650SS Rebuild

possm · Feb 16, 2012

Thanks Beng I am still sorting the seat out, my panel beater did a botch of extending it so it has now gone elsware to see if it can be rectified, otherwise i have talked to RK Leighton but they will take a month before they can start. Tank badge screws came from RGM as did the replica Rev counter drive, i have seashed to no avail for an O.E. one.
Al

possm · Feb 18, 2012

I think i am still going forward, though i am still waiting to see if the seat base is salvageable, but i have just put a battery in it and lights work as does the horn and brake switch, fuel tank mountings all fitted and work so next i guess is oil, fire up and seat so anyway more photo's-

Al

ashman · Feb 19, 2012

Looking good Al

Ashley

cjandme · Feb 20, 2012

+1 on the looking good!! Cj

daveh · Feb 20, 2012

I second the two previous posts. Looking forward to seeing the seat fitted and then it will look complete. Good job so far!

Dave

frankdamp · Feb 20, 2012

I apologise for not having found the photo of my "works hack" 650SS. Still sorting through old photo albums. Thinking about that bike, I don't remember it having a tachometer. I think it had a speedometer in the back of the headlamp shell and no tach. I sure don't remember that Rube Goldberg (Heath Robinson for my fellow Brits) flex drive coming off the end of the camshaft. It's very visible.

I will renew my efforts to find that photo. It showed the right-hand side of the bike very clearly.

BTW, Possm, that's an awe-inspiring piece of work. I don't thin aything coming out of the factory would have looked that good. Bloody marvellous!!

kraakevik · Feb 20, 2012

My own wrecked '62 650SS I bought in Nigeria as a 12-year-old had no tachometer either--I wonder whether the export models to the Commonwealth and colonies had a lower level of trim--that heavy bike would still do 110 mph a mile high on the Benue Plateau

Tim Kraakevik
kraakevik@voyager.net

Webby03 · Feb 21, 2012

Great Job Al !
It must be near time to fire her up!

All the best

Webby

Bernhard · Feb 21, 2012

BTW, Possm, that's an awe-inspiring piece of work. I don't thin aything coming out of the factory would have looked that good. Bloody marvellous!![/quote]

It is a whole lot better than anything that came out of the factory, as it is built with a lot of TLC.
I’m afraid that if I owned a bike like this I would have to keep it for sunny days riding only, still a GREAT job.

possm · Mar 3, 2012

Progress- I decided to ordered a seat fom RK Leighton and it arrived on friday, "I am very impressed" when I spoke to Andrew at Leightons he said it would be 4 weeks before he could start it, It was delivered to my home within 3 weeks of me placing the order this is including the time it took to travel from England to NewZealand, HIGHLY RECOMENDED. Next will be to get her started.
Al

beng · Mar 4, 2012

That seat looks good from here.

jsouthard · Mar 10, 2012

Great Job! Beautiful.

possm · Mar 10, 2012

Today was the day!. I have had a couple of problems first i had mucked up the cam timing, over my lifetime I have timed close to a 100 commando's and several Atlas but this time I cocked it up no excuses, last weekend I started by filling the oil and petrol with the hope of an easy start up but no, no compression how can this be? I finally swallowed my pride and pulled the timing cover and yes instead of 10 pins I had 12 enough said! and then iI was not happy with the way the timing cover went on but after stripping and checking it all lined up. So on to start up, I managed to get it to start by kick several times though very reluctantly but when running i was able to confirm oil was returning to the tank, I have ridden her around the block though she is still reluctant to fire on the kick start though I [now] have heaps of compression so a full carb strip is in my future anyway pictures so far-

Al

johnm · Mar 11, 2012

Blimey !

What can I say ? That is seriously smart ! Congratulations

John

grandpaul · Mar 11, 2012

Doggone it, quit chopping off parts of the bike in the photos, my brain can't put it all together.

Pristine.

AussieCombat · Mar 15, 2012

Good on ya mate,
Beautifull stuff.
It was a pleasure to watch the whole process Possum.
Hope you get some nice weather before winter, to get her sorted out.
AC.

savingclassicmotorcycles · Aug 4, 2012

wow mate this has flew together looks absolutely outstanding

what paint did you use for the tank spraying mine tomorrow hopefully

Thanks,

Tom

ntst8 · Aug 4, 2012

Possm
a beautiful job as always.
Hope you will be bringing this to Collingwood in Feb.
Iain

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