I am starting a new thread on the build of my recent aqusition. Here is the begining of the saga.
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This bike will be a collection of my original 850's serilized parts and all of the Dunstall bits I have collected.
As it sits now I have about 90% of what I need to finish. Major items still needed are Aluminum rims, SS spokes and rearsets.
So now it's sitting in pieces, most of them in the basment workshop. Now on to finish striping and start the cleanup, repair and painting.
Here are copious amounts of photos for those who enjoy such things.







The reason I found a new inner primary and stator.









Frame repair to worry about another build.

It's glyptol, it seal the pores and it's acid proof. I got some a while back and thought i'd give it a go. so far I like it.

That was christmas present from my brother in law about 10 years ago. I hung it up and it hads been sitting there since. I don't eaven see it anymore.

You got me, I use it every day. It is my most prized posession.

Wow out of all the things for people to pick up on.

Actually as a kid my grandparents had a 40's era dart baseball set. it was a 5 foot by 5 foot dart board of a baseball field with players. And a cofee can full of real darts. Now that was cool.

Round 2 of pictures. I have most of the disasembly done, and a good start on cleaning and polishing.




Journals look good, al ittle staining.

Bores look good, still running STD pistons at 17K

What looks like Moss growing

The PO's present for me, more to fix, luckily i'm not using these cases for this build. I can fix this later.

Exploded engine








Transmission all cleaned readt to reassemble

Second transmission ready to assemble, at a later date

The more time I spend on them the more I think it would be nice to make a living at it. But it is unrealistic right now. I do have a broad range of services offered at WW LLC. So far it has gotten me a 79 corvette to fidddle with, so we'll see if any bikes pan out. I've bid on a few restorations, but nothing stuck. For now i'm content working on my 3. I just need to get rid of this growing pile of spares so I can continue on.

And some more, it will slow down this afternoon until tuesday.
What's wrong with this picture?

Yes, from the factory on both sides no bent tabs. One less thing to buy.

No sludge after 17K, gotta love the filter and people who change oil.



Shiny parts


And nice threads

And not so nice threads. Looks like I will need to find a place to repair it.