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Saturday 25 January 2014

Strip Down Started...

This engine is pretty dirty. The story goes, it come with a trike, the bloke chucked a blanket over it in his garage and eight years later, here we are.

The case looks in good form, I removed all the ancillaries today. Inlet was cracked along the preheat somehow? It had also had a hole drilled in it, just left of the carb.

German PICT 3 carb, looks to be in good order, will strip and clean anyway...

The case has a bit of damage on the lower left lip where the tin screws into at the back. Will have to work on that.

All looks good though, seems as if there had been a spider nest in one of the cylinders? Valve was left open!



The oil cooler seems to have been leaking, the block studs come straight out unsurprisingly...


New Lump!

After a lot of hair pulling, I am the proud owner of a forty four year old engine!

To be fair, I have taken a few bits off already here...


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So, I seem to have cut the story short. The wheels were great, it was running sweet for a good while.

Then, late on night on the dual carriageway, the engine sounded like bricks in a washing machine.

A conrod had shattered. Catastrophic failure.

Destroyed the case, destroyed the crank and buggered it.

Went into dry storage. Over two years later. Here we are. Time to get her back on the road...