S3A Restoration Project – The Rebuild

So I have been really lax in adding pictures of the rebuild…But its going well.

Frame was shotblasted and powder coated by Redditch Shot Blasting, another great job.

Dream Machine did a full strip and paint of all the bodywork and AC Howells did all the chroming.

Had the engine completely rebuilt by Gary at www.classicandmodernbikes.com.

I allowed one major over indulgence! I had the spindles and engines mounting bolts all made in Titanium….ouch that was expensive, but they look great. Pete did a great job at www.ti64.co.uk

Left hand pot had a buggered thread so had to remove the head and get it welded and the tapped to take a new bolt.

Managed to get my hands on a few new NOS parts from around the globe along with some pattern parts……..

So after all of this I started to put the bike back together!

Over the Christmas 2013 break I stripped and ultrasonically cleaned the carbs.

Once that was done I started to polish them up…Didn’t come up too bad….

The carb bodies need a bit more work…

Got some of the chrome work on the back end and also the tail-piece.

This rebuild is becoming very confusing…..The frame & engine number tell me that its a 1975 S3A…However, its got KH400 badges, instead of just 400 badges and its got a 1976 KH400 front wheel. It also didn’t help that the previous owner had rebuilt the front end back to front. He had the front brake disc & calliper on the right hand side when it should be on the left.

This is my most difficult jigsaw to date, but I am getting there slowly!

I wonder what’s in these???