No Show

 

Well, no show for me anyway. The weather was so bad I couldn’t go to Kempton Park - I couldn't get my car out of the drive because of too much snow and ice.  Nor did I get my rocker box feed made.  This was going to cost too much money and it would take too long to make, so it was cheaper and quicker for me to buy one already made.  I went for the SRM one - the only thing that I would have liked was that it said BSA instead of their name.

You might wonder why I went for this type and not the original?  The originals tend to fracture with the vibration from the bike – as I found out to my cost with the old one.

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Carburettor

 

I have made the cables and fitted them in the carb - had one little problem though, when I was fitting the cables I dropped the thing on the floor. I expected to see the bell mouth out of shape or something broken, but fortunately everything looked ok, So now it’s bolted on the engine, and both cables have been adjusted, The carburettor that I fitted is a monobloc that I bought last winter and have run on the bike all thoughout the summer months, so I know it works ok, The old carb that I used to have fitted was a Concentric which worked with no problems but it was just the wrong type for the bike,      

You know when I said that everything looked ok after I dropped  the thing on the floor?  Well, it wasn't!  When I was taking the photos to put on the blog I saw that the throttle stop screw was bent. So, it looks like another item to go on the “to get list”.   

As my intention was to have the bike on the road for April 2011, and Christmas is just around the corner,  things will be slowing down a bit until the New Year.   And there are only a couple of things to do now; one is that I am waiting for a rocker box feed pipe, which is going to be made from a lump of billet;  and the other is I need to get two cables made.  Normally I make my own, but one is for the rear brake and the other is the clutch cable and as I don't like the DIY cable kits for this, I’d sooner get them made.  I am going to Kempton Park bike jumble in West London, on Saturday 4th Dec, if the weather is fine (like no snow - I do hate winters). The cable man should be there (and some other stallholders that I want to see).  I’ll let you know if I get any goodies! 

Choke Lever

 

Today the postman came with my choke lever (which I won on a well known auction website). I have been looking for one of these since owning my bike -the only thing wrong was it was a bit pricy! But I have one now so the one on the handlebars can come off. The difference between this one and a normal handlebar type lever is that the clamp on the back is hinged so it wraps around the frame (which is just over 1in ), and is held on with one nut & bolt. The hand lever was a bit too long for my liking so I swapped it with the one that I just took off the handlebars, which is much shorter in length and looks much better.

  

All that I have to do now is make a short choke cable and fit it to the carburettor. Oh yes, nearly forgot, I have to make the throttle cable too - then I can fit the carburettor. 

The Exhaust

 

I purchased this exhaust about six months ago from a well known company in the UK, so, no problem I thought. Well the first thing I did was to put some anti-blueing in the exhaust pipes - this is a product called kreem, which I think comes from the USA. I have used this before many years a go but it was a white colour then and it worked very well so I though I would use it again.

Now, this job should take no longer than around 45 minutes, but it wasn't to be. The exhaust pipes went on with no problem. But when I tried fitting the silencers, nothing wanted to fit. When I looked at the old silencer brackets they were an one inch longer than the new ones. After a couple of phone calls, and a chat with some friends, they all said the smaller ones were the right size. The thing was, the rear passenger footrest would not go over the silencer and through the hole that fixes them to the frame. Plus the hole was an inch lower and could not reach the hole in the frame. So, did i have the wrong silencers? Also, the exhaust pipes were supposed to have an upward bend on the ends, but they were the same as the old pipes that I had just taken off, and as I have had the new ones for six months and had put the anti-blueing stuff in the pipes, I could not send them back. So what I did was cleaned and painted the old brackets, made two quarter inch spacers on the lath to space out the silencers, and then fitted them.

Well they’re on and pretty straight, but I still think its the wrong exhaust.