Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Progress report


It was pretty nice this weekend, so I thought was time to take the Triumph off it's stand and get a picture or two of it in the day light and on its wheels. As you can see most of the frame is put back together. I have my buddy Paul working on a front tire for me, but I am still up in the air for a seat and oil tank.
On the motor, I have the timing side and transmission rebuild. I have ordered valves from Kibblewhite Precision Machining Inc, and sometime soon I am going to order some pistons.
Cheers,
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Thursday, May 5, 2011

One step closer to a roller

I finally found all the parts I needed to rebuild the front forks. This might have been the hardest part so far of the rebuild. The original forks that sat outside for 25 years were rusted to nothing. The only thing I could use off of them were the Dust Excluder Sleeve Nut. I have bought 3 set of forks off of ebay and none of them worked. Just a warning people will say anything to sell there stuff on ebay. I finally found a local guy who sold me a 68 triumph front fork and all is good.

I used the internal parts from the 68 forks and bought some new tubes from my Racing Norton's guy. Mike gave me the bottom members and finally we are assembled. I also bought some new handle bars.

next up the front wheel.


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