English 101 - A Tune And Service Guide for Vintage Triumph and BSA Motorcycles
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English 101 is a full tune & service DVD that covers pre unit and unit Triumphs and unit BSAs. In this interactive shop manual, watch step-by-step as Wes White of Four Aces Cycle demonstrates everything you need to keep your British bike reliable, on the road and running great. This 4-hour video is broken down into easy-to-follow chapters and is designed to teach you how to maintain your British motorcycle
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01:24 - Introduction and Valve Adjustments
03:06 - Valve adjustments on Triumph Unit motor out of bike.
14:13- Tips on doing a valve adjustment on a Triumph Pre-unit motor while motor is in a bike.
15:13 - BSA Valve adjustment.
22:28 - Oil in frame Triumph Unit motors look different.
23:22 - BSA Primary side and adjustments overview.
26:42 - BSA motorcycle overview, difference and similarities to Triumph
32:08 - Finding Top Dead Center
32:10 - Finding top dead center on a Triumph Unit motor
49:03 - Finding top dead center on a Triumph Pre-Unit motor
58:41 - Ignition Systems - Magneto, Electronic ignition and points.
58:45 - How to install and time a Joe Hunt Magneto on a Triumph Unit motor.
01:13:20 - How to set up and use a timing light and what to do for points, electronic or mag.
01:14:56 - Installing a Lucas Magneto on a Triumph Pre-Unit Motor.
01:19:00 - Installing advance wheel, see the difference in two different kinds.
01:20:10 - How to install full advance bob weight wheel.
01:23:00 - How to install normal advance wheel.
01:27:25 - Oil Systems and Oil Changes.
01:27:54 - Oil lines, how they should be and how they work.
01:35:06 - Some extra stuff to know with Pre-unit motors about oil lines.
01:35:35 - Oil pressure reals valve on a Triumph Unit Motor.
01:38:06 - What to drain, unplug etc. and what not to on Triumph Unit Motor.
01:42:28 - Oil Change on Triumph Pre-unit Motor differences.
01:49:19 - Primary cover on Triumph Pre-Unit Motor
01:50:57 - Chain Adjustments
01:51:03 - Adjust the primary chain on a Triumph Pre-Unit Motor.
02:07:01 - Check your chain for ware and check your sprocket.
02:08:26 - BSA Chain adjustment differences.
02:09:35 - What to look out for in Dunlop vintage British Wheels.
02:11:33 - Transmission Primary chain adjustment on swing arm Triumph Pre-Unit motor.
02:14:26 - Carburetors on Triumph Pre-Unit.
02:17:03 - Adjust primary chain on Triumph Unit Motor.
02:20:25 - Adjust primary chain on BSA Motor.
02:24:14 - Clutch Adjustments
02:24:25 - Clutch adjustment of the pushrod on a Triumph Unit Motor.
02:26:58 - Clutch cable adjustment on a Triumph Pre-Unit Motor.
02:32:44 - Clutch cable adjustment on a Triumph Unit Motor.
02:36:44 - Carburetor Tips, Basics on Amal Carbs
02:46:14 - Setting up proper slack in your throttle cable that goes to your carburetors.
02:56:35 - Float Stuck talks.
02:57:29 - single carb vs dual carb setup.
02:58:43 - Dissembling and cleaning your Amal Carburetor.
03:11:07 - Electrical System Maintenance.
03:11:24 - Test your battery.
03:16:18 - Quick test of the alternator.
03:17:30 - Test Light basics
03:22:31 - Test the length of your spark.
03:23:38 - Lucas competition magneto overview
03:25:19 - Boyer ignition plate installation on a Triumph Unit Motor.
03:30:20 - Boyer ignition plate installation on a BSA Motor.
03:31:38 - Adjust points on a BSA Motor.
03:35:51 - Handy Dandy Tips and Tricks.
03:38:52 - Compression Test.
03:43:04 - Trouble starting?
03:45:30 - Chassis and Wheels.
03:45:38 - Check your wheel bearings.
03:50:41 - Putting the wheel hub / brake plate back together.
03:52:27 - Check your brakes.
03:55:34 - Triumph Pre-Unit front wheel overview
03:56:28 - Changing out neck bearings with a Timken bearing conversion kit.
04:06:56 - How to check your steering head in your neck.
04:08:09 - tighten up the triple trees.
04:10:29 - Check your tire pressure!
04:11:09 - Outro, Thanks for watching now go for a ride!
So helpful, THANK you for sharing this.
I’m rebuilding a 51’ Thunderbird, chopped sometime in the 70’s with my friend and father in-law, and this video has really helped the process.
Cheers from Denmark.
Thank you for such a great how-to video!
I'm 60 years old and this is what I was riding back then. Plus Honda twins and fours. Harleys. You guys really understand the value and technical knowledge of this old British steel. Thanks for posting this to help folks out. Oh by the way, your videos are well done.
The Triumphs and BSAs made great choppers, just like the 750 Hondas and Sportster Harleys.
What a cool production 👊🏼💀👊🏼
Sharing is definitely caring especially for my old 68 Bonnie Thanks guys
Thank you for sharing this knowledge with all of us! This certainly helps keep people interested in classic bikes and how we can work on them ourselves! 🤘🏻😎
It's not very easy to find information on magnetos or pre-unit Triumphs for that matter! Thanks again Low Brow and Four Aces!
Holy crap! I watched a 4 hour video of Wes yacking his head off on the most boring topics you can imagine about a Triumph and BSA bike. Now I am so pumped on watching English 102!
This has to be the most detailed video showing complete processing of maintaining and tuning your Triumph or BSA bike.
I am so thankful for you guys at Lowbrow Customs for making this video. And the really great part of this video is the timeline of each section is outlined in the description for future reference.
Cheers
This is amazing how step by step this video makes it for someone that might have never worked on a Triumph before very easy to follow! Thanks for making it accessible to everyone!!
Thanks, this is a great video
Absolutely superb
Watching this made in america and I'm ten miles away from where these bikes and engines were built originally haha, love it
Fantastic upload Lowbrow Customs - smart move too because contrary to most content owners, uploading this material actually makes me want to purchase the DVD Collection of this series because I can actually SEE what I am getting. Thanks for being such a great business!
Excellent video! I just bought a 73 TR7V, and this will help tremendously, thanks, gents!
Wes, your patient and careful instruction is so on point. Thank you. Kiwi T100 Daytona 67 - out of Merriden via the USA, owner.
I used to use a roll your own cigarrete paper in my points on my old AJS.Had to wedge the auto advance open on full advance with a piece of wood.Piston at 1/5 inch TDC with the paper just releasing.Mags are so good to work on.Used to use an old spoke in the sparkplug hole as vertical as possible to set height of piston.Enjoy these old bikes.Used to use the valve lifter to stop engine.No ignition switch fitted.
Just found this. Amazing. Former and hopefully future Noirton owner. Wish you had Norton covered like your Triumph BSA material but wish I had this instead of just a Haynes manual back in the day.
Love that bench stand for the motor. I'd totally rationalize spending too much on that if it were for sale somewhere...
Thanks love lowbrow and this really tops it off! Just got a old BSA running big learning curve for me!
Thank you greatly for the upload guys.
My 63 US spec T100sc imported back here to the UK should now get some proper TLC.
Loving all of these Lowbrow Customs videos. They're really helpful. I wish there were better close up shots of the different bolts under the engine (during the oil changing section) especially the large bolt he said NOT to touch. I couldn't see which one he was talking about.
This is brilliant 👍🏼thanks for posting this now as I’m just about to do a total tear down on my Triumph t120 1972. 😁
We have a whole engine rebuild series on here to for Triumph 650 motors. It starts here - th-cam.com/video/tWCdHG0pz3o/w-d-xo.html
@@lowbrowcustoms and they are bloody great
Great video, lots of brilliant information! It's all so useful!! The video is spoilt by the constant ads. In the first 21 minutes, I've had 8 yes 8 adverts for Amazon! Talk about how to ruin something brilliant!!
Nice series, Wes, well done.
you guys are great, like you made this for me ! ,will be placing order soon, (another), this helped me not give up
Cool! I come across some old BSAs for sale every once in awhile. Cool stuff!
Wow, thanx guys i learned a few tricks for sure.
Mesmerizing
I am commending you Wes for your patience and detailed instruction on this video, a job well done. I really appreciate your effort Man!!! Furthermore i have a bonnevile 750 and would like to know if i can install a magneto setup so as to eliminate the battery totally also would like to install a suitable cam for improved performance. Thanks in advance.
THANK YOU..
Most awesome Thanks!
This is very generous, thank you.
I know it’s just semantics but a “valve job” shouldn’t be mistaken for a valve adjustment. A valve job is the process of removing the valves and replacing and/or grinding or lapping both the seats and the valves. What’s being performed in this video is a valve adjustment…big difference.
I don't understand the warning about switching on ignition on positive earth (ground) system with charger connected. If you are connected direct to the battery terminals, positive is positive and negative is negative, regardless of which one is grounded, so the current flow would be the same as with negative ground.
This is so cool 😎
Wes, can you do a 101 on setting optimum valve / cam timing. Tip top tutorial.
Hmmm could have saved 40 bucks. Ab solutely loved salt ghost. Was very surprised to see man with long white beard had passed, seemed healthy. Just goes to show enjoy your days boys! You appear to be doing just that!!!!!!!!!!
At 3.00.42 you refer to the pilot jet but isn't that the needle jet? Only ask because I'm running rich on one cylinder (twin carb) and think it might be the pilot jet but have no idea what size I should go for and the Amal website points to a different piece than you did. Thanks for the video though, sooooo helpful!
Pilot jets on mk 1 concentrics from 1968 on are pressed into the body and only come in 1 size. Earlier versions, and ones made for 2-strokes have a removable jet screwed into the hole in the underside of the main body on the intake side. In either case, the pilot jet will only influence the mixture up to about one quarter throttle. Assuming both carburettors have the correct main jets and throttle slides, a rich mixture could be caused by incorrect needle position, float level too high, or I once had the jet holder on one carb work loose and lower itself, giving the same effect as raising the needle.
Another possibility is a badly worn needle/jet combination on that side, which would allow excess fuel to be drawn through
How u make 2 amalcarburattor in triumph engine go well......??? Help me how to calibrarte
I heard something about tuning the cabs to where the slide is all the way down, and the air/fuel screw is almost all the way out, then turned in slowly till she sounds right. That's what I did. Is that weird?
Amal GP carbs and monoblock carbs are considered smoothbore carburetors the concentric is not, the gasket on a concentric float bowl is key to holding the float pivot in place and the float bowl, I want to pay very close attention to the relationship . Properly engineered float bowl gasket is critical. On the mono block
Carb the thickness of the gasket is super critical between the jet block and the jet holder, The gasket is almost an eighth of an inch thick it keeps the carb slide from binding when you open the throttle wide open, if the engine is running when this happens, you have your hands full to say the least, Killswitch at the ready. Animals will also bind up if the flanges are warped , Flange carburetors are a stupid idea, that’s why spigot /rubber mounted carbs were invented. At my family Bsa dealership we learn not to use the O-rings, we used a couple paper gaskets and A phenolic spacer 16th of an inch. Phenolic is a heat block. Paper gaskets on either side of the heat block. We finished them off sometimes with good old 3M electrical tape, About three revolutions of tape on the spigot . Back to the mono block guard leave the gasket off a jet block holder and screw it into the carburetor until it stops you’ll find it at Fred Meyer’s before the shoulder seats against the base of the carb body, on some other ones I worked on it stopped at 32nd of an inch away from seating flush. One carburetor I worked on I disassembled it 22 times before I found out the problem.😡. In 1971 my brother and I went to service school for Bsa, the last service School they ever had. Dennis Manning from Bub. Enterprises was our teacher, he was working for Harley Davidson, and moonlighting teaching service school for triumph and Bsa, trying to put his ass through college. Can you say conflict of interest?
I don’t know where Fred Meyer’s came from frustrating.
Hi I'm in the U.K. and have a U.S. import T100. It's fitted with the same chrome fork shrouds as your bobber/chop in the video. My question is are these an after market item. Much appreciated video guy's.
Nobody makes aftermarket FC1 shrouds right now. Factory Metal works used to, but haven't been available for a year now. The hardest part of a pre unit front end to acquire, ask me how I know....
Hi Victor, John here in NZ. Same bike, 1967 Tone...
The power plants are ENGINES, not motors.
Most people know the difference, but it is still common vernacular to call what is motorized a motor and an engine both. For example: motorcar, motorcycle, motorized bicycle.
@@JakeTheCrow Look in the manual for any vehicle and you will find ONLY engine unless you are looking at the Heater/AC or the Starter
@@tandem8 I’ve been an electrical engineer for the government for 6 years, I know the difference bud.
@@JakeTheCrow Bud? Now you are confusing Ray with Beer
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Why on earth are you putting the degree wheel on the wrong side of the engine? It’s very unpractical and in some cases even completely useless.