I’m going to bore you to tears with this, I’ll share with you the strip down and subsequent bodging up the rebuild as time allows.
Some details that I’ve previously bored you with need repeating. It’s a 1960 Slimline Featherbed frame that once housed a twin engine, as evidenced by the front engine mounting plates. The engine is a 1961 Triumph Bonneville T120R. The whole lot was cobbled together in 1962 by the owner, whose family I’ve just purchased it from. He’d had it all 62 years.
I’ve started to unbolt some of the stuff to let me get an idea of how it went together and in what order to attack it further. My initial look at it suggests it was not really well built, sorry Brian, and a tad bodged. I must do better!
OK, seat off and the bodgery shows. A couple of bits of angle iron and mismatched nuts and bolts. The wiring, what little there is of it, was just held together with horrible connectors - I can make a loom with good quality components I already keep “in stock”. There’s no evidence of where a battery was sited, yet there’s evidence that the alternator was rectified and there’s a zener diode fitted. Peculiar
With the tank off, that was easy there’s a single attachment for the strap at the front and nothing at all at the rear. It wasn’t strapped down and there’s no rear mounting point. That rear mudguard is totally the wrong size and angle, but as it’s cracked I’ll need a new one anyway.
Theres plenty of evidence of many years of neglect - I think I’ll need to strip and rebuild the motor as it’s as oily as the Exxon Valdez.
Then, buggerit I’m cold and need a cuppa, so I’m back indoors again.
Some details that I’ve previously bored you with need repeating. It’s a 1960 Slimline Featherbed frame that once housed a twin engine, as evidenced by the front engine mounting plates. The engine is a 1961 Triumph Bonneville T120R. The whole lot was cobbled together in 1962 by the owner, whose family I’ve just purchased it from. He’d had it all 62 years.
I’ve started to unbolt some of the stuff to let me get an idea of how it went together and in what order to attack it further. My initial look at it suggests it was not really well built, sorry Brian, and a tad bodged. I must do better!
OK, seat off and the bodgery shows. A couple of bits of angle iron and mismatched nuts and bolts. The wiring, what little there is of it, was just held together with horrible connectors - I can make a loom with good quality components I already keep “in stock”. There’s no evidence of where a battery was sited, yet there’s evidence that the alternator was rectified and there’s a zener diode fitted. Peculiar
With the tank off, that was easy there’s a single attachment for the strap at the front and nothing at all at the rear. It wasn’t strapped down and there’s no rear mounting point. That rear mudguard is totally the wrong size and angle, but as it’s cracked I’ll need a new one anyway.
Theres plenty of evidence of many years of neglect - I think I’ll need to strip and rebuild the motor as it’s as oily as the Exxon Valdez.
Then, buggerit I’m cold and need a cuppa, so I’m back indoors again.
