Stroppy Old Tart, or the story of a Triumph Bonneville

BenHar · Post by **BenHar** » Sun Jan 10, 2021 8:02 pm

Nice saucepans.

Ben

Post by **Hooli** » Wed Jan 13, 2021 5:56 pm

I've now got achey fingers & a kitchen that has the lovely smell of autosol, but it's resulted in some more clean bits. All that's left now is to wash them to get the remains of the autosol & degreaser out of the insides, then I can start assembly.

You can see the state some bits were in from the intake manifolds.

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Post by **Hooli** » Thu Feb 04, 2021 2:12 pm

Well no real progress but the V5 came from the DVLA & she's now registered as historic & MOT exempt. However they've randomly changed her colour to blue, rather odd as all the old V5s show black & as far as I'm aware it's been black for 20 years now.

Let's send it off again & see what they change next shall we?

Post by **paulplom** » Thu Feb 04, 2021 4:05 pm

Surely it's because black is classed as racist?

Post by **Hooli** » Thu Feb 04, 2021 4:09 pm

Bike of colour?

brandersnatch · Post by **brandersnatch** » Thu Feb 04, 2021 5:46 pm

Bike lives matter.

PhilA · Post by **PhilA** » Fri Feb 05, 2021 3:31 am

Hooli wrote: ↑Wed Jan 13, 2021 5:56 pmYou can see the state some bits were in from the intake manifolds.

I just realized that's not correct. Those are unifolds. There's only one pipe going through from one to one.

Maybe solofold. Or just a fold.

Yup

Post by **Hooli** » Sat Feb 06, 2021 1:36 pm

I've opened the box of bits, but as I can't wake up today I'm not going to try and put them together.

I'm tempted to polish the rocker boxes etc before assembly though. I'll obviously be polishing the rods as it works to reduce stress failures.

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Scruffy Bodger · Post by **Scruffy Bodger** » Sat Feb 06, 2021 3:59 pm

Hopefully it's better quality than the stuff that came in the cardboard box in the background.

Post by **Hooli** » Sat Feb 06, 2021 4:05 pm

Scruffy Bodger wrote: ↑Sat Feb 06, 2021 3:59 pm Hopefully it's better quality than the stuff that came in the cardboard box in the background.

I never got the stuff in that box. It turned up in the boot of my old blue Jag from Richardthestag with a few spares n stuff in.

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