Shaking down an old dog

Heck,

What's it got four wires? Two yellows to the stator and a black to black and a red to red. I've seen them on commercial stuff like boats and they are supposed to be tough.
Oh yeah, I was in Burlingame the other day helping a guy get his Chang ready for the Hiller show the other day.
 
Would that be on Chula Vista? I walk by a place that had two of them under tarps by a motorhome.
 
I think that would be Wayne's place. He imported several a few years back when you had to ship in the parts and assemble them.
Do you know Rudy from several of these pictures?
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The old Norton got to see the ocean today and she is running quite well. No hesitation after she is warmed up, no stalling at lights or leaks. Good clean pulls right up to redline.
I was pleased to find no leaks when she got home. As usual the rule is that something has to happen so my tach started making that low on lube whine and became erratic. That will have to be cured before another trip.
Unlike a Commando there is no real sweet spot with this bike, at certain speeds she will really buzz the pegs. I think my best cruise is around 3,000 RPMs in 4th but the tach was getting wacky so I'm not really sure. It's sure no problem keeping up with traffic with this thing and passing is easy, folks give you a thumbs up on a pass sometimes.
The brakes and clutch now work the way good Commando bits of their era should. It's fairly easy to lock the rear after last winter's service.
The riding position is quite poor and will need work for sure. I got along with the right hand shift today by not pushing the bike so that I go into automatic mode, that may take rethinking next winter also.
The current punch list is only 1 item this summer, the tach. Adjusting the bike to my six inch taller than former riders can be next winter.
 
Sounds like things are coming together.

As for Rudy, I didn't recognize anyone in the photos.
 
On the last couple of runs I've had the float leaking problem reoccur. My thought at this moment is that due to the flat level of my carb mount that the PWKs idle jets do not pick up when the float is adjusted high enough not to leak. This is not a problem I'd expect with a dirt bike carb. Tomorrow I'll see what might work to lower the idle jet pickup.
 
Yup,

That's what happening. Thinking about it more I realized I could lower the jet or raise the overflow. While raising the overflow is easy, lowering the jet would take some work, pull tank, etc. I extended the bowl overflow pickup with shrink wrap tubing after my first try of an ink pen cartridge split after being exposed to the gas. The first test gives me no leakage and good starting. Now I need to do the other bowl and set everything up again. I'll take a picture of the extension for anyone who might need to go the same way.
 
I just started my bike with one kick while wearing flip flops. I can't believe it took me this long to figure this out.
This long brass tube is the overflow pickup. In the second picture I've extended it a quarter inch with shrink wrap. I'll check the shrink wrap next winter to see how it holds up and if needed I'll fit a longer brass tube or extend this with brass.

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Is shrink wrap fuel resistant? I'd stick a bit in a cup of gas and let it sit to test it first before sticking it inside a carb.
 
I've already got a couple pieces soaking in gasoline, in the carbs of course. All joking aside I think it will be fine since I've used shrink wrap in fuel environments before. You never know with the new fuels so I'll look at it later.
 
After the last test run I decided that my back is going to go before anything else. I like the short and nearly straight bars on this bike so I got some for the Norton.
Shaking down an old dog


As usual nothing fits right on and I've got to get the stops adjusted to keep from whacking the tank. I'll have to redo the rear brake pedal to work with these bars also.
 
What have you got there, Cookie? A hooligan Goldwing? Looks interesting; that's what honda actually had in mind when they built the first one...
 
That's a 76 Goldwing with everything heavy off and a Holley carb and glass packs. It did pretty well in the testing before I tore it down for furthur mods. After I'm sure of the engine it gets nitrous.
 
Once again I awaited a replacement part with bated breath to find it does not fit. i ordered one of those Ebay repo tachs so I could at least run the rest of the year. It is 3/8 or so too long to fit a Smiths Commando housing. Was it copied from a Veglia? Just another annoyance.
 
Actually I think Laura is on an oil rig in new Zealand right now. How about Simone?

Shaking down an old dog
 
well, they sure put a smile on my old mug... Thanks Cookie, have a great weekend (I'll be cutting grass, and hopefully, fitting a Taylor head steady) Cheers, Don
 
Now that our little typhoon remnant is over I hope to work on it for a few minutes tonight, good luck with your head steady.
 
The testing period went well so it is time to finish up those overflow tubes. The hardware store had tiny tubing in both alloy and brass. I chose alloy and installed it with JB Weld.

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