Engine Breakdown

Engine Breakdown this weekend

Firstly built myself a nice little engine stand:

Then discovered a rebore will be needed as part of the piston has exploded so some bad scoring on the bore:

But no real big issue as I half expected that anyway:

I don't think this engine has been touched in many a year and the pistons are standard from manufacture. Some very tight bolts and studs.

Don't you just love gears and oil?

Another tool bought, hopefuuly only to be used once. Love playing with pullers though real engineers stuff!

So all stripped down, haven't touched the head yet, that will be next.

The Build Begins

Okay started to put bits on instead of taking them off!

1st to go on was the centre stand all nicely painted, notice the stainless nuts, which are costing a fortune but in the end worth it I think.

Then came the headstock, new bearings fitted, ignore the top nut in the last picture as this will be replaced with a shiny new one when I get round to it.

Finally front forks fitted, which is a bit of a cheat as I couldn't fit them properly as I need a service tool for pulling the stanchions through the top yoke (oh well another visit to the internet and Dragon Motorcycles)

I fitted the handle bars, to get a look but again these will be replaced with shiny new ones when time is ready. Like the way I've spun them round though to make it more of a drop handle model.

The other thing, is it's a wonder to me how people paint everything and then manage to rebuild without scratching the new paintwork as I'll have plenty of touching up to do.

One last thing first injury on the bike, got myself two nice blood blisters fitting the forks (OUCH) a few expletives were uttered, sympathy cards gratefully received.

So there we have it the build begins, lots of work to come but will fit front mudguard and old wheels for time being next which will give me a rolling chassis to work on.