Tools You Have Made to Maintain your Norton

Quick and dirty engine stand made from old bed frames and other scrap.

Tools You Have Made to Maintain your Norton


Tools You Have Made to Maintain your Norton


Ken
 
Tools You Have Made to Maintain your NortonTools You Have Made to Maintain your NortonThis is not a hand tool but a visual tool if you are considering porting a Norton head. Sunday morning and I felt like playing. I always heard they were thin at the spring pocket, also watched a U-tube on how to measure. Nothing works like a picture. A friend gave a cracked head mostly to set up repairing exhaust port thread. Ports measure 30mm now and the thickness is only 5mm. If it maters I think it is an H10 head.
 
That is brilliant, thanks for that mean gene. I believe the RH4 head is more problematic than the RH10, but even so look at how thin the casting is at the bottom of the rocker box...


Tools You Have Made to Maintain your Norton
 
It's not as thin as this pics looks, I cut in behind intake flange. I'll post another picTools You Have Made to Maintain your NortonFive mm thick also
 
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Not a tool you have to make, just a couple of suggestions as substitutes for the Norton 13-1755 850 Head Steady Removal tool. This is simply a 5mm hex bit [for a 3/8" drive 5mm Allen socket] with the appropriate sized double box end [spanner] wrench.

850 Commando Head Steady special tool

I used my automotive serpentine belt tool and a 3/8" drive 5mm Allen socket. Works super for getting to that middle SHCS [aka Allen] bolt. Plus it gives you considerably more leverage.

Tools You Have Made to Maintain your Norton


The serpentine belt tool is great to own, if you do any of your own automotive maintenance. See

Serpentine Belt Removal & Installation Tool

My tool in the photo above is a Lisle brand, rather than the brand shown in the Amazon link. They are identical tools however. Super handy for areas where there is not enough room to get a 3/8" ratchet & socket or when more leverage is needed.

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The steel bore of my 850 Mk III rear master cylinder was seized so tightly, that even with heat, I could not unscrew it from the aluminum housing. So, no more Mr. Nice Guy! Looking for a longer lever, I found a 3 foot long piece of "UniStrut" [steel angle with pre-drilled holes and slots] I bolted the housing to the UniStrut. I didn't even have to drill any holes! :) I clamped the two flats of the steel bore into my vise. Apply heat as needed and success!

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This is the photo I wanted to attach to my post #85. At the time, I could not find the photo at that time.

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You should run up a bunch of them and put them on offer. A tool more often used than most would wish.
 
Another special tool, which allows use of a standard automotive C-clamp style valve spring compressor. It fits on top of the valve spring with a notch to clear the rocker. Just a short piece of black pipe.

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YING said:
Cliff,
What size drill bit is that?
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Sorry, just spotted this question. I made two actually, a 17 ( 0.43mm) which didn’t cure the unreliable tickover and a 19 (0.48mm), which being economic with my energy ( a lazy arse) I ran through the 17’s to make them 19’s with the carbs in situ.
 
The tiny drill tool for cleaning the idle jet passage out if you want to run a few up.
 
My take on an engine stand, made out of a power saw dumped in a skip, the saw was junk , but i had an idea for the rotating base, I can now easily work on both sides of the motor and with a few additions I can lock the table for tightening things and the old drive belt is used to lock the crank.
Tools You Have Made to Maintain your Norton
 
The first time I had to replace brake pads on my MK3, I was having trouble backing the big screwcap off, corroded on.
I sawed off a 1/2" socket extension, welded on some rods, and made a simple tool to put on my impact wrench and they all popped loose real well.
Jaydee
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