1964 Norton Atlas 750cc restore project

fumanchew

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Recently acquired a 64 Atlas in good condition, engine turn over, all cables function freely, gears shift. We are missing the spark plug wires for now, acquired the bike 2 days ago. We will be posting a running journal if you will as we move forward with bringing this classic back to life. Couldn't find very many threads here for the Atlas so we thought this may be a good time to document what we experience during this adventure to bring the bike back to life. Stay tuned for updates and pics, and please feel free to chime in, we welcome your input and tech support know how.
 
fumanchew said:
We will be posting a running journal if you will as we move forward with bringing this classic back to life. Couldn't find very many threads here for the Atlas
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Who is "we"? Did you see the long, long, long thread that GrandPaul has a few threads below this on putting an Atlas into running shape? It is ongoing and has a lot of things he did both good and bad.
 
Look forward to the pics - every bike restore project is different - the more the merrier.
Can't recall offhand what year that GP's Atlas was, but its possible your earlier one (?) will be different in about every detail....

Perhaps Ben might like to start a resto thread for one of his many projects.
With any luck, these pages may still be around to assist future generations of restorers.
And if we document them now, they won't be scratching their heads over the finer details somewhere down the road.
 
I for one look forward to reading of his adventures. His bike is a 6 volt with a magneto and amal monoblocks. That is just the beginning of the differences he is going to find. The other thing is the head and the cylinder for the 1964 with the cylinder having a lip where the head mounts. I am not sure if the 1964 bike has one or two carbs but the very first ones had only one.
So there ya go, just a few differences and I have never even seen the bike in question.
As to the comments from Mr. Grumpy, do you ever have anything positive to say about any of the posts here? If you have, I really can't recall seeing them
 
Fuman, I would be interested in following the project, more pics the better!
 
I am the original owner of a '63 Atlas. PM me if you have questions on how parts are put together.
 
[quote="Rohan" but its possible your earlier one (?) will be different in about every detail....
Perhaps Ben might like to start a resto thread for one of his many projects.[/quote]


GrandPaul's build was a 66' Atlas, it says right in the title a few lines below this thread. A 64' Atlas is 12V by the way, and in each of it's markets virtually identical to the 66' model except for some carburettor specs.

No, I would not like to put a build thread up here. I ended up putting up my projects and interests up somewhere else on the internet, one web-page per project is enough unless you are especially needy of attention or trying to make money right?

My first-year 650ss and some other info/projects are to be found here if someone wants to look at a early slimline that has a lot of different details from AMC built Nortons :

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 123&type=3
 
Check the fit of the rocker spindles to the head. Later 750 twin heads had thicker bosses to hold the rocker spindles; earlier 750's had skinnier bosses and the rocker spindle bores tended to wallow out.
 
I just finished my 1965 Atlas (over 5 year project). Still fussing with some small details but it runs pretty strong. Changes from stock? Commando distributor with a Boyer, higher output alternator, H4 with a halogen reflector, TLS from an early Commando and I put (2) 930 Amal concentric carbs on it. I plan to use it as my "alternate" daily driver along with my 73 Commando and my 71 T120 so I ride early in the AM (5:00) so good lights and brakes are pretty important. Some time in the future I'll rebuild the magneto and put the mono blocks back on but now I just want to ride it.

Dave
 
I was genuinely interested in the use of the word "we", if a whole committee was going to work on the bike, a shop or a husband and wife team?

As far as having lots of threads on all the same sort of bikes, it can be interesting for those looking to kill time. I don't think it is a big help for the neophyte who needs to find information, it just gives them much more to sort through. I would rather see one thread for each type of Norton that had all the right information in it stated one time, along with good proven modifications and upgrades. As it is someone has to sort through thousands of pages of jibberish here before they might sort out what information is good, what is bad, who has good information and who is not worth listening too at all.
 
beng said:
As far as having lots of threads on all the same sort of bikes, it can be interesting for those looking to kill time. I don't think it is a big help for the neophyte who needs to find information, it just gives them much more to sort through. I would rather see one thread for each type of Norton that had all the right information in it stated one time, along with good proven modifications and upgrades. As it is someone has to sort through thousands of pages of jibberish here before they might sort out what information is good, what is bad, who has good information and who is not worth listening too at all.
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Get writing then, we look forward to the result !
Good Luck, hope you have a few lifetimes to spare !

Roy Bacon has written the first installment, its called "Norton Twin Restoration', its quite a large book,
with basic starter info on most of the twins Nortons made.
To cover them all fully, it could turn into a set of encyclopedias.
And could still never cover everything.

The rest of us would prefer to see one bike per thread ?
That way, there are not conflicting photos of stuff - such that you have to read back through the entire thread to figure out what all that stuff is on about.
 
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