Stripping the Frame of My Barn Find Triumph T140 Bonneville Ready for Painting | 07 скачать в хорошем качестве

Stripping the Frame of My Barn Find Triumph T140 Bonneville Ready for Painting | 07

Stripping the Frame of My Barn Find Triumph T140 Bonneville Ready for Painting | 07 In this episode having removed the engine and gearbox from my 1975 Triumph Bonneville T140V I am now stripping everything off the rolling chassis. Here are some of the tools I am going to be using for this bike: Imperial Combination Spanner Set: https://ebay.us/gYz85M Imperial 1/2inch Socket set: https://ebay.us/jylH05 Imperial Allen Hex Bit Sockets: https://ebay.us/iFV0OQ I would really like to inspect the frame and paint it before the start of the really bad weather in the Autumn. So before I do that I want to get most of the things stripped off the frame, such as mudguards, wiring , clocks etc. so that I can get it outside and give it a good pressure wash. Although I have already washed the bike after having messed about making it look more like the barn find that it is, there is still a lot of dirt and grease in places that will be uncovered as I strip it. The Triumph T140V is a pretty simple bike, designed at a time when humans used to do it rather than machines. This does make it reasonably easy to strip. In the past with this kind of bike it was rusted fasteners that caused most of the problems. You end up breaking bolts, or with screws where the head just rounds off. However with this bike, even though there is rust, it hasn’t been too much of a problem. When you strip the parts of one of these, it quickly becomes apparent that manufacturing technology was pretty simple. Most of the nuts and bolts are from a limited range. But there are some outliers, which seem odd. The sizes seem to be from a different range than the UNF UNC that most of them are. Maybe it was what the suppliers used and Triumph just had to accept that they would just have to adopt them. Over the years Triumph moved from the older British Whitworth nuts and bolts, through the more modern UNC and UNF, but not all at once, so stripping an old bike can be quite an adventure for your tool kit. And don’t think that you can put the metric away, because you will find some need mm size spanners to get a good fit. Once I had most of the parts removed I noticed that the covered parts were still very dirty. I wonder if the whole bike had originally been like that before being cleaned and offered for sale. I was most surprised at the muck in the air cleaner area. But looking at the inlet tracts, I don’t think that the engine had been run with them being so dirty. I was also a bit surprised at how greasy and oily the bottom of the frame was. Obviously the engine had been leaking a lot of oil at some time for it to get like that. I was a little surprised that when the work had been done on the engine that it hadn’t been given a more thorough cleaning. I didn’t find any real horror stories though, although a lot of the parts I removed are not going to be reused, they weren’t in terrible condition. There does seem to be a lot of this type of part for sale online, so there must be a lot of people just selling old components on, rather than restoring them. Eventually, original bikes will become a rarity, and I suspect that the value of unmolested ones will rise. I also found some interesting things out about the pistons when I looked at them whilst giving them a quick clean. In the factories they measured the barrels and pistons separately and put the ones that were acceptable in two grades, H and L, this just meant that barrels and pistons of the same grade would work together. And in the factory they would just match them up and wouldn’t remeasure them Interestingly I subsequently discover that the pistons have an H on them, I can’t get the head off to see if the barrels have the H stamp. But this is really interesting, I will have to explore it further in a future video. Next I must get on with painting the frame. For more helpful how-to guides and restoration project logs, visit our blog: https://www.spannerrash.com/ As an Amazon Associate, Ebay Partner and Awin Affiliate, we earn a small commission from qualifying purchases. Some of our links are affiliate links, and if you decide to purchase things through them, we earn a small commission. It costs you nothing but helps us to keep the content coming. Thanks for your support!