Hi to all,
Looking at this forum for a while, I finally was lucky enough to be able to bring back to Europe, in France, a nicely rebuilt 850 MKIIa. Most of the time, I prefer to buy a wreck, or the cheapest one, and have the pleasure to rebuild it. But this time, like I had no spare UK and US screws, bolts, dies or taps or even wrenches, I taught it might be wiser, instead of jumping on the first dirty one, to wait and give a little more money to the guy who would have spent money and TIME rebuilding one.
Finally, this is what I got, and it brings me real happy. Some of you might have seen it on CL.
So now it's here in my place, but I wasn't able to start it yet, for two reasons. When I opened the petcock I saw much too much stuff in the hose, and also the kick was rubbing the exhaust and it wasn't nice to my ears. By the way like I still don't have my license plate so I began to do my first Norton tool and decided to take the carbs off. Because it looks like they didn't have that much care, seals were leaking, gas was stinking and one exhaust header looks like it never was heated. So carbs or electric, no?
And I begin to discover and enjoy all the poetry of the non metric threads, beginning with the need to do my second Norton tool. The two ext. allen screws of the manifold had the same thread but not the same head :roll:
Was happy it was not a fine thread for those ones...
And then, under the carbs, to take the fuel line off, what is the wench size between 1/2" and 9/16". On one screw I was able to put a 13mm wrench, but not on the other.
Can somebody tell me if this little rubber part is at the right place? Is it complete? And what's his job?
Looks like it's time for me to change my glasses :roll:
Here are some pictures of the sliders. Are they already completely worn? Do they look they have the same mileage than the odometer, around 12'000 miles? Like I would stay classic at the moment, what's the best choice now, buy some new brass chromed ones, have those ones polished and anodised?
Thanks for your help.
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Looking at this forum for a while, I finally was lucky enough to be able to bring back to Europe, in France, a nicely rebuilt 850 MKIIa. Most of the time, I prefer to buy a wreck, or the cheapest one, and have the pleasure to rebuild it. But this time, like I had no spare UK and US screws, bolts, dies or taps or even wrenches, I taught it might be wiser, instead of jumping on the first dirty one, to wait and give a little more money to the guy who would have spent money and TIME rebuilding one.
Finally, this is what I got, and it brings me real happy. Some of you might have seen it on CL.
So now it's here in my place, but I wasn't able to start it yet, for two reasons. When I opened the petcock I saw much too much stuff in the hose, and also the kick was rubbing the exhaust and it wasn't nice to my ears. By the way like I still don't have my license plate so I began to do my first Norton tool and decided to take the carbs off. Because it looks like they didn't have that much care, seals were leaking, gas was stinking and one exhaust header looks like it never was heated. So carbs or electric, no?
And I begin to discover and enjoy all the poetry of the non metric threads, beginning with the need to do my second Norton tool. The two ext. allen screws of the manifold had the same thread but not the same head :roll:
Was happy it was not a fine thread for those ones...
And then, under the carbs, to take the fuel line off, what is the wench size between 1/2" and 9/16". On one screw I was able to put a 13mm wrench, but not on the other.
Can somebody tell me if this little rubber part is at the right place? Is it complete? And what's his job?
Looks like it's time for me to change my glasses :roll:
Here are some pictures of the sliders. Are they already completely worn? Do they look they have the same mileage than the odometer, around 12'000 miles? Like I would stay classic at the moment, what's the best choice now, buy some new brass chromed ones, have those ones polished and anodised?
Thanks for your help.
.
.
.