Julian's Scrambler build "Post 1"

[Jim]

Hi Julian,

This is a phenomenal effort. What cams did you end up choosing, I think that you were considering Megacycle ones.

[JulianM]

Hi Jim,

Used Spitfire / GS a cam after much consultation but had the followers reground with a flatter 1 3/4" radius for faster opening.

Am fairly sure this will work as good as any. 

Regards,
Julian

[Greybeard]

If you are planning to join the exhaust header pipes together won't that make it impossible to remove them from the head?

[JulianM]

Morning Neil,

Have a quick look at page 3 of this topic and about half way down you will see the modifications I did to the exhaust ports and flanges, I hate the standard push in and hope arrangement so made bolt on flanges with small locators so they will just "snap" in and bolt up, makes life easier and less leaky 

Good observation though!  impressed!

Best regards,
Julian

[Greybeard]

I must have missed that part. That exhaust attachment looks very sensible. I just smeared exhaust cement around my headers when I assembled them.

[JulianM]

Bit more work in the shed recently.

Rocker cover cleaned and lightly polished, Built up and fitted,  tasety alloy covers fitted,
Ignition leads fitted, (the right way round)  
Carbs and manifolds fitted, Choke slide cut down and Araldited into the main slide.
Carb bell mouths and filters fitted,
Fuel taps fitted and fuel lines made and fitted,
Head light moved slightly closer to the bars,
Getting closer to the big day but off to Italy for a week now so nothing more for a couple of weeks.











Hope you like how it's coming together.

Julian

[Briz]

Pretty close to the big fireup. Betcha cant wait!
Be sure to take some vid of the big event!

[Greybeard]

Bit more work in the shed recently.
Hope you like how it's coming together.
Julian

Oh yuss!

[Topdad]

Looks the bees knees Julian, can't wait to hear and hopefully see her burst into life! pray tell how you're going to protect your nuts from the oil tank cap will the seat cover it and hinge I know you'll have thought that out so I wait with baited breath . Just reminded me of the Dunstall dominator/Triton oil cap ,which along with the triumph tank grid  rendered quite a few riders hors d'combat in the child rearing department . best wishes BobH

[JulianM]

Hi Bob,
The seat covers it and is very fast to remove, just pull on a "pip pin" and the seat removes backward.  Steel uder side so should protect balls hopefully  )

Julian

[JulianM]

Moved on a little recently but no where near as much as I would like!

Polished the front mudguard and fitted it,
Made and fitted the front backplate retainer.
Oil return pipe made and fitted,
Grips and levers on,
Clutch cable in,
Front brake cable in but still need to make a small connector for the front brake arm,
Gear reduction box made in order to use the 4:1 rev counter with the 3:1 drive.

To do.
Fit Rev counter and make spacers for bracket,
Make and fit Rev counter cable.
Make and fit throttle cable,
Fit advance lever,
Make and fit oil pickup pipe and ball valve with ignition cut-out,
Finish clutch adjuster cover and fit,
Fit sump cover,
Polish and fit sump guard,
Buy and fit rear chain,
Final adjustment of rear chain tensioner,
Move wheel back to full length,
Wire in lights,
Finish weld exhaust headers,
Make tail pipe,
Ceramic coat complete exhaust,
Re-fit exhaust,
Prime oil system,
Check to see what I've forgotten
Fire up!
Pray!
Change rear tyre to road profile for running on rollers,
Setup ignition and fuelling on rolling road.
Test it! 

More picks tomorrow.
Julian

[Topdad]

Julian saw you online I think yesterday and hoped you'd update this post , I'm sure that list will be cut to pieces soon, by the way the range of one off little "jobs" you do matter of factly is quite unbelieveable! I wait for the piccys with anticipation. This post should be inline for somekind of award from the forum , name of the award  on a postcard too  ...... regards BobH

[JulianM]

Moved on a little recently but no where near as much as I would like!

Polished the front mudguard and fitted it,
Made and fitted the front backplate retainer.
Oil return pipe made and fitted,
Grips and levers on,
Clutch cable in,
Front brake cable in but still need to make a small connector for the front brake arm,
Gear reduction box made in order to use the 4:1 rev counter with the 3:1 drive.

To do.
Fit Rev counter and make spacers for bracket,
Make and fit Rev counter cable.
Make and fit throttle cable,
Fit advance lever and connect up.
Make and fit oil pickup pipe and ball valve with ignition cut-out,
Finish clutch adjuster cover and fit,
Fit sump cover,
Polish and fit sump guard,
Buy and fit rear chain,
Final adjustment of rear chain tensioner,
Move wheel back to full length,
Wire in lights,
Finish weld exhaust headers,
Make tail pipe,
Ceramic coat complete exhaust,
Re-fit exhaust,
Prime oil system,
Check to see what I've forgotten
Fire up!
Pray!
Change rear tyre to road profile for running on rollers,
Setup ignition and fuelling on rolling road.
Test it! 

More picks tomorrow.
Julian

Little revision.

J

[JulianM]

New scrambles kickstart, polished and chromed and then wrapped with string which was soaked in varnish, left to dry and then re-varnished for both protection and to make it stick to the kickstart.





New X link Gold chain fitted, a bit wide to be honest but looks cool!
Chain tensioner pad needs modifying to sit correctly.



Tyre clearance is minimal as I had to bring the wheel more forward than ideal due to not wanting to use a half link in the chain.



Almost Finished.



Julian

[Topdad]

WOW !! Really something ,us mere mortals salute you Julian , can't wait to hear and hopefully see her running, best wishes BobH