Norton AMC clutch and gearbox guide (questions and answers needed)

I found he's mainly doing autojumbles, which makes contactinformatie him a bit difficult as I'm based in the Netherlands.

Any contact details (through private message of course) would be greatly appreciated. I do really want to try and produce something useful for future reference.

Regarding the parts lists, they're a good idea Peter, but I don't know if I can trust them. If I recall correctly, sometimes the same parts ended up with different numbers. Maybe there was a difference in material or hardening, but not in dimensioning. Just numbers wouldn't tell me the difference either. Again, it's a very good idea, but not conclusive enough for me.

Cheers,

Tim

Thanks very much! To be continued.

Helpful comments from you all. Thanks for that. I'll surely use them in my 'definite guide'. Although, I don't know how definite it'll be.

I've called Dave Coates and he was very friendly and helpful, but he said there are so many differences in gearboxes and clutches, that it would be hard to explain by phone. He advised me to take pictures and post them to him by mail. He would have a look at what I've got and then call me to advice.

So, I've made pictures, measured every part and written the measurements down. It has become quite a book.

There's no way to e-mail or do anything digital, which I must say has its own charm. But as I'm based in the Netherlands, it's not an option to just pop around and visit him to make pictures and take notes to put all his knowledge onto paper.

The only thing that I can do, is put everything I hear and read on this forum and in real life onto paper and send it to him to proof read if he wants and correct or add where needed. That, or a local NOC member must be willing to do the legwork. I'm not sure what would be best and have to think about it.

I've changed the title of this post and added some words to the intro. By doing that, I've made it into something that hopefully should fill with questions and answers during time, as it seems to do already.

I'll then distill that into something resembling a definite guide and try to get some people to do a proof reading.

Sounds like a plan, right? Let's see how far we'll come when we all put our effort in!

Good suggestion, there's a lot of info there. I just have to distil the AMC part out of it and I'll be well underway. Cheers.
 

I've been doing a lot of reading after all your comments and suggestions. I also spoke to Dave Coates, and he explained there are many different variations. Some mix, others won't. I couldn't believe how many different clutch baskets, clutch spiders and so on there are. Same goes for the gearbox. Housings, covers, main shafts, kickstart shafts and gear sets.

There's just so much, and I can't really make a comprehensive guide with just piecing together bits of information from paper. It would be a recipe for errors and if I do this, it must be perfect as it would be something that can be used on this website as a reference.

What would be best is a visit to Dave. He has the knowledge, and he has the parts to show and measure. But I live abroad. So I'm at a bit of an impasse now.

Two options:

1. Somebody close to London joins this project.

2. I take the ferry to Harwich and visit Dave myself. I don't mind investing some of my days off for that, but regretfully I do mind the costs of travel.