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My Triton
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They're great for cleaning jewellery etc.
Cor.Just for the fettlers then, not the feckless
Robbi here’s what a couple of hours soaking in the ultrasonics does for 60 year old carbs. Such a shame they’re 28mm as I’ve a very good pair of 30mm concentrics I could have used. View attachment 97212
The bungee straps were in place of a centrestand spring. I’m not convinced a spring will fit where it’s supposed to with the ‘slickshift’ (aka shitshift) gearbox. For those of you too young to know, this was an attempt by Triumph to negate the need to use a clutch between changes. Putting a foot on the gear-lever would also push the clutch push rod. The usual tip is to remove the mechanism.
And so I decided to rebuild the carbs as my initial order of ’stuff’ has arrived, along with 2 carb gasket kits. All was going well until I screwed in a pilot jet which decided that it no longer wanted to play a part and fell apart. P,empty of language ensued, but I was lucky enough to be able to wriggle the broken off piece out. That’s enough for today/weekend.
Was the ice cream nice?
More major strippage. The motor is finally out and I’ll deliver it to a local-ish Triumph specialist I know of. He can strip it, measure it and let me know what needs to be done to it to bring it back up to spec. Hopefully he can have a look at it in the next 2 months by the time I come home from holiday.
The clutch centre is well mullered, luckily new ones are available from LFHarris, and luckily I have a trade account there.
The clutch centre is well mullered, luckily new ones are available from LFHarris, and luckily I have a trade account there.
I have removed the pin at last. It didn’t want to move easily and took a lot of ingenuity to pull it through and not bash it.
The swingarm is now off to my welder mate so he can fabricate a couple of brackets and tidy up where a slack chain has rubbed - powdercoat couldn’t take up the marks. He will also remove the rubber bushes in preparation for powdercoat when I get home.
Off on Tuesday to take the wheels away to get them stripped, boasted, polished and rebuilt with stainless spokes and Borrani alloy rims - very period looking.
I’ve also cleared off the area of the frame where the vin number lies, it will soon be covered by powdercoat and hidden away once more.
That will be all for now as I’m away on holiday shortly.
The swingarm is now off to my welder mate so he can fabricate a couple of brackets and tidy up where a slack chain has rubbed - powdercoat couldn’t take up the marks. He will also remove the rubber bushes in preparation for powdercoat when I get home.
Off on Tuesday to take the wheels away to get them stripped, boasted, polished and rebuilt with stainless spokes and Borrani alloy rims - very period looking.
I’ve also cleared off the area of the frame where the vin number lies, it will soon be covered by powdercoat and hidden away once more.
That will be all for now as I’m away on holiday shortly.
Well it wasn’t quite all. I’ve loaded up the car to take the wheels and frame off to see a Norton specialist tomorrow with a view to get the wheels overhauled with new rims.
I had a couple of hours to kill, ie stay out of the way of the wife, and so I had a pootle around in the garage. I decided to wash off the primary chaincases in the parts washer, and took a whizzy wheel and brass brush to remove hard stains. I found one horrid bodge where the drain plug had a stripped thread and in its place was a coach bolt and square nut!
On removing and binning said bolt I decided to have a look at the stripped thread hole and see what I could do with it. Unfortunately inside the case part of the casting was broken away and what remained wasnt very thick. I checked the diameter and it was close to being able to wind in a helicoil. I tapped the hole but the helicoil wouldn’t wind in correctly as there was insufficient depth of hole. So I simply tapped it out to m8 - yes, sacrilege on an old brit bike I know, but I don’t have UNC taps. I doubt I can trust the amount of threads left in the thin case, and unless I can get it welded I will probably JB Weld it inside and then drill and tap it further.
I had a couple of hours to kill, ie stay out of the way of the wife, and so I had a pootle around in the garage. I decided to wash off the primary chaincases in the parts washer, and took a whizzy wheel and brass brush to remove hard stains. I found one horrid bodge where the drain plug had a stripped thread and in its place was a coach bolt and square nut!
On removing and binning said bolt I decided to have a look at the stripped thread hole and see what I could do with it. Unfortunately inside the case part of the casting was broken away and what remained wasnt very thick. I checked the diameter and it was close to being able to wind in a helicoil. I tapped the hole but the helicoil wouldn’t wind in correctly as there was insufficient depth of hole. So I simply tapped it out to m8 - yes, sacrilege on an old brit bike I know, but I don’t have UNC taps. I doubt I can trust the amount of threads left in the thin case, and unless I can get it welded I will probably JB Weld it inside and then drill and tap it further.
