Newcomer looking for buying advice
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You've been warned...
It's not too late to flip that thing on eBay for a quick grand and put the cash towards your Honda.
You'll live a much more relaxing life.
It's not too late to flip that thing on eBay for a quick grand and put the cash towards your Honda.
You'll live a much more relaxing life.
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You need to buy the proper tools now, Whitworth, you need to buy or download a manual.
Then if you go inside the engine which is easy you need more proper tools.
That engine looks like it hasn't been opened from new, that means it will have a lower chance of some numb nuts having been there (without the proper tools)
It will most likely still have the original bearings, roller drive side, ball on the timing side.
It will also probably have the slotted pistons.
Who knows what be in the sludge trap in the crankshaft.
If you pull the rocker shafts from the head, heat the head, the pins have some interference fit wise, you need a threaded slide hammer for that.
There are other pullers needed if you split the engine cases.
At some point you will find out why it was off the road, not many mint bikes were parked up and left to rot after being picked over.
Maybe it was something minor.
There are simple logics with old Brit bikes, if you go over everything you will be OK, if you get caught up in the bolt shiny $hit to it (paint etc) and don't check the small stuff you will go down the road of many of these old bikes, owner induced problems.
You do not have to replace every part, just make sure it will deliver reliable service, check, check, check and its free for the most part.
The key word is eliminate the bodges if you find them, because a lot of owners were and still are bodger's.
Bodgers are everywhere mind you, here is the camshaft out of my 73 Eldorado. :roll:
Then if you go inside the engine which is easy you need more proper tools.
That engine looks like it hasn't been opened from new, that means it will have a lower chance of some numb nuts having been there (without the proper tools)
It will most likely still have the original bearings, roller drive side, ball on the timing side.
It will also probably have the slotted pistons.
Who knows what be in the sludge trap in the crankshaft.
If you pull the rocker shafts from the head, heat the head, the pins have some interference fit wise, you need a threaded slide hammer for that.
There are other pullers needed if you split the engine cases.
At some point you will find out why it was off the road, not many mint bikes were parked up and left to rot after being picked over.
Maybe it was something minor.
There are simple logics with old Brit bikes, if you go over everything you will be OK, if you get caught up in the bolt shiny $hit to it (paint etc) and don't check the small stuff you will go down the road of many of these old bikes, owner induced problems.
You do not have to replace every part, just make sure it will deliver reliable service, check, check, check and its free for the most part.
The key word is eliminate the bodges if you find them, because a lot of owners were and still are bodger's.
Bodgers are everywhere mind you, here is the camshaft out of my 73 Eldorado. :roll:
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Buy a Honda and meet the nicest people .
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That's exactly why I DON'T ride a Hon-dog!Matt Spencer said:
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Bassmasta said:
Look familiar?
Like someone said earlier, start your own thread, and get a Photobucket account for the hundreds of pictures we all want you to take along the road to recovery.
Welcome!!!
Nathan
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auldblue said:
i have chased a number of those $2000. = $4000. nortons for sale... every one was a scam, there arn't no $2000.00 nortons in running condition.... here is how some go down
OH you want to inspect it, sorry its crated in a warehouse ready to ship to an overseas buyer which fell through, but we can ship to YOUR address, just send money, or; im working on a cruise ship send money will have it shipped....
Thank you for the kind words and help already!
I am extremely excited to get to join this community.
I will post updates as they come, but sadly they will be few and far between until this spring after the holidays and I get my other bike rideable for the summer as well as my drift car(main hobby) sorted for the next season.
Then its full steam ahead!
For now I am just collecting common tools for this that I don't have already (everything whitworth and special tools like the exhaust wrench) as well as a god manual. Seems Clymer is the one to get?
My exhaust pipes are loose currently. It doesn't bother me too much as they need replacing anyway, but it seems strange to me. Do these things just loosen up?
There is oil in the oil tank too which makes me feel a little better. It is really low, but still shows on the dipstick.
Considering the bike hasn't been titled since 2005 I think I'm okay with it.
I am extremely excited to get to join this community.
I will post updates as they come, but sadly they will be few and far between until this spring after the holidays and I get my other bike rideable for the summer as well as my drift car(main hobby) sorted for the next season.
Then its full steam ahead!
For now I am just collecting common tools for this that I don't have already (everything whitworth and special tools like the exhaust wrench) as well as a god manual. Seems Clymer is the one to get?
My exhaust pipes are loose currently. It doesn't bother me too much as they need replacing anyway, but it seems strange to me. Do these things just loosen up?
There is oil in the oil tank too which makes me feel a little better. It is really low, but still shows on the dipstick.
Considering the bike hasn't been titled since 2005 I think I'm okay with it.
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Hello ,representing dead King's estate from Nigeria, King Norton has Norton motorbikes to be picked up. Send bank info and security deposit for shipment to intended inheritor. 2000 of your money should do. Most exhaust pipes little lose and rusty. Should fix up. Send security deposit now.
If they are loose at the head connection you may well need to have thread inserts installed in the head. This is one of the well known deficiencies (of which there are many) of the Norton. There are two kinds of Norton heads, those with exhaust port thread inserts and those that need exhaust port thread inserts. You've only just begun.
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