Ricks '75 MkIII Roadster resto/furb

Nice fresh wheels back from Buchanan's. Just waiting on new Dunlop K81s instead of the Avons (client last minute request)

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grandpaul said:
Spent an hour with the dremel burr, that's an hour I hadn't planned on. Anyway, cleaned up the tranny cradle, yokes, frame holes and steering neck.
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I've also got some powder coat to clean off around a few holes on my frame as well. What burr are you using in your Dremel tool? A regular round steel one like the one pictured? I would think it would be pretty easy to get into the frame steel with one of those.
Bill
 

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Ever so gently, then finish with plumber's sanding tape in a split drill bit.
 
This was the offending intake valve; a bit scruffy. Valve replaced, guides will all be replaced. I'll lap them in later today. Just picked up the cylinders, I need to wash them thoroughly then mask & paint them.

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Beautiful freshly Blanchard ground brake discs. Just waiting on one more Dunlop K81 to arrive today and the tires & discs will get mounted to the new rims, then it will be a roller again!

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Oil tank came out quite nicely stripped after 72 hours in Simple Green 50/50 (and it was already grungy stuff I'd used to clean a bunch of filthy parts). So, if you have time on your hands...

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Nicely bored and finish honed cylinders set to low end of tolerance spec to JCC pistons and Hastings rings

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Beautiful sparkling clean head; soda blasted then scrubbed in Simple Green 50/50 (fresh batch!)

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Ready to toss it in the oven, pop out the old guides and slide in the new ones. Then, lap in the valve seats & faces.

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"Oil tank came out quite nicely stripped after 72 hours in Simple Green 50/50 (and it was already grungy stuff I'd used to clean a bunch of filthy parts). So, if you have time on your hands."

Hi Paul,
Are you saying 50:50 Simple Green removes paint?

Ed
 
FINALLY got in the 2nd Dunlop K81. Tires now mounted up. Should be a roller tomorrow!

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Photo was in the fading light of evening, will look MUCH nicer as a roller tomorrow!
 
Squeezing the 2nd set of bloody cush rubbers into the hub is one of the biggest headaches of the restoration!

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It's a roller!

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Now on to the build on the downhill side...

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The headlamp brackets are fitted on the wrong side in the photos so they are currently upside down.
grandpaul said:
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The front wheel timing-side spokes are also reversed from the usual Mk3 pattern.
 
Yep. I do them that way on purpose. They give better clearance to the dash panel wiring on the MkIII that way.
 
grandpaul said:
Yep. I do them that way on purpose. They give better clearance to the dash panel wiring on the MkIII that way.
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I hope you were joking (as it does the exact opposite).
 
It's in the exact same position at the front, and lower if you slide it down.

The other way, it gets closer to the dash, as it slides back.
 
grandpaul said:
It's in the exact same position at the front, and lower if you slide it down.

The other way, it gets closer to the dash, as it slides back.
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I can't say I agree, as I'm sure it can be seen in the photo below, the headlamp will be higher/closer to the console with the bracket upside down (the rear one in the photo) regardless of how it is positioned in the slot when compared with the correctly orientated bracket in front.

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L.A.B. said:
The front wheel timing-side spokes are also reversed from the usual Mk3 pattern.
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I typically take Buchanan's work as correct, but now you have me wondering...

These are Central rims, not Dunlops; is there a difference?
 
grandpaul said:
L.A.B. said:
The front wheel timing-side spokes are also reversed from the usual Mk3 pattern.
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I typically take Buchanan's work as correct, but now you have me wondering...
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grandpaul said:
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Well, the front isn't spoked to the same pattern as it was before you sent the wheels away (below) which is what I would consider to be the usual Mk3 front spoke pattern:

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grandpaul said:
These are Central rims, not Dunlops; is there a difference?
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I don't think so, only that the wheel has been laced to the reversed rotation (RH disc) pre-Mk3 pattern with non-disc side inners and outers swapped over at the hub, and Buchanan's got it right in one of your previous Mk3 restorations (below) however, it's only a relatively minor nitpick and 99% of people probably wouldn't notice or be bothered by it.
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grandpaul said:
Wheels arrived back from Buchanan's.
They look like jewels, VERY shiny.
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Well, I have stated unequivocally that wheel lacing is one of those tasks I have ALWAYS left to Buchanan's (20 years now).

Never had a single spoke breakage, tire puncture, misalignment, imbalance, or any other wheel lacing issue in all that time, and several dozen sets of wheels done by them.
 
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