Looking good man, love the look of the pre unit Triumphs, I have a few t120s and are doing my bobber at the moment, I've been looking for some of them fork covers but you can't get them for love nor money here in the UK! anyway keep up the good work.
God Knows Why Triumph made to duplex frame. They had to redo the mounts for the sheet metal and the thing acted like a tuning fork increasing the vibrations. They should have stage with the old frame for the 3 years that it took for them to make the unit construction bike. When I bought my 1965 TR6 Triumph with a bolt on hardtail I actually wore out the frame. It started to wiggle a little bit and I figured I had to go change the oil in the forks and then I'm showing my brother the bike on Thanksgiving the next day and there's a trunk of the frame missing. My good Quality Reynolds chain was holding the back end of the bike together because there was a crack also underneath the Harley tool box and you can see where the chain was grinding the sprockets because the chain was better metal. The mechanics who put another rear end on the bike told the Reynolds representative about how I swear by his chain because it held the ass end of my bike together. I didn't have enough money to put another hardtail on it but shop took a hardtail section off a dead guy's bike and put it on mine and made brackets for the seat and the fender and I told him I didn't have the money to pay for that and they said well when we tell you what it cost to fix something you just pay it you don't pushy out and whine about it. As well as everybody knowing I wasn't a mechanic they said me riding the bike all over God's creation was good advertising for the shop. Until all the mechanics bad habits caught up to him and ruined his judgments and he started to ruin people's bikes. I love seeing Triumph and pretty stuff because I'm so sick of the Harley everything. I have a Sportster my 1999 and I got 400,000 miles on the original engine. I've had to try and TR6 for 40 years now. Wrote it everyday for work or if the job interviews or temporary assignments. Still have the bike. The doctors are always talking about cutting off half of my left foot and all my buddies at the American Legion who lost the leg and now I'm saying it's not a big thing and if they do cut off your foot you can always go back to riding your Triumph hahaha. Then I kind of tell him I'm really attached to my foot you know.
...for sure that you have plenty of bikes; I have 3 Triumph 1 Husqvarna; a vespa and a Velosolex moped and I really want to cut down but nobody wants old iron here so I do not know what to do. Plenty of money to rebuild or maintain. I hope soon to start the rebuild of my main one, a 79 T140 dual plugs head that I had the crankshaft fractured but I put about 13000km in a year and a half before that.; then I wait about a year to find, to buy and receive a crank from UK! Still waiting for engine parts after another year! ---So why the motor smoked? Why the rings would be bad so quickly? Cheers
Nice video. Lots of helpful info. Do you have any advice on setting up new drum brakes to get the best stopping power. I put some new Ferodo drums on the rear of my 64 TR6 but they don't work very well. I know these old drum brakes are notoriously bad, but I feel it should be a little better than it currently is. If I could get the rear brake to work as good as my front brake, I'd be happy.
I have never had a problem with these brakes I'm a fan of the single leading shoe. The two main things you need to worry about is an ovalized drum and making sure the brake shoes are in the correct orientation. A lot of people don't realize the brake shoes are directional. Look up "triumph 650 brake shoe installation chart" and that will show you how to correctly install the shoes.
@@vorhese Thanks. I'll have to take off the rear wheel and double check the direction. I'm pretty sure I put the shoes on the same way the old ones came off, but I don't know if those were original to the bike or put on by a past owner.
@@vorhese Hello Sr. congratulation, you made a beautiful work with that motorcycle. Please, let me a questions, I am rebuilding a Triumph Preunit 650cc of 1956, I can’t found a good front forks for my motorcycle. I like the front forks you used in your motorcycle, please do you know where I will can found it. Thanks and congratulation again for that wonderful works.
Hello Sr. congratulation, you made a beautiful work with that motorcycle. Please, let me a questions, I am rebuilding a Triumph Preunit 650cc of 1956, I can’t found a good front forks for my motorcycle. I like the front forks you used in your motorcycle, please do you know where I will can found it. Thanks and congratulation again for that wonderful works.
Looking good man, love the look of the pre unit Triumphs, I have a few t120s and are doing my bobber at the moment, I've been looking for some of them fork covers but you can't get them for love nor money here in the UK! anyway keep up the good work.
God Knows Why Triumph made to duplex frame. They had to redo the mounts for the sheet metal and the thing acted like a tuning fork increasing the vibrations. They should have stage with the old frame for the 3 years that it took for them to make the unit construction bike. When I bought my 1965 TR6 Triumph with a bolt on hardtail I actually wore out the frame. It started to wiggle a little bit and I figured I had to go change the oil in the forks and then I'm showing my brother the bike on Thanksgiving the next day and there's a trunk of the frame missing. My good Quality Reynolds chain was holding the back end of the bike together because there was a crack also underneath the Harley tool box and you can see where the chain was grinding the sprockets because the chain was better metal. The mechanics who put another rear end on the bike told the Reynolds representative about how I swear by his chain because it held the ass end of my bike together. I didn't have enough money to put another hardtail on it but shop took a hardtail section off a dead guy's bike and put it on mine and made brackets for the seat and the fender and I told him I didn't have the money to pay for that and they said well when we tell you what it cost to fix something you just pay it you don't pushy out and whine about it. As well as everybody knowing I wasn't a mechanic they said me riding the bike all over God's creation was good advertising for the shop. Until all the mechanics bad habits caught up to him and ruined his judgments and he started to ruin people's bikes. I love seeing Triumph and pretty stuff because I'm so sick of the Harley everything. I have a Sportster my 1999 and I got 400,000 miles on the original engine. I've had to try and TR6 for 40 years now. Wrote it everyday for work or if the job interviews or temporary assignments. Still have the bike. The doctors are always talking about cutting off half of my left foot and all my buddies at the American Legion who lost the leg and now I'm saying it's not a big thing and if they do cut off your foot you can always go back to riding your Triumph hahaha. Then I kind of tell him I'm really attached to my foot you know.
...for sure that you have plenty of bikes; I have 3 Triumph 1 Husqvarna; a vespa and a Velosolex moped and I really want to cut down but nobody wants old iron here so I do not know what to do. Plenty of money to rebuild or maintain.
I hope soon to start the rebuild of my main one, a 79 T140 dual plugs head that I had the crankshaft fractured but I put about 13000km in a year and a half before that.; then I wait about a year to find, to buy and receive a crank from UK! Still waiting for engine parts after another year!
---So why the motor smoked? Why the rings would be bad so quickly?
Cheers
Nice video. Lots of helpful info. Do you have any advice on setting up new drum brakes to get the best stopping power. I put some new Ferodo drums on the rear of my 64 TR6 but they don't work very well. I know these old drum brakes are notoriously bad, but I feel it should be a little better than it currently is. If I could get the rear brake to work as good as my front brake, I'd be happy.
I have never had a problem with these brakes I'm a fan of the single leading shoe. The two main things you need to worry about is an ovalized drum and making sure the brake shoes are in the correct orientation. A lot of people don't realize the brake shoes are directional. Look up "triumph 650 brake shoe installation chart" and that will show you how to correctly install the shoes.
@@vorhese Thanks. I'll have to take off the rear wheel and double check the direction. I'm pretty sure I put the shoes on the same way the old ones came off, but I don't know if those were original to the bike or put on by a past owner.
Where/ how did you get that Springer style dog one setup to work? Very cool, never seen one on anything but a harley
I just made an angle adapter tube. 7/8" center with 1" angled ends welded on.
@@vorhese Hello Sr. congratulation, you made a beautiful work with that motorcycle. Please, let me a questions, I am rebuilding a Triumph Preunit 650cc of 1956, I can’t found a good front forks for my motorcycle. I like the front forks you used in your motorcycle, please do you know where I will can found it. Thanks and congratulation again for that wonderful works.
Hello Sr. congratulation, you made a beautiful work with that motorcycle. Please, let me a questions, I am rebuilding a Triumph Preunit 650cc of 1956, I can’t found a good front forks for my motorcycle. I like the front forks you used in your motorcycle, please do you know where I will can found it. Thanks and congratulation again for that wonderful works.