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  1. Lost about 1 minute over a week, which is about as new for one of those, certainly pretty great now that it's 75 odd years old. Suits me, Just roll it forwards a minute at church on a sunday
  2. I did upsidedown lawnmower and dog hair transporter wingroad seats with a water blaster and thr carpet shampooer machine, then water blast till water ran clear. Big difference
  3. Try this, it's also got some fitment of you wanted to measure up at a wrwcker https://www.amazon.com/Dorman-300-337-Power-Steering-Pulley/dp/B01M3Q2XGF You can also put part numbers into rockauto. Try this one too 12605677
  4. One of those speedy Honda ones maybe https://www.speedscience.co.nz/products/tegiwa-power-steering-pulley-dc5
  5. https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/toys-models/models/cars-trucks/classic-cars/listing/4569132446 @Indiana_Jones @Thousand Dollar Supercar
  6. Enough of that nonsense (press the sleeve out of a GN and run the piston in that in the standard cylinder to maintain std head) I went and picked up 2 engines tonight. One complete and supposedly running, although backfiring (has a China pod filter on it) and a second junker parts engine. Guy had lots of other parts, but I refused, because putting decent parts on this is a slippery slope to a 100hrs paintjob
  7. I think actually something like an lt185 has 1cm less cylinder height as well. I forget if it uses a Dr200 piston tho which has a bigger pin. But no, I'm not doing that, I just happened to have that sitting on the shelf
  8. You can fit a gn125 cylinder with some slotting of the bolt holes apparently. (that's actually an an125 cylinder but it's almost the same) looks like there's enough meat to do that. 2 on the right are pretty close Is about 1cm taller
  9. The aux tank is the main reason I took it, but I might keep it for my other bikes Have original carb and new carb. Original is probably fine, it didn't look too bad Hone - nah its fucked, cylinder is all pitted. What I think happened is someone got it not running, gave it a hone and new piston, despite the bore being stuffed, and maybe it ran for a minute or two before the rust fell out of the pits and it stopped forever. I wouldn't trust my cousins recollection of it running Possibly can take it out to 1mm or 1.25, will see, aliexpress cylinders don't look to be correct. Same pin size as a GN125 tho...
  10. Looks like a fairly low hr 0.50 over piston in there too, but intake is scored. Rtv gaskets Timing was way out I think it had a rebuild not that long ago I might pull a side cover and look down the cylinder hole and see how I feel about the bottom end. Cam has some scratches on the edge of both the lobes, which may be normal as thrybare right on the edge and not where the rockers rub. At this stage I would like another 90 engine for it, possibly just a good top end. Maybe some front and rear shocks. I think there must be these components floating around after lifan, hard tail, and disc front end swaps?
  11. I don't really want a lifan But also this
  12. Armed with a stripped down loom, I sprayed some petrol in the carb And nothing Cleaned the points, and now getting spark. Not amazing spark, but it's there. Got it to chuff on a couple of kicks, but that's about it. I will next test the coil, condenser, clean out the carb and probably do a leak down test, but it's promising at least. If the above checks out, I will make up a new loom, I have a feeling the coil might have gotten a bit too warm in it's little oven space
  13. Got this wee honey running within seconds over the last 3 days after a slight adjustment on the timing. What a joy. There's no way to adjust the seconds on something like this. Some watches you can "hack" and move the second hand back or wind the crown in a certain way and it pauses the hand. But with this you just set as close as possible, within a minute was about all that was expected apparently. Even the railroad grade pocket watches don't have that feature, apparently a second stopwatch was sometimes used for that. Higher grade pilots watches have the hacking button, but they everyman just lived with it
  14. This has been sitting out in the way for the last year or so, so I'm keen to have that not be. Today I removed anything too melted to use. Pulled the loom and it's currently in my ultrasonic cleaner getting a hot wash. Most of the front is melted through, so I'm expecting to remake it. On that note, I'm going to get rid of everything except for the ign circuit, headlamp, and a tail marker light. The switches are partially melted, so this makes sense to me. It's missing the rear indicators and the front lenses melted off. Speedo melted, glass shattered, and the cable is broken. So delete that too. My plan is a stripped down, mostly stock bodied trail/hunting bike (I. E what this originally was made for I guess) Something like these for inspiration
  15. Luckily the aux tank and hose is still in good cond The shocks front and rear, well.... Do they actually have any fluid in them? I think the fronts did, as there's black smoo all down them.
  16. And the backend is a little crisp
  17. Some digging indicates it's a 1976 model TRAIL 50 Which is great because BEING A TRAIL 50 makes it easy to go on small bike rides The front all melted off
  18. My cousin did some wheeling and dealing and brought this home one day. In exchange for taking away some Morris minor parts, this was thrown on top to keep them from blowing off the trailer. It's all there, I even have the bits that melted off into puddles on the ground. Story is the barn burnt down, this was in thr shed next to the barn, so although it got pretty hot, it wasn't ever on fire itself. Cousin put a new carb on for some reason, and got it going, it went up the tanker track, made a bang, and didn't run since I dunno yet if there's any plastic gears in the engine, but it kicks over and all the compression shoots out the exhaust flange Probably this mess has something to do with that
  19. I remember seeing them get put on a new beetle for thr gambler 500 and they bent in half on the first dune they jumped on the test deive Probably not real world conditions mind you
  20. tortron

    Simon

    The river bank next to old mechanics shops is always full of a mix of treasures
  21. You will find them come up for a few quid from time to time on Ebay, theres some "speculators" that know what they have (and hope you don't)
  22. I would probably keep my eye out for a smiths everest (what sir Ed used). A higher jewel count one will have less wear anyways. These pin pallet movements are known to be loud because each tick and tick is metal on metal lol
  23. Yeah about that Turns out the crystal is slightly undersized and those marks are remains of the smoo that was holding it in. Most of it should clean off and I will reglue that dial. I have some new ones that don't fit, they want the edge reprofiled. (same with my other watches)
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