With my bike off the road and largely in pieces whilst the dynamo and magneto were away for reconditioning, it also seemed like a good opportunity to sort out my rather worn clutch basket that I mentioned in a previous post. The ‘B52’ type clutch basket fitted to my 1951 ‘CP’ gearbox was quite heavily …
In order to be able to remove the dynamo from my Matchless G3LS to send it for servicing, I had also had to remove the timing chain cover from the engine. One of the timing cams came out of the engine, still attached to the timing cover, and so the cams would need to be …
I went to collect my G3LS bike from the mechanics yesterday following various work replacing the valves, guides and springs as I mentioned in my previous post here. On the test ride I was having some problems with the carb which caused the engine to cut out a few times, but then the problem got …
After moving from India to here in Hong Kong, I took my Matchless G3Ls to one of the local garages specialising in classic bikes for a good check over. I was reasonably sure that my mechanic back in Hyderabad knew what he was doing, but just wanted to be extra sure that everything was as …
Back when I was living in India, it proved impossible to source the proper spark plugs (e.g. a simple NGK B7ES) for my Matchless. The spark plug the mechanic recommended and had installed in my G3Ls was a Bosch type designed for Royal Enfield Bullets. The bike seemed to run ok on this, albeit a …
The chain guard and clutch cover were still to be fitted when the engine was started for me for the first time last week, so naturally the engineer in me was enthralled by all the gears and chains whizzing round. So much so that I thought I best record a quick video clip to show …
Big progress made today – the engine has been started at last after it’s full strip-down and rebuild! There’s still lots of work to finish off though, but at least the frame is now rolling (i.e. the wheels on!) and we know that the engine runs, which is a big relief! It sounded a bit …
The next part I wanted to have a look at was the gearbox. From the owners club forum I understood that there should be a gearbox number stamped somewhere on the case, in addition to the engine and frame numbers (the gearbox and engine are separate units on these bikes). However with the years of accumulated crud and grime …