Rebuilt SII Interceptor won't run smoothly and difficult to start.

As Hitchcock says "I'm a Enfield nut, but not a fan"
They are very much a 1950 motorbike make in 1970.
 
It would depend on condition of the engine and gearbox. If it is intact it is certainly worth it. I like they
way the front mudguard looks sans stays ! ;-)
The petrol tank may be modern Enfield but it has the shape of the domestic original and it may well
be possible to conjure up a decent fit.
 
Onder said:
It would depend on condition of the engine and gearbox. If it is intact it is certainly worth it. I like they
way the front mudguard looks sans stays ! ;-)
The petrol tank may be modern Enfield but it has the shape of the domestic original and it may well
be possible to conjure up a decent fit.
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You are very positivly minded and I will give you your dues. Anything can be done really, it may take an expert in the job, but there it is and if not we can't love just one motorcycle mongrols get a chance too.
 
Onder said:
If we only preserve the Vincents how will we know why they were seen as so good?
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I bought that bike. Have been playing with it just for fun. Has excellent compression, and once I get the wiring sorted will see if/how it runs. The person who owned it passed away and left it to his friend who said he rode it 50 years ago.
It is a '71 and I read that production ceased in 1970. The last ones were assembled in a bunker somewhere in the UK. Any ideas on where best to attach an oil pressure gauge?
 
robertv said:
I bought that bike. Have been playing with it just for fun. Has excellent compression, and once I get the wiring sorted will see if/how it runs. The person who owned it passed away and left it to his friend who said he rode it 50 years ago.
It is a '71 and I read that production ceased in 1970. The last ones were assembled in a bunker somewhere in the UK. Any ideas on where best to attach an oil pressure gauge?
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robertv said:
I bought that bike. Have been playing with it just for fun. Has excellent compression, and once I get the wiring sorted will see if/how it runs. The person who owned it passed away and left it to his friend who said he rode it 50 years ago.
It is a '71 and I read that production ceased in 1970. The last ones were assembled in a bunker somewhere in the UK. Any ideas on where best to attach an oil pressure gauge?
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That was a problem I never solved either, after a re-build it is a must have. Hopefully some of the bright people out there have the solution regardless of how and where.
 
They were all built in the cave at Westwood. The year registered is not the year built. They were done
by June 70.
I took OP gauge off the oil filter house. The later ones have the oil cooler (waste of time and money)
so I bored down through the top nut into the stud and then vented bore of stud out to the filter
chamber. Others simply put in a fitting where the air bleed screw is. My second gauge is off
the exhaust rocker feed by making a fitting that will take two banjos, the original feed and a new
one that goes to a gauge. This is pretty much overkill but I wanted to see just how much OP goes
to the rockers. Answer: very little and for not very long. Rocker feed only occurs when the main OPRV
blows off. Trust me that is a rare event. The OPRV has a TINY hole in it to provide constant flow to
the rockers but it is a very small flow.
 

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