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Now winter appears to be behind us, I am able to start my H1b project, I am not in the fortunate position of having a garden shed or garge at my house, so I have to rent a garage in a block a short distance from my home, no light or power so I need the good summer daylight to work down there. not ideal, but there you are.
So today I started.
The newly blasted and painted frame is on my small bike lift ready to go, and the bike is standing behind ready to be stripped of most of the parts, and even though I have most of the parts needed I am aware that there are still a couple of things missing, so as you can see I have a ways to go..

Looking forward to seeing this one progress Kev.

I really like that bike Kev.

Despite what happened with swapped bits I`m sure you`ll make it a goodun.

I hope to get the front end, and motor in on Monday

So today I finished stripping the old frame (not sure what to do with that now, maybe time to weigh it in?) and after that, I fitted my newly painted yoke set, forks, powder coated battery box, rear foot pegs. And then painted the flasher relay bracket, and the front indicator collars. It is actually begining to look like an H1 again now.

Every time I make a little progress with this bike, I always seem to get kicked back and today has been no exception.

As you can see I have made some progress, and I think it looks pretty good for my first attempt at cleaning up a triple...







I have spent the best part of the weekend cleaning and degreasing my new motor, and today I thought I would get the bottom end in the frame, so I pulled the top end off the motor to go for vapour blasting and polishing, only to find that there are no small end bearings in the rods, no clips in the pistons, and the crank all rusty. I should have realised that something was wrong when every screw was loose, including the oil pump.

So are cranks interchangeable across the H1 range, I have a later crank here that came with the bike, will that fit the earlier cases? and are all small end bearings the same? as I will need to find some of those. Oh well, it looks like a full engine build now as well then.







Who knows, I might even get it going this year.