Kettle Clinic

Good progress Alan. Baz will have it sorted. You should be on the road before the summer is out.

H

Hmmm. Hopefully that'll be THIS summer.
I can't do more than one without a 550.
Not that one anyway.......

I really take my hat off to you guys with multiple bikes I don't know how you manage to ride them let alone maintain them as well? I only have two and struggle to keep them both happy

Well, onwards and unfortunately downwards.
Definitely a 'Oh BUGGER' when I took the head off and looked down the right side pot. Wonder whatever could have caused that? Shouldn't there be summat else in there? Like a clip?

Looks like a scrounge in the spares boxes. I'm sure I have a good Nikasil piston and ringset, but the barrel's another matter.
Mebbe, just mebbe........

Failing that, has anyone got a good Nikasil right cylinder they want rid of?

Ouch,bloody big ouch!!,

Baz may have one. When he did my engine rebuild he had a few spare nikasil barrels. I had a NOS RH barrel which Baz used on my engine, so he will more than likely have my old one.

Paul H

I have just spoken to a very nice man who lives near Canterbury, and he has one. So I have just ordered a set of scales for cocaine laboratory work so that I can match weigh the pistons and gudgeon pins.

That’s wot you get fer running it on re-cycled chip fat you tight bugger

The saga continues!!

Ready with the patented lifter outer harness attached! And off to Baz's today for the next stage, which was - split cases and empty the bits out! Empty! And crankshaft. As I thought, the right end seal was u/s, but so was the bearing - and all the other crank bearings 'just' - and the 4 main gearbox bearings too, possibly due to the mileage when I got the bike - plus another (about 3000 mainly high revving) pic taken after a fair run from Creg ny Barr at 104.6mph, 18410 rpm and nearly 5 to 6 (time) - although the tacho may be slightly ambitious!!
So the next episode will be after the crank is repaired and a spare gearbox is fitted with good bearings.
Nowt straightforward is there?

Had to 'nip' down to Baz's with Keith to pick up his happier 550 and drop off another 550 engine/gearbox to the (yet to be made happy' ) A engine.
Keith gorrit hooam and he nearly wazzed hessen about the difference but was happy about the end result. Was worth the £64.53 pence it cost him ....ish....I can't understand it was so cheap.
Whistle see about the A update as summat happens......
The wallet moths are trying to recover........