Brilliant stuff Paul, the dished washer yet another reason why A65's had (have?) such a bad reputation for a "weak" bottom end. You are showing immense care and patience with this engine in getting it right That attitude was and still is absent amongst many who just chuck em together and hope for the best. Your innitial videos about this bike exposed that perfectly, well done mate the owner will have a great bike when you've finished doing it properly.
i had a real Lightning Clubman, that kept eating the timing side bushes, the inner bronze bearing kept working its way out and getting eaten by the cam gears, it had a brand new crank, steel bush holder, complete bottom end rebuild four times in around 10k miles. at the time i thought why not use a needle roller bearing with a different oil feed to the crank. the bike when running was really quick, good handling but ended up being sold for £50 after the last failure. imho my A10 had a nicer engine
@@peterparsons3297 I had similar woes with a genuine clubman i had in the late 70's, kept wrecking the bottom end no matter what i did, in the end i detuned it and put a Devimead conversion in it. I agree the A10 is a nicer motor and more suited to that design of main bearing. BSA should have redsigned the whole bottom end when they went to the A65 knowing they were going to signifcantly increase the power output, I'm sure they knew the limits of that type of plain main bearing but chose to ignore it probably due to cost at the time!
Don't ream or hone the Vandervell vp23 bush, they were supposed to be pre sized and wouldbe damaged by reaming etc. Lightly get the crank polished to suit . Great job so far 👍I've dropped a BSA update my channel mate.
@@paulhenshaw4514 If you have a press you may be able to flatten the lip but the stretch may make it useless. A flat surface pre sand to flat defeats the purpose I guess adding wear and float.
Thank you for spoiling us with both content and context today Paul.
The touch of a surgeon, mate.
Getting there Paul !
hi Paul coming along nicely now.
Brilliant stuff Paul, the dished washer yet another reason why A65's had (have?) such a bad reputation for a "weak" bottom end. You are showing immense care and patience with this engine in getting it right That attitude was and still is absent amongst many who just chuck em together and hope for the best. Your innitial videos about this bike exposed that perfectly, well done mate the owner will have a great bike when you've finished doing it properly.
i had a real Lightning Clubman, that kept eating the timing side bushes, the inner bronze bearing kept working its way out and getting eaten by the cam gears, it had a brand new crank, steel bush holder, complete bottom end rebuild four times in around 10k miles. at the time i thought why not use a needle roller bearing with a different oil feed to the crank. the bike when running was really quick, good handling but ended up being sold for £50 after the last failure. imho my A10 had a nicer engine
@@peterparsons3297 I had similar woes with a genuine clubman i had in the late 70's, kept wrecking the bottom end no matter what i did, in the end i detuned it and put a Devimead conversion in it. I agree the A10 is a nicer motor and more suited to that design of main bearing. BSA should have redsigned the whole bottom end when they went to the A65 knowing they were going to signifcantly increase the power output, I'm sure they knew the limits of that type of plain main bearing but chose to ignore it probably due to cost at the time!
Don't ream or hone the Vandervell vp23 bush, they were supposed to be pre sized and wouldbe damaged by reaming etc. Lightly get the crank polished to suit . Great job so far 👍I've dropped a BSA update my channel mate.
yes i agree with you are spot on
Progress in the right direction? Here's hoping.....
Bravo!
Good job man,
👌Over to you John - do your magic - baited breath..
Wow!😮
Wonky washer!! I ask you!! Whatever next. This is like the rhubarb quality of pattern spares in the seventies
Great British engineering wonky washer 😂
Probably stamped out in China or India, more than likely.
@@paulhenshaw4514 Chinese - Aliexpress 🤣🤣🤣
Aliexpress, 29 cents plus $11 shipping and 7 weeks shipping time.
@@paulhenshaw4514 If you have a press you may be able to flatten the lip but the stretch may make it useless. A flat surface pre sand to flat defeats the purpose I guess adding wear and float.