be nice n shiny but they have no idea mechanically and the horror stories i have heard and seen are frighting.
