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Hello, all! Name's Will. Currently in Buffalo, New York but have roots elsewhere. I'm new to Norton's - and motorcycles in general - but have spent a lot of time involved in the air-cooled Volkswagen hobby. I recently purchased a 1966 Atlas that had been sitting in a barn for the last 14 years and want to set up a thread to document this winter's work.
The bike hasn't been on the road since 1976 and has not been started since 2002, and currently being in the mood for a winter project I figured why not? Drove out, loaded up the truck, dropped it off at the back shed and have been slowly cleaning and tinkering with it the last couple of weekends.
The bike came to me through a friends family, and the goal is more to preserve the bike and get it road worthy than a full on restoration. I know for certain it needs a new wiring harness, the golden flames of the short helped me figure that out. Otherwise, it seems to be in very good shape for having spent so much time idle. A tank cleaning, carb cleaning, oil change, new plugs, several kicks and it actually fired up. A couple minuted here and there every day and the cobwebs are slowly falling off. Everything needs adjustment and everything needs cleaning, but Buffalo winters are so, so long. Maybe it will be on the road before the last snow melts in June.
Start up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bqodJzJWUY
Anyhow, I plan on updating this thread as the time passes and will certainly have a ton of questions. For now, it's an exciting start.
The bike hasn't been on the road since 1976 and has not been started since 2002, and currently being in the mood for a winter project I figured why not? Drove out, loaded up the truck, dropped it off at the back shed and have been slowly cleaning and tinkering with it the last couple of weekends.
The bike came to me through a friends family, and the goal is more to preserve the bike and get it road worthy than a full on restoration. I know for certain it needs a new wiring harness, the golden flames of the short helped me figure that out. Otherwise, it seems to be in very good shape for having spent so much time idle. A tank cleaning, carb cleaning, oil change, new plugs, several kicks and it actually fired up. A couple minuted here and there every day and the cobwebs are slowly falling off. Everything needs adjustment and everything needs cleaning, but Buffalo winters are so, so long. Maybe it will be on the road before the last snow melts in June.
Start up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bqodJzJWUY
Anyhow, I plan on updating this thread as the time passes and will certainly have a ton of questions. For now, it's an exciting start.