Michael

Hello Martin and a big welcome to our humble site. I believe I know you from the German Site and have briefly met you in Belgium in 2014. It is good to have you here.

I am impressed with your collection and modifications of 750 Twins. I have also followed some of you adventures on the German site with envy and respect.

Although we are quiet I…[Read more]

I have finally manged to make contact with Electrex world.

The regulator you require is their RR33 RR33 Regulator/Rectifier. You will probably have noticed there are 7 wires on the combined unit whereas the original units only had 6 wires. Also the plug configurations are different. This does not matter but you will need to modify the…[Read more]

I rang M and P and convinced them that what they were offering was incorrect. They put me onto their supplier ELCTREX WORLD who I also have rung. Unfortunately they only have skeleton staff at the moment and I have not yet been successful in ringing when there is someone who can give me technical help. I will keep trying mate

Is this what you are after?

Buy Regulator/Rectifier

You’ve done a great job and so pleased she runs well for you. Hopefully you will have many many more smiles to enjoy

Now that is a fine looking twin. I am impressed especially when you look at how tacky she was when you started. Well done Cameron

Hopefully you will be able to share some video links of her in action???

KK

Progress maybe slow at the moment as it is for us all. I just wanna see this baby finished and see her run.

Don’t despair mate. Dig in and push forward

KK

Hi AndyMase

The bulbs should be a very easy fix and readily available from any auto parts supplier.

I am not quite sure what you mean with the headlight bolts. I picture would be very useful. The parts required are available and I can supply them if you need me too.

Cheers

KK

I tuned her up properly and balanced the carbs and last job was to fit the new number plate. I took her out on the road for a test drive. OMG she rode awesome. The only issue I had was attention.

The following day I took her for an MOT test. She passed with flying colours but guess what? More attention lol.

I came home and sat outside with a…[Read more]

I stripped the carbs and had them ultrasonically cleaned then reassembled them with new needles etc. All the electrics were fitted and I removed the electronic ignition and went back to points. All that was left now was to fit the tank, seat, side panels and exhaust then the moment of truth. Will she start and will she run. She did both and I had this

Cams were refitted and valves shimmed up and the rocker cover went back on . Starter motor was fitted and quickly followed by the generator, clutch and kickstart covers.

The next job was to lap the valves back in and rebuild the head slapping plenty of new oil on.

Once that was done the barrels and head were refitted

It’s time to sort the engine. First job was drop the sump. The pump gauze was pretty clean. All seemed quite well then . . .

It looked like a piece of piston skirt to me. Both the pistons I removed were intact  but on examination one looked much cleaner than the other. This suggested one of the previous owners had had a problem and just r…[Read more]

I left those to dry and harden for a couple of days and set about cleaning the other parts. The bezel retaining ring is Stainless and cleans up a treat. I picked up a tip for cleaning the glass of using cigar ash. Believe me it does work a treat. The seals although tarnished with rust were in great shape and rcovered well with a soak and cle…[Read more]

I took the top and bottom covers back to bare metal then resprayed them with primer then gloss black. Note the upcycling of the pepsi bottles . . .

With the paint needing at least 6 days curing time I decided to get on with other stuff.

First the clocks. I tried masking and painting but I couldn’t achieve a satisfactory standard and what I did just emphasised the dirty glass.

I decided to split the clocks making it easier to repaint and clean. A jig to hold the clocks is essential

I…[Read more]

My next job was to paint the engine. I am using POR15.

There is not much information out there but it has come highly recommended. It seems very watery in texture but trust it. Also you don’t need much. It needed 2 coats and I only used half of this 1/2 pint tin.

24 hours between the 2 coats and this is the result.

Time for a well earned beer

Will probably be #7 that has failed.

You need #6, #7 and #9

KK