Tag: Replacement Parts

Split Cases?

A while ago, I threatened to split the cases… as the next logical step after taking the gearbox apart, I think? Well, it wasn’t quite as easy as that. That was at least the plan, but it had one slight hitch… I started by taking all three of the screws out that were holding the…


Trial Assembly of -10 Gearbox

Last week I was again at the powder-coater, Marshalls, and asked about a bead blaster…he recommended one not one hundred yards from him, and so I trotted off to take my gearbox-casing, now a hollow shell. He was very friendly and quite interested and seems to do lots of bike bits for people, so I…


Good or Bad Carbs+De-Chrome

No, this is not a lesson in nutrition! Yesterday I had a bit of a play and cleaned up the 276 Carby I got with the bike. Most of it is useable, needs a new slide and loads of other bits, but is looking good after a careful clean. Someone had painted it silver, presumably…


8″ Miller HID-Conversion

Ever wondered what the world looked like at night beyond the yellow glare of the street-lamps? Now’s the time to find out and even for the let’s-keep-everything-original (well, original looking, anyway) buffs, here is a low-profile change that could save your life or someone that you love (no-one else gets to ride the bike, rest…


Paint Preparation

Today has seen much go on in the workshop. but not much that I can actually document, well… not pictorially, anyway! AS time goes on, I suppose I could try out my video-skills and show how I was doing something AS I am doing it…will have to give that a go! I started off doing…


No, I haven’t bought a Honda!

… as was suggested by one of my ‘ardent’ followers of the blog!   No, things have not been very conducive to blogging in the last week, in fact, there has been so much turmoil around the house and around some of the bike parts (or rather their origin and what is going to happen…


Second KSS Tank

Postwar KSS tank Ah! Due to the fact that the bike came with an MSS tank (right shape and date, but definitely ‘wrong’ underneath!) the buyer ‘hapened’ to have a ‘correcter’ tank at his place and sent it to me free of charge! Thanks for that, Robert! A nice post-war KSS tank, in fairly good,…


More Gearbox

More questions and comparisons As I noted yesterday, there are some strange things going on in these two gearboxes… I’ll start with the main-shaft again and the differences in the sleeve-gear and the shafts themselves: The picture above is of the ends of the sleeves at the clutch end, without the shaft in situ, and…


Even More (expensive) Rubbish

Do you still believe in Father Christmas? When I came home today I was greeted by the parcels that had been promised to me. I bought a nearly complete MkII KSS motor on eBay in November, which I paid on the 1st of December. Due to various reasons (for example the seller ‘had family problems’)…


More Bits than Pieces

  Started sorting through the delivery… As I began dis-assembling the package, I became more and more aware that this is just a jumble of bits more than an actual motorcycle…To be honest, I have never paid so much hard cash for a pallet-load of random parts in my life! (Things now are, of course…