Triton project in Canada

Hi All,

I thought I'd share my Triton project that I started in my basement in December '08

Slimline Featherbed 650 Atlas with a 56 Triumph Thunderbird pre-unit motor with a 65 Bonnevile top end. I've got 4 transmissions to choose from. Not sure which to go with yet.

December 19, 2008 at 10:35am
Here are the wheels I rebuilt. New bearings, new rims and spokes. and I polished the hubs and laced the wheels myself:


It took a bit of adjustment but I managed to mount bacon slickers on the front wheel. They just need to be polished now:


Here are the parts of one of my roadholder forks pre-assembly:


- polished slider, bushings
- new seals, stanchions and top and bottom coill covers and coil
- original, unmodified Headlight ears and dampenders.

Same fork assembled


January 5, 2009 at 7:53am
The forks are assembled!


If you were wondering what they looked like prior to polish, they looked like this:




As a side note, here's a picture I took of an actual 1956 Norton Manx which was at the Barber Museum in Alabama, USA:


A couple of things to note:

1) The fork spring shouds are not perfectly cylindrical. There is a cut out in the inside which allows for lubricating the external springs.
2) The Roadholder badges are on the fork shroud itself, not on the headlight ears. This is an adjustment I need to make to mine.
3) The fender is held on with 2 "Y" shaped clamps. These are called "Converta" fender mounts, which I do have a pair of and will install. :)

Next up: Trying to change the head bearings in the frame from circular bearings to more modern ones.



January 6, 2009 at 5:59pm
ok. Finally mounted the forks.

New Headbearings & vortex clipons

Note: The new bearings had a completely different profile then the originals and thus had to custom create a bottom spacer, top spacer and inner tube spacer.






January 7, 2009 at 3:17pm
I did a test fit of the transmission today. it's looking great!





January 11, 2009 at 6:28am
I did a bunch of polishing yesterday, specifically with the primary cover.

The Before shot is the shot that appeared on eBay when I bid and won the cover.

The after shot is after 2 rounds of sanding and polishing. Not only is the discolouration (Canadian Spelling) gone, but I also removed all of the deep gouges. This took about 3 hours to get right but it's gorgeous now.





January 11, 2009 at 12:21pm
I mounted the motor today. It's offical ... it's a triton.

I still have to make the front motor mounts, but it's in and looking great!






January 13, 2009 at 12:41pm

ok .. today, I received new shocks and installed new shocks :-)





January 14, 2009 at 1:23pm
I decided to mount the wheels. Here's what it looks like so far:

nice one, thanx for the great photo's. It's allways nice to see a work in progress

Great pictures, also converted the swingarm bushings or going to use the original Silent Blocs ?

i'm going to stay with the original bushings unless I run into trouble

Great project...!

Nice indeed

Keep us updated!

love it

The Headers are mounted.
The primary case mounted temporarily.

Rear Fender chopped and tail light mounted.

Timing cover polished and re-installed

Hi All,

Today is my birthday, and for my birthday my girlfriend designed and had a custom T-shirt printed off for me.



If you'd like one, please let me know and I'll put you in contact with her.

Cheers!
H

At first, happy birthday, let me guess, 30 now?

Great project, but what is the flowerpot doing in this matter, i did see it in some of your picsies.

Keep up the good work, Grtz Frank,

Thanks, and I'm a little older then

I was using the flower pot to centre the front rim while the rim didn't have a tire. Temporary measure and you use what you have sitting around

Happy Birthday Scarcat!
And your project is already looking gooood

Happy birthday!!!!