1940 16H kickstart

hi patrick

e bay is a good place to look i have brought a couple recently

what is wrong with your kick start lever

regards roger

Norton 'Dollshead' boxes always used a splined kickstart shaft with a pinchbolt lever. The use of a cotter-pin fixing sounds BSA or Burman ? It must have been quite a major operation to convert it.

Norton kickstart levers of this period do turn up surprisingly often but there are small variations in length and off-set which won't compromise function in most cases.

Any chance of some photographs of the outside of your box ? The 'catastrophic' failure suggests that original might be best in this case.

Previously patrick_fielder wrote:

Hi Roger,

Mine has actually snapped through the side of the splined large hole!

I have had a look on ebay and they are all different to mine, mine has a tapered cotter pin through it (like an old bicycle crank) rather than a pinch bolt at the lower section.

Might have to look harder

Any chance of you copying and pasting a link to the ones you have bought into reply please?

Thanks for the input.

Previously roger_deadman wrote:

hi patrick

e bay is a good place to look i have brought a couple recently

what is wrong with your kick start lever

regards roger

Hi Patrick,

A photo would be good. Pre 1931 Norton Sturmey Archergearboxes also had cotter pins fitted to the kickstarter. The later ones would also fit a 1930's typeframe.

regards,

Ian