Norton Nemesis V8 rebuild - Episode 12
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- In this video I will be continuing with the rebuild, making a new oil distribution pipe and grinding in the valves.
Note: All parts will be thoroughly cleaned before final assembly, so any debris , swarf dust of dirt seen under macro cinimatography in this video will be cleaned off before the final assembly..
The Norton Nemeses is a pre production prototype that was made in the late 90's with claims of a 200+mph top speed from its 1500cc fuel injected V8 engine.
As far as I'm aware, this is the only bike that has survived but if any of you know of other bikes please leave a comment. This bike is owned by the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham UK has been on display as a non running exhibit for many years.
I have already worked on the bike last year getting the engine to run after a few rudimentary checks, new oil and batteries for series 12 of Henry Cole's "The Motorbike Show" where Henry rode it for a few miles up to around 50 mph, but it wasn't running very well and was leaking a lot of oil and coolant.
Episodes of "The Motorbike show" can be seen on itvx player on line and some shorter edits are available on Henrys UA-cam channel.
Over the coming months I will be stripping the bike to sort out a few issues with the V8 engine and hopefully make it run and ride how it was intended 25 years ago.
One third motorcycle engine build, one third cooking show and the final third of wildlife show. Top show ❤
Just Perfect.
@@tam1381 he was really pleased with that
@@KingsleyTart
I am too👍
I just love every second of all your videos, so inspiring, so educational and so well presented ,thank you for all your effort Mr. Millyard.should be sir millyard in my opinion, 😊 brilliant.
I only watch it for the cooking and wildlife , that banana cake recipe is just perfect .
Why isn’t the whole internet as wholesome as this?
So that you better appreciate this kind of gems when you find them. There are certain of Alan's videos which I've seen min 3 times.
It's like a therapy session after a stressful work day
Saturday is complete
Not until after 6d diesels
AMEN.
I’m here for the cakes.
Haha right on! Toms workshop kwaka 750, superbike surgery and Mr Millyard that’s a great Saturday
I first learned the name Allen Millyard living in New Zealand (1988-ish) buying Brit motorcycle magazines with articles about this guy building insane multi-cylinder Kawasaki H engines with files and a hacksaw. I could not have imagined a future where I could actually watch this person’s hands and mind at work. You’re a treasure, Allen, solid gold.
nothing better than getting stuck into a project with the rain hammering down outside. just perfect.
more if you have a tin roof
Any one else feeling privileged to be witnessing all this? Fastest 25 mins ever!
That's what wife said to me 🙏☘️🙈
The long lost art of hand ground valves. I haven't seen that since high school in the 70's. I can't add anything that hasn't already been said a hundred times, but this is quickly becoming one of my favorite channels. Bravo Allen.
I can remember doing that valve grinding for my 100E Popular 1970 and Mark 1 Cortina in 1972! Putting the collets back in the sidevalve 100E was quite tricky, to say the least!
Still being done - only a few years ago I did last. And scraped the bearings.
I remember doing that with the 8 valves in my Kwak 750 Turbo back in the 90s and being glad when I finished the last one.
Allen has my sympanthy having to do this with 4 times as many ...
With my OCD, after using the fine grinding paste I used Solvol Autosol as the final grinding paste. No idea whether that actually made a difference, but the bike did go like the clappers afterwards ... that may have been down to the other things done to it though.
I used to hand grind valves for my (mechanic) father 60+ years ago.
@@swampyankee72 I didn't think anyone still did it anymore. Looking on my garage shelf, I found I still have a tin of valve grinding paste tucked away out of sight ☺️
You can tell a properly trained engineer. If its not right he makes it right. Bring on episode 13
Exactly that.
Most are only partschangers and not more than that.
But not our engeneer. 😅
He is the best of the best ❤
As a time served aircraft engineer I concur. I can’t stand seeing slap dash work. I also really struggle to pay high labour rates for substandard work.
DIY for me all the way these days.
Allen runs that clock not to relax him, but to drive us mad 🙂
Thank you, Allen, for being so generous with your time to film all of this.
Tea and cake for sustenance.
Me for one, find the sound of the clock very relaxing.
Love the clock!
I grew up in the era of mechanical clocks, and wartime civilian wirelesses, so love the sound of ticking and mains hum.
I used to watch videos of one amazing German watchmaker who had a shop walls covered with various clocks, this was absolutely nuts.
20 minutes or so of mechanical wizardry but think how long it takes repositioning the camera for the various angles to take us through the assembly, just brilliant 🤩
I was always wondering how he does this - all alone, no cameraman or -woman?
@@chrissein632 You seldom see them, but there are very good high resolution cameras you can just clip onto the frame of glasses or goggles. Maybe Go-Pro?
I feel a bit foolish working on my Grandsons go-kart while watching you improve this piece of history. When I'm done with that, I can start bringing my barn find (and it looks it) 72 Triumph Bonneville I just bought back to life. I can't wait! I haven't worked on a nice British motorcycle since my 71 Norton Combat 750. I wish I had such a talented baker in my life. You're a lucky man! Edit... I have to admit, working with my Grandson, showing him and letting him turn some wrenches has been a great source of joy for me. He's doing a great job and is full of 'how does this work?' questions!❤ Thank you Allen for bringing us along! ❤J.W. A great fan of yours in Massachusetts.
No goggles, filter mask or gloves..wipes the swarf off with his fingers. Good old fashioned engineering, Bless you Allen.
Using any make of tools too, Tool Zone feeler gauges for example, cheap but how accurate are they?
The slow tick tick tick of the garage clock and the mellow un-rushed and unflustered voice Mr Magician Millyard, makes this such a pleasure to watch if your a gear head.
✌️❤️&🍀Allen 👍
Correct, this doesn't work with a shouting murican. Because they don't know how to make tea, it needs patience.
This is my favorite channel for good, clean, relaxing fun.
It has a Zen feeling to it.
You are an exemplary example in behaving as we all should, centered, calm and diligently focused
on giving your best effort; to the machines, your audience and most importantly, your family and yourself.
The little kid inside me can barely contain his excitement to hear this build fire to life!
Exermplary example? :D
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance.
@@neilcowan535 "A deserving of imitation example, of how we should pattern our behaviors" was too clunky at the time.
I've been losing words.
Maybe I should have used "fine example" instead but, it was late after a long day for me.
I'm sure he picked up what I was laying down.
Excelsior! 😁
@@wretchedexcess1654 All good my friend... sorry i meant no offence.... i understood what you intended. I just a language nut :)
Superb!
Allen is the difference between homemade and hand crafted! I love watching you work 👍
Milly’s god like engineering, Tracey’s baking, I could watch and listen to this for hours. Lapping the valves in took me back a few years, I thought everyone nowadays uses electric drills, by hand is the proper way because then you can hear when it’s close to done.
Lapping....I also use the 'stick'.....if the valves are ground and match the seat/s...just a few turns will lap them in.
I've owned several Harleys and lap all the valves, even the new valves often need it....If I need to really remove some material, I clamp a 6" long piece of rubber oil line to the stem of the valve, stick a cut off bolt in the other end, and use my electric drill motor for a while.
Learnt a lot I was not sure about. This is like the Open University of deep bike engineering. grateful … thanks
Huge amount of work to fettle this bike, kudos to you Allen for accepting the challenge & meeting it.
My for many years dead father was a skilled mechanical watchmaker. I'm sure he would have loved to watch You work on this engine! Finn. Denmark
Always nice to watch a craftsmen do things properly.
Loved every episode.
There's beauty in that soldered copper pipe, much more than those gash looking red brake pipes.
I'm loving that this is all done with hand tools and an old manual lathe, not a computer in sight.
Can't wait to see this beast running. Hope I'm wrong, but that solid copper pipe feeding the gearbox is likely to fracture eventually. Time will tell.
Allen must have the patience of Jobe to grind and install 32 valves. Tracey's treat of banana cake is well deserved. 🙂👍
Part of me wants to see the job completed, part wants it to go on for ever. Thanks Allen and greetings from Western Australia.
The use of those banjo bolts and copper tubing was genius😋
The second he started grinding that first valve in , my hands started hurting. Damn muscle memory.😂
There are moments when I am tempted by this world to shave a corner on a task and then I am reminded by Allen as others that a proper job is it's own reward.
Piece of art! That meticulous work on the top end, perfect banana cake. The V8 isn't bad either.
Rebuilding the engine and only now makes it into the masterpiece it was suppose to be... - There is absolutely no way you can doubt Allen being a master Artisan in various disciplines of Engineering, turning, fabrication, assembling and much more.
Can't wait to here this roar! I should be able to hear it from my back garden 🤞🤣🤣
That small vice looks like my apprentice piece from 1968 still use it today. Eagerly waiting for the fab of the exhaust manifold. Yet again a superb informative video.
Yes I made it in 1978
@@AllenMillyard mine was made in 1976
Mine in 1982, we’re all showing our age!
I had a horrible fitting teacher in the mid 1970s. I couldn’t wait to throw away my vice.
All I can say .....brilliant stuff. OK , I know this may sound weird but. After watching I was motivated to work out how to build the scale replica of a gasometer needed for my N gauge model railway out of a "coffeemate " container, and several wooden stirers liberated from my local coffee shop. Allen is inspirational.
Shims and buckets, banjos, pigeons, valve springs, hedgehogs... mmmm, banana cake. Only on the Allen Millyard channel and it's just perfect.
Looks like Tracy is as skilled at baking as you are with all things mechanical, Allen. Another beautiful episode to watch.
Oh my word, l cannot stress enough; what a sheer joy it is watching another Allen Millyard episode. I am sitting here and my wife is wondering why l have this look on my face.
Assembling a prototype Norton engine is a fair old test
of skill and patience..well rewarded with banana CAKE!
😂well done Mrs millyard 😇👍👌
I know this has been said many times but i will never cease to be amazed by Allen's ingenuity.
Great job on those oil lines! Should be more than reliable. Traci needs her own baking show. Always making something wonderful. Thanks Allen.
Watching you, you make thing look easy......but I'm aware of how brilliant you are.
My weekly calming session, not a power wrench in sight, just a little bit of turning, drilling and old fashioned hand tools, nice work Allen.
Probably the best video series ever made on UA-cam. Please make another soon. Many thanks.
You're a blessed man Allen. Greatly talented with a equally talented wife in the art of baking. Does life get much better than this? God bless and lots of love from Norway.
Halfway through my GT750 restoration and this has inspired me. Watching this, you realise that there is absolutely no problem that doesn't have a solution.
Way back in the day I’d just purchased a Honda Firestorm, then duly purchasing the latest copy of Australian Motorcycle News magazine there was a full page advert in the rear of the Magazine for the Norton Nemesis and I swore one day I would own one of them, it sadly never eventuated so I’m absolutely hanging to see this beast of a machine running, and especially see what it sounds like.. thanks Alan for showing us this full rebuild..
Thank you Allen.
So good to see the plan coming together.
My ears long for the startup sound 😁
Greetings to Tracey, and thanks for her support.
👍🏻🌿
Thanks for another great video. Much of the valve adjustments are so fiddly. This is a fun, yet demanding, project. Thank you for your time. Thanks to Tracy for the cooking part of the show! Be good. Remain safe!
Can’t wait for episode 13, always very entertaining watch Tracy doing the cooking, with the occasional bit from Allen 😂
Is this a engineering, nature or a cooking video, no one knows 😂😂😂
I pretty much never comment on any youtube/facebook/whatever videos, but yours are so incredibly good, I just have to. I love the way you work and especially how you explain your work. So professional, yet humble. Calm, but confident. I work in a different field, but I really hope to become a professional in my profession, just like you. Also showing us your environment, the lovely kitchen and cakes... hardly can wait for new episodes, each of them just makes me feel better. Thank you.
He's a master machinist who's a pleasure to watch in action. "...it's just perfect, and I'm very pleased..."
Sunday morning, coffee, toast and Alan rebuilding an engine.
Bliss
I think it’s time for Tracey to have her own cake baking channel. I’d love to learn. The amount of times I’ve thought that I’d like some cake with my tea are too many to mention!
I’m loving every minute of this build though!
Maybe a cookbook?
Oh, I can't tell you how relaxing this was. The ticking of the clock, the precise fitting of machined parts with a drop of oil or grease. And then the banana cake! Where were you when this machine was first built? Well done.
Charlies going to be completely pasted after celebrating all these successes!. 😄
That bananna cake was cooked absolutely perfectly! 🤩
Motorbikes, baking and wildlife, this is Blue Peter for grown-ups! Cheers Allen!
the attension to detail is what makes a great engine builder ,,all mods look great ,,what a difference to the engine alans made already
fascinating to watch. I love that you are improving the engineering rather that just a strip and clean.
And and the clock is the best - Silence of the Cams.
Wow, the patience of grinding in 32 valves is amazing!! Brilliant work Allen. All the best, John.
Another wonderful video on the progress of the Norton V8 and your fab appreciation of Tracy’s delicious creations. Thank you.
Thanks Allan, perfect saturday, the master-engine-animals and cake, just perfect!!
Watching Alan work is therapeutic and relaxing for me. I can't wait to see this monster run again.
Glad to see your silver soldering not normal solder or brass to join the oil pipes nice work
These videos are a wonderful therapy for armchair engineers, as soon as an episode is out I'm on to it. I was however slightly puzzled by the use of copper pipe for the lube system. I thought that it hardens with age and can crack with vibration. But then I'm just an armchair engineer. Keep em coming Alan.❤
Аллен, Вы потрясающие переделки двигателей делаете! Браво!
A wonderfully intricate job assembling both cylinder heads for this engine, looks like artwork. Will be looking forward to the next episode, and best to you & Tracy, & don't forget the ever-present hedgehogs! Cheers from across the pond, Allen! Thanks so much for sharing this build with us all.
Hi Allen, brilliant feed pipe manufacturing, engine really coming along now. The start up will be epic. Alex.
After a pretty stressful week, that was so therapeutic. The twenty-five minutes fly by, The cake, garden wildlife and engineering, meld into a gentle whole. Keep your whale song, Alan is The Man!
That's wonderful progress Allen,Charley Weaver is happy and fresh banana cake as well,just perfect
Kimbo
A real masterclass, wood pigeons doing their thing, and a mouth-watering piece of banana cake. Just perfect ❤
I see a new AM video. I open it, click "like" and then "play".
I know I will never own a Norton, or work on one for that matter, but I'll be damned if I'm not super excited to see these videos in my feed every time..... I'll never use this information but for some reason I need it. 😂 Thanks Allen.... Great video as usual. 😁👍
Every time I watch your instalments, I want to rush into the garage and spanner one of my vintage bikes!
Nothing I enjoy more than working on my motorcycle in the shed when it’s raining.
Wonderful as ever and some hardcore junior hacksaw action to boot, epic!
Loving this series but can we have a return of the penknife scissors please as they are sadly missed.
Utterly bewitched whilst watching this. A huge thumbs up🎉🎉
I love watching you work on things it's great and peaceful
The copper pipe work was a stroke of genius Allen!!
40 mins of Rusty Beauties and then 25 mins of Alan, two cups of home brew coffee is the
start of a perfect day. Now, is the Austin Healey restoration going to be nice to me?
This is the best ASMR on the entire Internet 😊
Also, completely invested in the completion of the project now!
Always come away from Allen's videos craving cake.
Makes me hungry as well,commented ,while a cheese & tomato sandwich balenced in hand.
Another glorious episode. Wow, that vice has seen some action!
Allen, you have the patience of a saint. I struggle lapping in just two valves on my enfield!!
Sat here by the pool in Orlando, beer in one hand watching this while the world melts. Happy days.
Well, thats me sorted for another week....what patience AM has.....a lesson for us all!
I remember doing the Rover V8s and 23-2600 engines getting the shims were a pain but at the same time thereoputcal, great video Allan
Hello Mr Millyard, Please can you upload episode 13. We need another dose of your calming demeanour, amazing engineering, cake, Charlie.....and the clock.
Most of this goes over my head if I'm honest but I love watching Alan at work in his special environment The man is really a national treasure Many thanks Alan for your videos
Its all getting a bit exciting now Allen. I cannot wait to see and hear this beasty run. Oh, and if you're not allergic, a handfull of crushed walnuts in the banana loaf is a game changer Tracey 😉👍
Always nice to spend an afternoon with Mr. Millyard....
Better late than never... 😊
Nice quiet early ish start to a Sunday, proper coffee and a Mr Millyard episode. What could be better 👌🏍🏍🏍
Classic, and humble, and cake, as always. If only there were more people like this.
Such a skilled man, Norton are lucky to have him rebuild the bike.
It’s owned by the National motorcycle museum uk
@@AllenMillyard thank you for that information, I have been there many times. Must have survived the fire that took so many unreplaceable bikes from the fantastic collection.
I love these 10 minute videos! That's what they seem like as they are so absorbing and go by so quickly. Cheers Alan brilliant as usual to me as a mere mortal.
keep going on you tube to see if episode 13 is here really love this channel a bit of normality in a very odd world
Same here
Sorry I haven’t had time to edit ep13 but hopefully be up soon
@@AllenMillyard Thanks Al , looking forward to it.
I cannot wait for this bike to run. This is the most excited I've ever been for one of your projects.
Been looking forward to this episode all week. Nice work on the oil pipes and heads Allen, they look just perfect.
Thank You For Sharing Your Work & On Such A Rare Engine! Haven't Missed An Episode & What A Great Series!
My favourite Sunday Morning show with a nice cup of filter coffee.
Alan makes it all seems so easy😁🙏🇬🇧🍷
Charley knows a good job when he sees it. Just perfect. Thank you for sharing your remarkable skills Allen.
What a perfect example of drizzling!! The engine rebuilding interlude was quite good too
Bril!. Makes it look simple!. If I was doing this (not that I could) the 'swear tin' would be over flowing! 😅. Great job!.
Like an old time Sunday afternoon after dinner , so relaxing watching you work. Keep it up Allen
I started watching this sat standstill in traffic to Dartford crossing I was sadly torn away once people started moving but now I'm home il watch this to brighten up my day