Today I finally got my barrels and heads back from the engine shop! Heads got new guides and valves, one barrel had to be sleeved and both are honed.
Now I can put my engine together. The barrels and heads were missing hwen I got the bike so I have no experience how they were fitted.
Is there a "front" and "rear" at the barrels or are they symetrically?
Any pitfalls fitting them?
Thanks for any advice!
Uli
Hi Uli, The barrel will on…
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Previously patrick_mullen…
Previously patrick_mullen wrote:
Hi Uli,
The barrel will only fit one way -the fins on the right hand side are specially cut away to fit around the timing cover. It's ages since I had the barrel off an Navigator but I don't remember it as being a problem-the cam followers might cause a minor problem but I think a rubber band solves that (or am I thinking of something different).
Patrick.
Good idea about the bands, I was scratching my head over that. I was going to use grease, but bands are better.
Andrew
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Previously Dan Field wrote…
Previously Dan Field wrote:
Hi Uli, Were the eBay barrels any good?
Dan, the engine shop did a good job with sleeving and honing the cracked barrels. So I stick with them. They informed me yesterday so I picked them up this morning.
The recently purchased barrels via Ebay are for a Norton Electra .
I would have been in need of new pistons and heads plus sandblasting, reboring etc.
They are surplus now.They?re rusted but without broken fins. I didn?t try yet if they fit on the Navigator engine.
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Hi Uli,
The barrel will only fit one way -the fins on the right hand side are specially cut away to fit around the timing cover. It's ages since I had the barrel off an Navigator but I don't remember it as being a problem-the cam followers might cause a minor problem but I think a rubber band solves that (or am I thinking of something different).
Patrick.