New project bike

Well the frame has been paited black now, will let it sit for a few days in the hot shed to go nice and hard, will get new steering bearing today and start on the front end first as well the rear end, with any luck will have a rolling chassie by the end of the week and on the weekend I will start cleaning engine parts plus a few more pics.

Ashley

ashman said:

One step ahead of you I put soft bolts in it so they break if I go down that side and hopefully it will just slide away from the bike, but the Joe hunts are tuff as I have alread gone down that side last year, with a hard front tyre and faulty front brakes, won't happen again, only smashed the maggie cover and my friend had a spare one, but I got a new one sent from Joe Hunt plus a tune up kit, only 5 days shipping to Australia and a lot cheaper that buying from here.

Ashley

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Hope you partially drilled holes in them to allow them to shear off.

Hi Bernhard

The idea is to stay upright, I have owned this bike for 36 years now and have only layed it down 4 times and fallen over 3 times from a sinking side stand, any accerdent will do damage, its the risk we take when ever we are riding.

Ashley

Hi all

Here some more picks of the project so far








going to get rubber gaiters for the forks legs.

Ashley

Love your benches, they make mine look clean :wink: :wink: :wink:

That looks like a nice start, keep posting pictures of your project as you make progress, I for one love to see th evolution.

Jean

Hi Jean

When my benches are in a big mess I know where my tools and parts are, I find when my work area is nice and clean I have troubles finding things as it means I haven't been doing much, hoping to pull the crank apart this weekend and give it a good clean out of the sluge traps and oil gullies as well will be micing up the jonuals to see what over size they are for new bearing, all the motor cases have been cleaned and will hone the bores as well, the swining arm has been mounted but have to put to old shocks on till I get new ones as the old ones are stuffed, will take more pics when I get the wheels on.

Ashley

That is a neat 650. Did you say once that it had a local racing history?

Hi Beng

Yes it has racing history, the last owner who I got it from brought it from Mick Ferrall (not sure that is the correct way of spelling his name) over 15 years ago he builds and races old Nortons in the 70s and 80s, he is still around building Norton race engines, but I haven't been able to make contact to him yet, a friend of mine who got me into Nortons knows him, the motor is a 65C but has been built with SS spects, twin carbs, ballanced crank, hi comp pistons 20thu oversize, has straight through mega phones that have been welded to the headers, the head was missing from the bike when I got it so don't know what work had been done to it, it took me 8 months to chase up a good head for it, the frame number is 18 95000 61 Manxman and the engine number is 95076 so will be intresting to find out more about this bike.

Ashley

Hi All

The crank is all apart and is very clean inside, should have kept it together but best to be safe than sorry later, the Conrod bearings are standard size but one set is showing some bronze from wear, but is evenly worn, the crank where the rods run have no marks and are very smooth after I gave then a good clean up, have got new starndard size slipper bearings, but my supplier had run out of stock of Supablend main bearings and will get them this weekend, but this give me a chance to make a list of things I need to put the motor together, so the bottom end will go together next week all parts have been cleaned and ready to go.

As I am going to run a open belt drive on this bike I have decided to run a Commando clutch plus the Commando belt drive kit is cheaper than the Dommie belt drive kit, as well the Commando belt is 5mm wider, haven't decided what altenator set up I will run on this bike yet but I won't be running a battery at all, the Lucas racing maggie is in great condition and puts out a great big blue spark just turning it with my hand slowly, just can't find anyone to hold onto the plug lead when I turn it :twisted:

Things will start to pick up a bit of speed with this project in the next 2 weeks, just keeping the beer fridge full will be the hardest part :lol:
The bores are in very good condition and will only need a slite hone to clean them up from sitting for 16 years on the self and the piston rings look like new with no sign of any wear at all, the gear box is still all together so will just pull the outer and iner case apart and see what it look likes inside, if things look ok I will just close it up and leave it alone.

Will get more picks up as I go.

Ashley

Hi All

Have all the parts now to put the motor together, just got to find the time, just have to get rid of the wife and kids :twisted:

Ashley

Hi All

Haven't done much with the project bike of late, but things will start to pick up now as it starts to get a bit colder, just got my new Ikon shocks for the rear end on Tuesday, look the same as my Koni shocks but 25mm shorter, the crank cases will go up to the kitchen in the next few days (when the wife is out) to heat up to put the new Superblend bearings in, after that things will move along at a good speed I hope, hoping to have it fired up before the end of the year, as soon as I get into it again I will post more pics.

Ashley

Haven't done anything with the project bike for about 6 months I think I will have to get back into it as I have all the parts now to do what is needed, but so many things on the go as well as a new Thruxton and my other Norton to ride, I have had a few offers to sell it which has been good prices but I think I like to see it going before I would sell it, I have been offered $5,000 as is which is very tempting, but no need for the money as of yet.

Ashley