It followed me home!!

mean gene · Oct 22, 2023

Looks and sounds great! I bet the Misses loved the smell of you when you went into the house! Nothing gets a woman in the mood more than stinky oil fumes LOL

concours · Oct 22, 2023

Fast Eddie said:
I had a Bantam once that did this on occasions.

It culminated one day when it was screaming its tits off at the side of the road. I even yanked off the plug cap and it still kept screaming !

I had to unscrew the pancake air filter and suffocate it to stop it.

I was only 17. I was dumbfounded. Even started thinking it might be haunted!

It needed a de-coke…

No idea how relevant this is to your R3 Baz but… it is a BSA… and it doesn’t switch off… and it does sound like it might be haunted…

Glowing whisker on plug

Fast Eddie · Oct 22, 2023

concours said:
Glowing whisker on plug

Yup, it needed de-coking.

baz · Oct 22, 2023

mean gene said:
Looks and sounds great! I bet the Misses loved the smell of you when you went into the house! Nothing gets a woman in the mood more than stinky oil fumes LOL

It's actually a little bit louder than when I took the video
It's now fitted with a Rob North type 3-1 exhaust with an open megga
It sounds fantastic
The more I've run it the less it smokes
It's starts off with around 95psi oil pressure pressure
Dropping to around 35 when it's fully warmed up at a low idle
It goes up to 80psi when revved
All seems fine
Once I've sorted the ignition switch
Flushed the tank out
Fitted a battery and borrowed a numberplate from my other BSA I shall take it out and see what it runs like
Can't wait

Fast Eddie · Oct 22, 2023

baz said:
Can't wait

Neither can we !

Fast Eddie · Oct 22, 2023

baz said:
It's actually a little bit louder than when I took the video
It's now fitted with a Rob North type 3-1 exhaust with an open megga
It sounds fantastic

I knew I heard something !

baz · Oct 22, 2023

Fast Eddie said:
I knew I heard something !

I'll have to look at baffling it a little without killing it

Fast Eddie · Oct 22, 2023

As sold by Les Whiston

Onder · Oct 22, 2023

Check the oil pressure after fully warmed on a long hill. Does the OP fade? Cold OP doesn't matter. Hot idle will give you an indication but a long pull is what counts.

Fast Eddie · Oct 23, 2023

I’ve probably got this wrong, but I’m sure Phil Pick had a rule that you kick it seven times and the oil pressure light should stay off for seven seconds.

Can any of yooz triple boyz confirm, correct, reject this ?

Personally Baza, I’d be tidying your RockVille up as a rider and, well, ride it. Seems to me it’s far too good to warrant a full and costly rebuild.

baz · Oct 23, 2023

Fast Eddie said:
I’ve probably got this wrong, but I’m sure Phil Pick had a rule that you kick it seven times and the oil pressure light should stay off for seven seconds.

Can any of yooz triple boyz confirm, correct, reject this ?

Personally Baza, I’d be tidying your RockVille up as a rider and, well, ride it. Seems to me it’s far too good to warrant a full and costly rebuild.

Phil Pick did say something like that
I thought it was turning the ignition off and back on and counting the seconds to the oil light coming on

Fast Eddie · Oct 23, 2023

baz said:
Phil Pick did say something like that
I thought it was turning the ignition off and back on and counting the seconds to the oil light coming on

You may well be right there …

Onder · Oct 23, 2023

Pulling the engine down doesn't mean a full rebuild. It means IRAN. If it is indeed in good nick
you are out time and a set of gaskets and rest in the knowledge that you know not hope things are ok.
If things break it gets expensive. But what is worse than expensive is when you fall down and, at most of
our ages, you won't be able to rebuild yourself.

baz · Oct 23, 2023

I don't plan on stripping the motor at the moment
I don't actually have time
I'm interested to see how well it runs
The only reason I may pull the top end or maybe just the rocker boxes is because the pushrod tubes look a bit weepy
I'm wondering if they have been over shimmed
Or slathered in some gasket cement like everything else on the bike

baz · Oct 23, 2023

Anyone know what this is?
Looks like some sort of big fuse?

concours · Oct 23, 2023

baz said:
Anyone know what this is?
Looks like some sort of big fuse?

Doesn't look like any fuse I've ever seen. A way to connect four female spades repurposed from something else.

baz · Nov 21, 2023

Nearly had a heart attack earlier ,I'd unplugged the optimate on the jack plug but lazily I'd left the crocodile clips on the battery
I was removing the tank,I'd just turned the taps off and removed the hoses from the carbs
As I lifted the tank somehow the live side of the optimate jack plug found an earth
It burnt the charging cable out back to battery
Scared the hell out of me!!!!

baz · Nov 21, 2023

baz said:
Nearly had a heart attack earlier ,I'd unplugged the optimate on the jack plug but lazily I'd left the crocodile clips on the battery
I was removing the tank,I'd just turned the taps off and removed the hoses from the carbs
As I lifted the tank somehow the live side of the optimate jack plug found an earth
It burnt the charging cable out back to battery
Scared the hell out of me!!!!

Here's a still from my security camera

concours · Nov 21, 2023

"They all do that..."

grandpaul · Nov 21, 2023

baz said:
Nearly had a heart attack earlier ,I'd unplugged the optimate on the jack plug but lazily I'd left the crocodile clips on the battery
I was removing the tank,I'd just turned the taps off and removed the hoses from the carbs
As I lifted the tank somehow the live side of the optimate jack plug found an earth
It burnt the charging cable out back to battery
Scared the hell out of me!!!!

Imagine if fuel had been drooling from the tap(s)!

It followed me home!!

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