From 22 to mid 30s Norton Passion and Restoration Norton 1927 16H Flat Tanker, Norton RAF 1944 WD16H, Norton Commando 1968, Norton 650ss 1967

Oh yep gotta watch that with the modern ones!

An indeed RD350LC 1980 with so many nos parts unfortunately having to let it go to help fund the house move so if anyone’s after one with parts that you will never ever see nos again together lemme know, was actually the first motorcycle dad an I got together :) lotta memories!

At one point I had 4 2x rd350lc 2x Rd250lcs the rzv500r that’s in the opening post an a rd250c

Now it’s just the Nortons the bmw 1150 an the Nx500 I got for dad :)
 
Quite a lot of progress today listed the 350lc over the weekend,

Decided to colour sand an polish the tank I’m still learning with this stuff made a tiny mistake on the other side so gonna sort that with some polish, as I’ve just re done the colour sanding, considering it was rattle cans an I’ve not got a da happy for now, eventually I wanna get an ally tank made as this steel one is quite heavy.

Next step is to hand enamel some badges to fit the smaller Indian roundels,

From 22 to mid 30s Norton Passion and Restoration Norton 1927 16H Flat Tanker, Norton RAF 1944 WD16H, Norton Commando 1968, Norton 650ss 1967
From 22 to mid 30s Norton Passion and Restoration Norton 1927 16H Flat Tanker, Norton RAF 1944 WD16H, Norton Commando 1968, Norton 650ss 1967
 
everyone hope we are all well it’s all action on the motorcycle front at the moment :) ordering the final bits for the Commando this week,

An today I refitted the Magneto after it went away to find an issue (someone had made part of the points block outta the wrong material an when the mag was under a few hours of riding its stop the spark, which caused me a few long pushes!

now that’s refitted to the flat tank Norton she’s running again n I did a 3 mile loop few teething problems to sort out, that are different from last time.

I’m currently trying to settle on the timing on her for our modern day 99 Ron fuel an I’m currently getting black spark plugs again so gonna reduce the pre-filled amount of oil in the sump back to 200ml now From 265ml (ballpark to what Norton Georges book said) an try a few modern plug equivalents to the old klg hs3 they would have come with. I’ve got that down as an nkg ab6 from previous notes.

Gonna try those tomorrow while I rule out the C3 plug incase it’s gone bad.

Once I’ve got to the bottom of the flat tanker I’m gonna carry on with the WD16H :)

From 22 to mid 30s Norton Passion and Restoration Norton 1927 16H Flat Tanker, Norton RAF 1944 WD16H, Norton Commando 1968, Norton 650ss 1967
 
savingclassicmotorcycles said:
everyone hope we are all well it’s all action on the motorcycle front at the moment :) ordering the final bits for the Commando this week,

An today I refitted the Magneto after it went away to find an issue (someone had made part of the points block outta the wrong material an when the mag was under a few hours of riding its stop the spark, which caused me a few long pushes!

now that’s refitted to the flat tank Norton she’s running again n I did a 3 mile loop few teething problems to sort out, that are different from last time.

I’m currently trying to settle on the timing on her for our modern day 99 Ron fuel an I’m currently getting black spark plugs again so gonna reduce the pre-filled amount of oil in the sump back to 200ml now From 265ml (ballpark to what Norton Georges book said) an try a few modern plug equivalents to the old klg hs3 they would have come with. I’ve got that down as an nkg ab6 from previous notes.

Gonna try those tomorrow while I rule out the C3 plug incase it’s gone bad.

Once I’ve got to the bottom of the flat tanker I’m gonna carry on with the WD16H :)

From 22 to mid 30s Norton Passion and Restoration Norton 1927 16H Flat Tanker, Norton RAF 1944 WD16H, Norton Commando 1968, Norton 650ss 1967
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Did you sell the Elsie ?
 
Bit more progress on the 1927 16h Flat Tank Norton today been out on the 16h 4 miles this morning then an 11 an a half mile test ride at pace down some country lanes.

She was absolutely flying at points, on some national roads got some footage to come of that, this was the plug after getting caught in some traffic n held up by modern vehicles much improved over previous some more fine tuning to do 🙂 a huge step in the right direction.

After getting the magneto sorted,
running morris C40 castor an a C3 plug, settled at 200ml in the sump, itl be interesting to look at the plug after the ride back,

now to get the WD16H sorted over the next couple of weeks.

From 22 to mid 30s Norton Passion and Restoration Norton 1927 16H Flat Tanker, Norton RAF 1944 WD16H, Norton Commando 1968, Norton 650ss 1967

From 22 to mid 30s Norton Passion and Restoration Norton 1927 16H Flat Tanker, Norton RAF 1944 WD16H, Norton Commando 1968, Norton 650ss 1967

From 22 to mid 30s Norton Passion and Restoration Norton 1927 16H Flat Tanker, Norton RAF 1944 WD16H, Norton Commando 1968, Norton 650ss 1967
 
Bit more progress

Elsie sold went to a really nice person just gotta sell all the other nos parts now.

Good news is I have some more room in the workshop now.

Got both the 68’ Commando and the WW2 Norton into an easy position to work on them.
Planning on getting the WD16H running next week :) got a bit of time.

From 22 to mid 30s Norton Passion and Restoration Norton 1927 16H Flat Tanker, Norton RAF 1944 WD16H, Norton Commando 1968, Norton 650ss 1967

Also got out on the flat tanker again she’s running nice.

From 22 to mid 30s Norton Passion and Restoration Norton 1927 16H Flat Tanker, Norton RAF 1944 WD16H, Norton Commando 1968, Norton 650ss 1967
 
Well everyone what a happy day this is a huge thanks to Martyn who messaged me out of the blue on the WD Fb group with a part I have been trying to get hold of for 4 years! You guessed it looking at the picture the late type rear carrier for the WW2 Norton!

Next up I’ve gotta fabricate a side stand bracket for it an get the other brackets to fit my nos pannier frames.

Keeping our classic motorcycles an rolling pieces of history really is a team effort :)

What a monumental day everyone!

In other news it looks like my nos rd350lc mph speedo a rev counter are getting collected on Saturday that leaves one remaining nos mph speedo to sell after Saturday, the tank, an a few other smalls then that’s the end of me having Japanese classics.

The end of an era! N the commitment to these iconic WD bikes an Nortons.


From 22 to mid 30s Norton Passion and Restoration Norton 1927 16H Flat Tanker, Norton RAF 1944 WD16H, Norton Commando 1968, Norton 650ss 1967
 

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