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- Mon May 27, 2019 4:06 pm
- Forum: technical interest and new ideas
- Topic: Coils
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5765
Re: Coils
IP2's never had Lucas coils as they were all originally CDI ignition. Lucas coils came in with the Classic. I believe genuine Lucas coils haven't been made for a long time, although you can buy replica coils in Lucas-style packaging, but possibly made somewhere in the East. You can buy good quality ...
- Sat May 25, 2019 10:32 am
- Forum: technical interest and new ideas
- Topic: Capacitor wiring
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4036
Re: Capacitor wiring
'Morning, You're talking about the big capacitor by the battery? If so, it's nothing to do with the ignition system but was fitted to IP2 machines with police equipment to smooth out voltage fluctuations as, say, the air horns compressor was switched on. That sudden voltage drop was alleged to affec...
- Thu May 23, 2019 4:53 pm
- Forum: General discussion (eveything else)
- Topic: Steering Lock
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5474
Re: Steering Lock
Mick,
Turn the key, clockwise I think, and push it in whilst wiggling the bars on full left lock.
After the lock has engaged with a slot in the steering stem, remove the key.
To unlock, insert the key and turn anti-clockwise, allowing the spring to push the lock body out again.
R.
Turn the key, clockwise I think, and push it in whilst wiggling the bars on full left lock.
After the lock has engaged with a slot in the steering stem, remove the key.
To unlock, insert the key and turn anti-clockwise, allowing the spring to push the lock body out again.
R.
- Wed May 22, 2019 8:17 am
- Forum: for sale and wanted
- Topic: Norton Interpol 2 on Ebay now !
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6500
Re: Norton Interpol 2 on Ebay now !
Did I miss that one, as I don't see it today - just a fairly standard IP2 at Pontefract?Interpol2471 wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2019 11:18 pm Did it sell ?
There is another on eBay now but that is a super rare IP2 1 of only 100 ever made with yamaha forks
I presume it's 1010, on the market yet again.
R.
- Fri May 17, 2019 7:48 pm
- Forum: technical interest and new ideas
- Topic: How do I tell if mine is twin or single rotor idle
- Replies: 14
- Views: 13463
Re: How do I tell if mine is twin or single rotor idle
Hi Zed,
They were made by S&B, direct copies of K&N at half the price.
I have no record of the part numbers though.
R.
They were made by S&B, direct copies of K&N at half the price.
I have no record of the part numbers though.
R.
- Wed May 15, 2019 1:28 pm
- Forum: technical interest and new ideas
- Topic: How do I tell if mine is twin or single rotor idle
- Replies: 14
- Views: 13463
Re: How do I tell if mine is twin or single rotor idle
Yer 'tis, alongside the fan switch and above the sender for the temperature gauge.
- Tue May 14, 2019 4:13 pm
- Forum: technical interest and new ideas
- Topic: How do I tell if mine is twin or single rotor idle
- Replies: 14
- Views: 13463
Re: How do I tell if mine is twin or single rotor idle
Pete, Without the retard box, it will run perfectly OK at engine speeds over about 1200 rpm, but will not idle smoothly below that. For general road riding, that's not a problem, but if you spend much of your time creeping along in traffic, you may find the engine temperature starts to rise. You may...
- Tue May 14, 2019 12:45 pm
- Forum: technical interest and new ideas
- Topic: How do I tell if mine is twin or single rotor idle
- Replies: 14
- Views: 13463
Re: How do I tell if mine is twin or single rotor idle
Pete, Before paying out for a new retard box, I suggest you first see if it runs on the Sparkrite. If not, then the MiniMagneto system is the one to go for. It uses the same trigger, but needs conventional Lucas-type ignition coils in place of the original CDI ones. I don't think AN have any thermoc...
- Tue May 14, 2019 8:51 am
- Forum: technical interest and new ideas
- Topic: How do I tell if mine is twin or single rotor idle
- Replies: 14
- Views: 13463
Re: How do I tell if mine is twin or single rotor idle
Hi Pete, Yours is almost certainly twin rotor idle as most of the singles were factory-converted to twin. That you have a temperature switch on the r/h housing is confirmation as that wasn't fitted to singles. The blanked-off pipes are main bearing oil scavenge connections that were discarded on lat...
- Mon Jan 14, 2019 9:53 am
- Forum: technical interest and new ideas
- Topic: Non runner
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5473
Re: Non runner
An ex-West Midlands bike, B950***, originally based at Coventry. Engine rebuild at 2k, engine/gearbox at 12k, engine rebuild at 24k, nothing else in the Shenstone service records. It may subsequently have had a service exchange engine fitted, stamped 'SX----' and not recorded in the factory records....
- Sun Jan 13, 2019 11:55 pm
- Forum: technical interest and new ideas
- Topic: Non runner
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5473
Re: Non runner
Hi,
If you can tell me the frame number, I can see from my factory and personal records if there's any history for it.
R.
If you can tell me the frame number, I can see from my factory and personal records if there's any history for it.
R.
- Sat Dec 01, 2018 10:10 am
- Forum: technical interest and new ideas
- Topic: sealant
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3316
Re: sealant
Terry, For the rotor housing joint faces, use a thin smear of Wellseal. Stationary gear O-rings, use high temp RTV, Loctite 5368 or similar. All other joint faces, use 5368 or similar. Both eccentric shaft nuts; Loctite 270, 150 lb.ft. Clutch nut; 270, 100lb.ft. Orange RTV is almost as bad as the Re...
- Fri Nov 30, 2018 8:09 pm
- Forum: login and say hello!
- Topic: Removing old engine coating from IP2 housings
- Replies: 6
- Views: 15376
Re: Removing old engine coating from IP2 housings
"A picture's worth a thousand words....." Fear not -that's normal. It's just discoloration by the pre-treatment and plating fluids. The joint face shows clean aluminium as it was ground to size after the plating process was completed. All other machined faces are completed before plating a...
- Fri Nov 30, 2018 3:01 pm
- Forum: login and say hello!
- Topic: Removing old engine coating from IP2 housings
- Replies: 6
- Views: 15376
Re: Removing old engine coating from IP2 housings
How about a photo?
Depending on the age of your IP2, the coating was probably done by BAJ Coatings (now defunct) at Weston super Mare. One of their chemical dips left a dark grey finish to the un-machined areas.
R.
Depending on the age of your IP2, the coating was probably done by BAJ Coatings (now defunct) at Weston super Mare. One of their chemical dips left a dark grey finish to the un-machined areas.
R.
- Fri Nov 30, 2018 9:35 am
- Forum: login and say hello!
- Topic: Removing old engine coating from IP2 housings
- Replies: 6
- Views: 15376
Re: Removing old engine coating from IP2 housings
Hi, Welcome to the forum. Are you sure the surface you're seeing isn't the original silver powder coating that's gone hard and yellow with age? Try scratching the side of an outside fin to see if that's so. Usually, industrial strippers such as Thyssen Krupp in Tamworth get down to bare metal, no pr...
- Thu Nov 29, 2018 10:12 am
- Forum: technical interest and new ideas
- Topic: F1 Sport seat unit
- Replies: 6
- Views: 16388
Re: F1 Sport seat unit
Hi Terry, The pad is that size 'cos it's a close replica of those fitted to the JPS race bikes of the time. Other comments about it were along the lines of "Make it uncomfortable so the rider goes faster to get to the end of the race first". Seemed to work anyway! For one of the Rugeley tw...
- Thu Nov 22, 2018 9:39 pm
- Forum: technical interest and new ideas
- Topic: Commander colours
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11747
Re: Commander colours
Tony,
Lookin' good!
Thirty years old design and still a modern touring bike.
R.
Lookin' good!
Thirty years old design and still a modern touring bike.
R.
- Thu Nov 22, 2018 10:46 am
- Forum: technical interest and new ideas
- Topic: Commander colours
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11747
Re: Commander colours
Terry, To the best of my knowledge, all of the non-Grey colours were not specific to any make/model of other vehicle. Over the production period, several different paint shops were used so it's quite possible that that one's Candy Red was not quite the same as another's. For a non-rotary project, I ...
- Wed Nov 21, 2018 9:30 pm
- Forum: technical interest and new ideas
- Topic: interpol timing marks
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3152
Re: interpol timing marks
Sorry, there are none! But, the vertical axis of the engine is the line between eccentric shaft and the bottom stud. TDC is when the flywheel key is at either 9 o'clock to that line for the l/h rotor or 3 o'clock for the other. Full advance timing, although not critical, is alleged to be at 18 BTDC,...
- Wed Nov 21, 2018 10:04 am
- Forum: technical interest and new ideas
- Topic: Commander colours
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11747
Re: Commander colours
Terry, Whilst Jaguar Dorchester Grey was the standard colour, there were quite a few that were painted other colours and about six that were polished white self-colour mouldings like the police machines. The Candy Red ones tended to fade to a gold colour in strong sunlight, but the ones in metallic ...
- Sat Nov 17, 2018 9:29 am
- Forum: General discussion (eveything else)
- Topic: Classic up for Auction
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8668
Re: Classic up for Auction
You may be thinking of the prototype numbered PP001 which was used, amongst other things, the brochure photos.
It had a slab-sided tank and a very thin seat.
Now in a rotary enthusiast's private collection in Germany.
R
It had a slab-sided tank and a very thin seat.
Now in a rotary enthusiast's private collection in Germany.
R
- Thu Nov 15, 2018 10:22 am
- Forum: General discussion (eveything else)
- Topic: Classic up for Auction
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8668
Re: Classic up for Auction
There are two air-cooled Norton rotaries in the Mecum catalogue. One, as above, is a converted IP2 described as a 'Classic' but bearing little resemblance to a genuine Norton Classic. Badly done too. But, there is also, according to the description as there's no photograph, genuine Classic LE001. Th...
- Tue Nov 06, 2018 12:52 pm
- Forum: technical interest and new ideas
- Topic: spark plug caps
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8822
Re: spark plug caps
With the 10 ohm caps, you can then use copper cored HT lead instead of the usual resistive cable.
R.
R.
- Mon Nov 05, 2018 8:08 pm
- Forum: technical interest and new ideas
- Topic: spark plug caps
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8822
Re: spark plug caps
Following the man-who-knows (Julian Kemp), I bought a pair of 10 ohm straight caps from France via Ebay.
Reference is NGK SD10F, still available from France at £4.95 each.
R.
Reference is NGK SD10F, still available from France at £4.95 each.
R.
- Thu Oct 25, 2018 1:04 pm
- Forum: technical interest and new ideas
- Topic: clutch plates
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3783
Re: clutch plates
Tch, tch! Bronze plate first and the last plate against the alloy pressure plate should be steel.
R.
R.
- Wed Oct 24, 2018 7:00 am
- Forum: technical interest and new ideas
- Topic: Woodruff Key
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7958
Re: Woodruff Key
There are two popular types of oil seal, known as R21 and R23. R21 is the standard type of seal, single sealing lip with a garter spring on the inner oily side. R23 is an option that has the sealing lip as above and also has a second wiper lip on the other dry, or outer, side. The purpose of the sec...
- Tue Oct 23, 2018 8:40 am
- Forum: technical interest and new ideas
- Topic: Woodruff Key
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7958
Re: Woodruff Key
John,
The spring always faces the more oily side, in this case towards the mainshaft bearing.
Your original seal would have had a spring, perhaps it became dislodged and lost when removing the seal from the gearbox plate.
R.
The spring always faces the more oily side, in this case towards the mainshaft bearing.
Your original seal would have had a spring, perhaps it became dislodged and lost when removing the seal from the gearbox plate.
R.
- Mon Oct 22, 2018 7:28 pm
- Forum: technical interest and new ideas
- Topic: Woodruff Key
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7958
Re: Woodruff Key
John,
If the key is loose, smack the radiused edge with a hammer (gently) to deform it so that it's tight in the groove.
Keyway anywhere between 9 and 12 o'clock makes it easier to watch on assembly.
Patience is a virtue!
R.
If the key is loose, smack the radiused edge with a hammer (gently) to deform it so that it's tight in the groove.
Keyway anywhere between 9 and 12 o'clock makes it easier to watch on assembly.
Patience is a virtue!
R.
- Fri Oct 19, 2018 8:38 am
- Forum: technical interest and new ideas
- Topic: Gasket or not?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 13064
Re: Gasket or not?
Now....if you could just recommend a fix for the rattling front forks....... cry Mick. Mick, As a Saab dealer once said to me about a noisy gearbox, "Yes Sir, they all do that" Doug Hele came up with a fix using shims to reduce movement of the damper piston and reduce the rattle. AN may s...
- Thu Oct 18, 2018 10:50 pm
- Forum: technical interest and new ideas
- Topic: Gasket or not?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 13064
Re: Gasket or not?
There's never been a gasket there, so your sealant of choice.
ThreeBond, aka Yamabond, or RTV silicone works for me.
There's an O-ring where the elbows join to the frame; a smear of RTV there doesn't come amiss.
R.
ThreeBond, aka Yamabond, or RTV silicone works for me.
There's an O-ring where the elbows join to the frame; a smear of RTV there doesn't come amiss.
R.