Have spent a thoroughly frustrating day wrestling with new project, leftovers from the plunger & really should have taken the wife's advice & sold it all on ebay but!
The original 1949 plunger, see my avatar pic died in 1965 & the PO spent the next few years going round autojumbles amassing bits for the rebuild which he never got round to.
Fast forward to 2009 & having resurrected that, he was dead chuffed to see it alive again, I find myself with boxes of engine parts, gearboxes, cycle parts you name it, all left over.
To top it all I find that amongst the boxes is a very rusty but complete longstroke Star Twin engine with correct head & carbs, reground (albeit slightly rusty) crank, rods, cases have new t/s bush, offer up, looks good, locally engineering shop confirms 1.8thou clearance to crank, seems was jig bored & left to rot. Barrels very rusty but no lip, dubious engineer agrees to hone, cleans up niceley +60 thou, which matches a pair of new unused +60 hepolite pistons from another box, feel am on a roll here!
Then a rigid frame came along, honestly who could resist!
Trying to figure out how to get a plunger hub rear wheel into a rigid frame with a swinging arm spindle & spacers was a real challenge.
Thanks to Tombeau for pointers on that, I'm no engineer. Quite handy with an angle grinder though!!!
Ill health & myriad delays mean this is months behind schedule but ending up with a very sexy looking rolling chassis made me come over all lovey!
Cracked a few beers see last photo & grabbed camera instead of clearing up garage, also see last photo!
This will be very much a special b*****d Bitsa with bits from every incarnation the A7, originality is not a concern but I'm thinking it'll look quite tasty, if somewhat irreverant.
Thinking of a name, "Josh" springs to mind!
To be continued!
Cheers
Rusty