Re: 1962 BSA DBD34 Gold Star restoration (We have ignition...)
Good news, my bike is out of my house and finally at the Winona Riders' workshop! Three friends and I took the bike out of my apartment, across my snow covered rooftop garden, carried it down a flight of stairs and I rolled it down the street to our workshop. The seat, mud guards, tank, cylinder head, clocks and head light were removed to make it lighter and to protect those items from damage. It was much easier than I feared and I rewarded the guys with a growler of kind beer and pizza. I spent that evening putting all the pieces back on and cleaning her up.
Despite still feeling ill, I spend more than 10 hours at the shop yesterday. My new chainguard and side stand arrived from Burton Bike Bits. The triple chromed, UK made chainguard was USD $175 and side stand was USD $158 with delivery. Expensive, but very nice components.
I assembled my cylinder head and rocker boxes, measured the gap between the head and cylinder in 12 different places. My new cylinder gasket is just over .033" and the largest gap was just over .032" so I am within recommended tolerance (gasket is 001 to .002" larger than the gap).
I fitted the head, cylinder studs, rocker boxes and pushrods on to the cylinder. It took me quite a while to get this correct and I must say I am not a fan of the inverted cylinder bolts on this motor. It was very tedious, time consuming and difficult to reach even with the magdyno off the motor. Time for me to bend up a wrench which all Goldie owners are familiar with. Everything is buttoned down to spec but I still need to set the valve clearances before turning over the motor.
I also roughed in the wiring harness, headlight switch panel, wired and tested the horn (sounds cool!). My battery will be here in a few days so I can finish the electrical. The exhaust pipe and silencer were installed and the other finals parts will be here this week (misc hardware, compression release cable and gas line kit). I am so happy and we are on the home stretch and time to end this obnoxiously long build thread, hurry up spring!
Good news, my bike is out of my house and finally at the Winona Riders' workshop! Three friends and I took the bike out of my apartment, across my snow covered rooftop garden, carried it down a flight of stairs and I rolled it down the street to our workshop. The seat, mud guards, tank, cylinder head, clocks and head light were removed to make it lighter and to protect those items from damage. It was much easier than I feared and I rewarded the guys with a growler of kind beer and pizza. I spent that evening putting all the pieces back on and cleaning her up.
Despite still feeling ill, I spend more than 10 hours at the shop yesterday. My new chainguard and side stand arrived from Burton Bike Bits. The triple chromed, UK made chainguard was USD $175 and side stand was USD $158 with delivery. Expensive, but very nice components.
I assembled my cylinder head and rocker boxes, measured the gap between the head and cylinder in 12 different places. My new cylinder gasket is just over .033" and the largest gap was just over .032" so I am within recommended tolerance (gasket is 001 to .002" larger than the gap).
I fitted the head, cylinder studs, rocker boxes and pushrods on to the cylinder. It took me quite a while to get this correct and I must say I am not a fan of the inverted cylinder bolts on this motor. It was very tedious, time consuming and difficult to reach even with the magdyno off the motor. Time for me to bend up a wrench which all Goldie owners are familiar with. Everything is buttoned down to spec but I still need to set the valve clearances before turning over the motor.
I also roughed in the wiring harness, headlight switch panel, wired and tested the horn (sounds cool!). My battery will be here in a few days so I can finish the electrical. The exhaust pipe and silencer were installed and the other finals parts will be here this week (misc hardware, compression release cable and gas line kit). I am so happy and we are on the home stretch and time to end this obnoxiously long build thread, hurry up spring!
