Hooli's 14 Mk2...

[Hooli]

Oh yeah & the new bars I ordered last Monday on 48hr delivery still aren't here! I might order elsewhere & have a shouting match with lying idiots on ebay.

[Hooli]

Update on that, I have ordered elsewhere. Sick of lying idiots selling online, they're trying to tell me that Royal Mail 48hr delivery doesn't update the tracking until it's delivered. Odd that as it normally says 'at hub' etc etc, they must think I'm stupid.

[Mr Gee]

Like the look of those cans now, they're fitted. 

Certainly look the part. 

[Hooli]

Like the look of those cans now, they're fitted. 

Certainly look the part. 

From experience of following a 14 with the the same make fitted. They'll sound the part too  Later this week I should be able to run it & hear it for the first time baffle free.

[grog]

Lookin good Hooli👏👍Shiny fin edges on menu ?

[Hooli]

Lookin good Hooli👏👍Shiny fin edges on menu ?

Yup, along with removing the black paint on the clocks & headlight bowl. Might strip the yokes back to the correct colour too as the paint is falling off in places. I'll decide when I drop the front end off to check it over, grease steering bearings, rebuild the brakes so I can trust them etc.

Oh & very tempted to slap paint stripper over the TBs where they got badly painted black too, the only thing painted black I think I'll leave is the starter motor.

[grog]

All good plans, why they sprayed black all over 🤷🏼🤷🏼 Frogwits I guess.

[Hooli]

All good plans, why they sprayed black all over 🤷🏼🤷🏼 Frogwits I guess.

Even worse, it's brush painted! Looks awful from under 10ft away. I'm not going to try & clean it off the rear springs though, without stripping them down I couldn't get it all & it'd look worse.

Oh & even the risers are done badly, I'm still thinking about that as it's got a black top clamp so not sure stripping them is the answer.

[grog]

Pull those black crap bits, paint stripper. Take you time but end result worth it. IMO. The old bite the bullet.

[Hooli]

Well today's progress report says "don't listen to grog" 

I've got the front end apart & spent half the day with paint stripper to find out that the chrome on the clocks & headlight rim is ruined. It's been rough sanded for the paint to key too, probably the job he'd done the best despite the finish it ended up with. The headlight & rim off my other 14 is fine, so I stripped that too & it's come up better so I'll probably fit that as it's got a LED in already (& isn't a RHD headlight) I still need to do more stripping as various thick bits of paint remain, but I'd had enough as I woke up with a stinking snotty cold & sore throat today. Why does that always happen when you're off work?
Once I've got the clocks clean, I'll have to repaint them & hopefully do a better job than had been done before. Paint stripper damages the clear plastic over the clocks, not sure what I'm going to do there yet. I might try & polish it off carefully. I think I've seen somewhere you can get those out with heat & a lot of care? if so I might nick the ones out of my original 14 to fit as that needs all new clock cases anyway. I think I've still got the original cases off that somewhere with damaged chrome so the other option is to paint those...

Also found out it needs fork seals the LH one is leaking, lucky I've got a pair and oil in stock really. Steering bearings look to have been replaced so will just get regreased & adjusted properly, they were a bit too loose when I took it apart. Mind you the front axle & pinch bolts where loose too, the calipers bolts were barely nipped up & three sparkplugs came lose with two fingers on the extension rod so no wonder the idle was a little rough on the day I collected it. The comedy wiring for the indicators is a delight too, joined with scotchlocks but thankfully to the original leads so the loom isn't affected (the rears are the same but as the tail is coming off for cleaning I'll fix those then). There was some random power lead badly wired to a horn & broken years ago so that's come off & been tidied up.

Ages ago someone (Simon? made musical instruments & had a R/B) sent me a Pairs removal kit, so I've fitted that. Not being very trusting of the ali plates sealing to the cam cover I made up some blank plates to replace the reed valves & fitted those using the original seals underneath. The vacuum hoses are still supple & feel fine so have been left.

I think that's about it, so pictures...

Starting with before so you can see how good the painting was








Mid way through the day with bits spread everywhere




The blanking plates for the pairs

[Hooli]

As I ran out of allowed attachments I shall carry on

Pairs kit fitted, note the usual half a job where only the easy to get too cam cover bolts got replaced with ugly shiny ones.



The wiring to the horn soldered up heat shrink & wrapped back into the original loom casing



Some bad pics of how far the paint is stripped, I'd forgot to take these till I put everything away & didn't have the energy to take it all outside again.

[Hooli]

Anyone think a chrome headlight & black clocks will work? as I could use the bowl off my old 14 too as the one on this is scratched from keying it for paint.

That's the way I'm thinking of going currently.

[KiwiCol]

how about some new clock cases from Ali Express (for both) a quick look shows them avail for $40NZD which is about £12-£15 each.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005010750245731.html?src=google&pdp_npi=4%40dis!NZD!74.76!40.04!!!!!%40!12000053388967383!ppc!!!&src=google&albch=shopping&acnt=971-003-6642&isdl=y&slnk=&plac=&mtctp=&albbt=Google_7_shopping&aff_platform=google&aff_short_key=UneMJZVf&gclsrc=aw.ds&&albagn=888888&&ds_e_adid=770288429175&ds_e_matchtype=search&ds_e_device=c&ds_e_network=g&ds_e_product_group_id=297546631617&ds_e_product_id=en1005010750245731&ds_e_product_merchant_id=5520179106&ds_e_product_country=ZZ&ds_e_product_language=en&ds_e_product_channel=online&ds_e_product_store_id=&ds_url_v=2&albcp=22921330774&albag=181072663861&isSmbAutoCall=false&needSmbHouyi=false&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22921330774&gbraid=0AAAAA_AVUydol8GpH6S0k30bE_g8UP-IC&gclid=Cj0KCQjw4a3OBhCHARIsAChaqJPkHkmMnT6K1zxewounaptPXjKBpcwaIapUE5rPXrrW4v2CMxh1O6kaAsgTEALw_wcB

[KiwiCol]

I see Just Bandits have Clock Kits for £56, but the pic doesn't say or show what the clock kit includes.

[Hooli]

how about some new clock cases from Ali Express (for both) a quick look shows them avail for $40NZD which is about £12-£15 each.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005010750245731.html?src=google&pdp_npi=4%40dis!NZD!74.76!40.04!!!!!%40!12000053388967383!ppc!!!&src=google&albch=shopping&acnt=971-003-6642&isdl=y&slnk=&plac=&mtctp=&albbt=Google_7_shopping&aff_platform=google&aff_short_key=UneMJZVf&gclsrc=aw.ds&&albagn=888888&&ds_e_adid=770288429175&ds_e_matchtype=search&ds_e_device=c&ds_e_network=g&ds_e_product_group_id=297546631617&ds_e_product_id=en1005010750245731&ds_e_product_merchant_id=5520179106&ds_e_product_country=ZZ&ds_e_product_language=en&ds_e_product_channel=online&ds_e_product_store_id=&ds_url_v=2&albcp=22921330774&albag=181072663861&isSmbAutoCall=false&needSmbHouyi=false&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22921330774&gbraid=0AAAAA_AVUydol8GpH6S0k30bE_g8UP-IC&gclid=Cj0KCQjw4a3OBhCHARIsAChaqJPkHkmMnT6K1zxewounaptPXjKBpcwaIapUE5rPXrrW4v2CMxh1O6kaAsgTEALw_wcB

Blimey, I'd never thought to look on there!

Thanks, I shall investigate..