Hello All,
I'm a recycled teenager who has got got his old Triumph back in bits and who's understanding of mechanical engineering begins and ends with setting a mouse trap.
The sorry tale begins in 1985 or 86 when aged 17 I bought a Triumph 3TA with ape hanger handle bars a chrome head light on a stalk of a bloke called Derek from Hemelhempstead in a pub in Glastonbury. A couple of my mates did a nut an bolt (read hammer and chisel) "restoration" on the bike and I brush painted it black and attached a Panther side car to it.
Then it spent time in a cow shed, before I gave it one of the aforementioned machanics when I went to live in London. He managed to fry the whole thing in a shed fire before putting all the charred bits in tea chests, and stored them in a garage for the last fifteen years or so.
I've now got it back and have started my own version of a hammer and chisel restoration on a budget of sweet F.A. So far I have transfoprmed a charred heap of rusty junk in to a cleaner heap of shiney junk, I got the Haynes manual and the older workshop and parts books but I know sweet FA about mechanics. Please bear with me as I will probably be asking a fair few stupid questions on the forum. Here goes.........
The front fork bushes seem to have a lot of play and certainly aren't tight in the stantions, would I be right in thinking they need replacement along with seals?
The threads on the rear wheel drive are in poor order but the rest works. Is there any way I can reuse / repir the unit?
That'll do for now, more to follow as I stumble through the rebuild.
Thanking you in anticipation.
Kind regards
Prof
