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Gee that alternator looks nice.

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More fiddly stuff, yanked the blower off and cut all the studs to the correct length and made a couple of new ones , more bloody wiring , went and bought a new washer bottle and mounted it up and plumbed it in , put the good side plates and rocker cover on , mounted and wired the coil pack etc





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Very neat and tidy Blacky- I'll be quizzing you on that wiring/ battery setup at some stage... did you get it up to Norham the other day?

melly wrote: Mon Feb 20, 2023 5:28 pm Very neat and tidy Blacky- I'll be quizzing you on that wiring/ battery setup at some stage... did you get it up to Northam the other day?

No mate I stayed at home and worked on this old slapper .......

Haven’t done much lately, been away a lot - managed to get a few things done on Friday, still chipping away at the wiring- got the ignition and light switches back in -


Replaced the temperature gauge, the sender wouldn’t fit in the new head, the casting is slightly different and it was hitting it so had to lose the capillary type gauge and go with an electric type - deliberately bought a non matching one to continue the theme …….



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Then sorted out the wiper washer switch, super easy with the kit from Pete Mallaaby on bookface-

Before

After


Also finished off the relay panel wiring but forgot to take a pic


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I with you on the wiring. Hurry up! Tick, tick, tick.....

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Did a bit more wiring last night, had enough of that malarkey so tonight I played boilermonkey
Had to fab up a gearstick surround to seal the floor and brace the hole so off I went -
Decided to make a square frame for the top boot and then make an inner frame to support the rubber boot

Started by cutting the basic shape out - had to make it in 2 pieces because I am nearly out of steel


Then folded it for the top bit




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Then bent the thing into a square - well, a 3 sided square at least …. And glued it together.







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Gave it a bit of a linish to lose the spiders legs and bird poop and it came up alright


Then started on the underneath bit - marked a piece of sheet up , good thing I still have my high school tech drawing kit


Ended up turning that circle into a slightly more footy shaped hole so the boot fits inside the box , cut the thing out and that was as far as I got - took about an hour , only got out to the shed at 8:30



Just need to fit some nutserts for the top boot, trim it to fit in the floor and it’s ready to weld in


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Looking foreword to seeing this beast soon. You aren’t going to make me wait another year are you sir post-a-lot??


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Pot.
Kettle.
Black.


Yes, it hasn’t been touched since whenever the last post was - I have been working away a lot lately and haven’t had any time to work on it. I have this week off and am replacing the roof on our house, don’t want to suffer through another winter of leaking roof syndrome.

Got a little bit more done today, half a day in the shed , made up an engine run panel so I can bolt a carb on it , fit a stock dizzy and do a first fire up to bed the cam in before putting the blower back on and doing battle with the electronics ‍‍‍

Pressed up a bit of tin, gave it a quick coat of jam and wired it up, not fancy but will do the job





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Bought oil, fan belt, radiator hoses , spark plugs etc - got home and the friggin’ plugs don’t fit - this head is a HR era head and the plugs are 14x1.25 thread - the ones I bought are imperial……. Parts shop closed earlier than usual today so that was that
Hopefully fire it up this weekend



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You sure it isn’t a 173 202 head? Just the plug seats look square in that photo.


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