Cover Pages

Stumbled across this article  a month or 2 ago and realised I hadn't posted it. The T110 still making cover pages ;-)

Its the August 2016 edition of THE CLASSIC MOTORCYCLE MAGAZINE.

Great article to read, an original T110 owner who sold his bike in the 60's and to get it left to him in a will almost 40yrs later.
Great photos of detail and original photos and documentation. Grab a copy if you can.
Here some images:

A visitor

Today I had a visit from a fellow T110 builder from Klerksdorp in South Africa.
I was put in contact with Kelly through his son in Canada who stumbled upon this blog.
It was good to exchange info and compare parts, brackets and mounting points. It is amazing how the parts on these old triumphs are so interchangeable and how over the years you are not always to sure what you are left with is still original.
It was also encouraging to find out Kelly has traced down two other T110s in South Africa which are restored, and he is planning on paying them a visit sometime.
Keep us posted Kelly.
Good meeting you.
:-)

Sand blasted tins

Got a call this morning to collect the sand blasted tins. They cleaned up very nicely can see all the dings, and found a cracked bracket on the oil tank.

Steering head

Quite excited to recieve the steering head set in the post today. Bought it off ebay from Supreme Motorcycles.
I can now see I had quite a few bits missing from my bike. The part is a L.F.Harris part.

Hoping to get a chance to fit it during the end of the year break.

Day 7 - Engine

A small black pipe was added to the inside of the oil release valve.

A new breather pipe had to be cut bent and fitted to the inside cover.

 The badge was put onto the side cover, it has 3 small brass rivets and needed to be tapped in carefully not to damage anything.

New badge "T110"

Insulation tape protection!

Rogers purpose made "badge pin punch"

The rocker boxes needed to be assembled, which proved quite a challenge to get the process correct - almost like a puzzle getting the the sprung washers, washers and pin in the correct sequence. But in the end they looked great.

Another purpose made tool - chamfered interior edge to protect o-ring seal on rocker spindle.

Minor "surgery"

The valves were then installed in the head, the bottom cup were put in then the spring then the top cup washer then a valve spring compressor was used to compress the spring down and the 2 keys were inserted.

The whole way through where ever there are studs the holes were tapped and cleaned to make sure of a good fit for the studs. Studs were fitted with loctite.

The exhaust outlet manifold could then be fitted.

The piston rings were checked to see if the fitted the minimum clearance value which they did.

The oil drain pipe was reinstalled in the crankcase cover, and the filter fitting was checked in relation the the pipe and minor adjustments were made to ensure the right alignment.

The welsh plug was sealed and fitted in the end of the gearbox casing then the re-assembly of the gearbox could continue. 

We had to figure out which gears went were and the positioning of the camplate adjuster, it was quite tricky get the hole bunch of gears back in the box together but eventually worked out. The starter pin had to be rebuilt a bit as it had suffered some abuse in the past.

Day 4 -Engine

The head was blasted more to try and clean it more, switching from bead to sand shot helped, we also tried heat the old gunk with a flame to get rid of it easier, finaly the head was vapour blasted and it came suitably clean. Old valve guides were also pressed out.

Burning the gunk.

Mounting surface sanded - rust forming already.

The engine and gearbox casings were vapour blasted then placed in a hot oven to seal - creating an oxidisation layer. Once removed from the oven and still hot they had the bearings pressed in as well as the brass bushes and timing guide. Some of the camshaft bushes had to be lapped, which Roger made a special tool on his lathe to align the casing and lap the bush - worked very well.

Mounting surfaces sanded

Sanding "stone"

Using my sister-in-laws oven ;-)

Come out a bit HOT!

Bushes going in while still hot.

Note the essential oven mitts.

Bearings going in too.

Bushes being lapped on the lathe.

Two stud holes on the casings had been stripped, so they were bored bigger and a threaded insert was made to get the holes back to original size.

Drilling out the stud hole.

New insert in and new thread cut for the plated stud

Further plating on bolts, studs and nuts was done. An issue was also found with the crank bolts - they are pitted and corroded so new ones will be needed.

Plated bits