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By Robert Beech |
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A Restoration Story -
SSJ 537... (Part 2) |
JUNE 2002
Spent
the first two weeks
1.
Clearing
myself a space in the garage.
2.
Reading the
Stewart bedside book and the D W Munro manual, to familiarise myself with
the bike.
3.
Visiting the
Sunbeam Owners Fellowship Rally, to inspire me to great things.
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Then where to start, well
a good point seamed to be with the rolling chassis.
So I separated all the chassis parts, and tucked all the engine parts away
for a later day. Then got on with listing what wanted doing that I was
capable of, what I had to get done professionally, and what bits were
missing.
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JULY 2002
All
the none black parts went off with my mate for
spraying, I had picked Ford Polaris as the colour it seemed about the best
match for the Sunbeam poly grey colour. The results are stunning and all
for £50 for a meal for him and his wife, absolute bargain!
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My Tasks |
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Rear drive unit
The worm wheel and gear were in good nick, so after a good clean up it was
reassembled with new oil seals, gaskets, and I upgraded all the nuts to
stainless nylock
Lessons learned...
Std Nylocks are too tall
They clash in the UJ area; the nuts on the bearing housing and rear of the
UJ must be slimed down by about a 1/3rd of the treaded portion.
On the side cover the nylon does not engage, studs are not long enough
again slim down by a 1/3rd
Rear Suspension
No problems here, just a re-chrome and powder coat of the spring covers.
Can’t imagine that many find much wrong here. It is so robust as to be
virtually indestructible.
Lessons learned...
Don’t try to put these assembles back in the fork lugs by hand. Anyone who
can do this must be built like King Kong. Make a simple spring compressor,
with two flat plates with holes in the middle, pass a piece of all thread
through the holes, nut on each end and your away. When you take the
pressure off just slip the plates out carefully, and knock in the stantion.
Get a spare pair of hands to help with the drive side, its heavy, and if
it pulls out of the lugs things shoot every where with some force.
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Front Forks and Yokes
Again in quite good nick so
again new oil seals and new drain plugs (stainless cap heads 2BA)
Lessons learned...
BSF is the predominate tread
on the frame, but the A10 forks are a blend of cycle, UNF, & BA. Keep the
old pins for ID
Read Stewarts book properly.
Fit new oils seals before you try to assemble the whole lot. And before
you have the legs painted. Luckily Touch up has covered my mistakes. They
are a pig to fit, BTW old ones are metal cased, and the replacements are
rubber cased.
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