DeMyer's Laws - an argument that consists primarily of rambling quotes isn't worth bothering with.
The old man had an S7 briefly...mainly to see if they were as bad as reported. It was. Moved on smartly. He finished up with a 250 BMW he had for years.
oils - when people started serious rallying with Mazda 323 FWD Turbo's they regularly ate the center diff...One particular synthetic, a castrol from memory, let the diff live.
I used 140 gear oil in my sunbeam once, I wouldn't recommend it and I certainly wouldn't use it again. It made my Toasted sandwiches nearly inedible.
No new Sunbeam owners then.
I picked up the internals of a S7 gearbox off eBay.uk as per page one after the seller stripped the clusters from the case to get the postage down
eBay picture.
All new bronze bushes and bearings and it came up quite well.
Was lucky enough to get what is basically a new worm wheel and worm screw form the UK, it had been purchased by the seller in the early 1960's.
The local bearing shop found some NOS RHP bearings as a bonus that were picked up yesterday.
Rockers and rear bush sent to the UK came back with new sintered bronze bushes and new stellite pads with the bush re white metaled to 0.010" undersize.
I read (on the Internet so it must be true) there were some 16000 S7 / S7 Deluxe and S8's built, they must be all on the road because used parts are thin on ground for the most part but did get one new connecting rod and a new kick start quadrant from New Zealand.
Man - I LOVE your work.... Always impressive...
Not much to report, still doing my bit for Australia (8 years away on Oct 17th)
I did pick up another S7 Deluxe (1953) a month or so back, it had been picked up from a deceased estate some 16 years ago and then dry stored in what looked to be some form of aviation container.
Prior to that it had been in an attic so the story goes so may not have been ridden since the 1970's.
Very complete and only the hand grips and headlight glass/reflector missing.
I did also pick up one of these, a AMR300 supercharger which came up nicely after a strip, clean and inspection, maybe something for the 49 S7 deluxe.
Before picture.
Work on that bike had been on hold but should recommence after finding an excellent head (early this month) from the UK for the very reasonable price of AU$212 + post, a wheel also arrived from NZ for NZ$95 + post last week.
I had also been doing a transmission refurb for the 1973 Eldorado and had drilled the engine block so an oil filter pan can be used along with a later front main bearing flange.
SWMBO asks quite often why I don't buy a new bike........ hmmm.
Some pics in the below link.
http://s30.photobucket.com/user/manu...?sort=9&page=1
I don't know about New Zealand but it seems you have to do more and more (or learn how to) yourself on old motorcycles in Australia.
Met a dear old lady in Westport back in '08 who told us she and her hubby had one. Apparently the Police bought a fleet of them, but they couldn't catch the contemporary Triumphs so they sold them off cheap. AFAIK she didn't still have it.
"Statistics are used as a drunk uses lampposts - for support, not illumination."
Garth Johnson from Taradale had one that he fully restored with a sidecar attached.
No sure what happened to it but knowing Garth it's still sitting in his shed.
Cheers
Pete
Arguing with an Engineer is like wrestling a pig in mud.
After a while you realise the pig is enjoying it.
That sounds close. Generally the Transport Dept bought their bikes tax and duty free, used them for a year or two (can't remember exactly but I can ask), and then sold them for exactly what they had paid for them. This was pre GST so there was a lot more tax.
I remember seeing cops on Sunbeams, but rarely, and not for long.
There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one. - Joey Dunlop
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