BM250 Part 16(4)

[@VIVA4EVER2001]

As allways , I learn so much watching you Michael, many thanks.

[@robbiesavill5996]

Terrific Help theses films thankyou for putting so much effort in and making life easier than staring at manuals.

[@ronicard]

Exciting stuff. It's almost a 'motor'cycle again instead of just a cycle! :-) Great videos, Michael!

[@peterdriver4760]

It's coming along nicely have three Newcastle browns one for me😁

[@petefletcher]

I once had 2 Newcastle Browns for breakfast. It was many years ago though.

[@dereksmith5019]

The last SKF bearing i bought here in western Canada was made in China .

[@BritanniaMotorcycles]

I suppose we shouldn't be surprised. I will have to start looking at the ones I buy from now on.

[@dereksmith5019]

@@BritanniaMotorcycles Thanks for the reply , I love your videos . I've got a few years on you @ 73 . I own and ride a "65 AJS 350 , restored professionally , or I'd still be waiting for parts ! Derek

[@TheOldaz1]

Another great instructional video, thanks Mike. You mentioned in an earlier video about the adjusters at the swinging arm, I've been wondering why you wouldn't make them non-adjustable during the frame build, then add snail adjusters at the back? I imagine that would help with wheel alignment as you would be adjusting at the axle instead of in the middle of the bike?

[@BritanniaMotorcycles]

You would have to cut off the ends of the swinging arm and add plates with slots, or use another swinging arm. So it is just a case of working with the way BSA designed it.

[@63256325N]

The trans rebuild was fascinating, but I'm wondering why you didn't use any type of assembly lube? I have watched a fellow KZbin car trans re-builder and he always used a generous amount of a green assembly grease, the stuff would dissolve in the trans fluid, is there such a product for manual transmissions? Please forgive all my questions, just trying to pick up some new knowledge.

[@BritanniaMotorcycles]

The whole point of the videos is to get people interested in building something, and very much to show that there are always different ways to do things, particularly without masses of special tools. Also I use methods that I know work though there are other methods that also work. I have also found over the years that fashion plays a part. A specific tuning procedure is used and suddenly it become de rigouer for every job though it is probably unnecessary. I have a friend who ran his Montesa for a season without any oil in the gearbox (unknowingly) with no damage, maybe just luck but it just goes to show. Anyway, keep watching and asking questions.

[@63256325N]

Thanks for the reply. The story about the fellow that ran his bike with no trans oil reminded me that I did just about the same thing with the old rat BSA I had so many years ago. I had absolutely no knowledge of the machine I ran the primary with no oil in it for just about the entire summer, the only reason I discovered it is it started to howl, and I do mean howl! Rust dust hit me in the face when I removed the cover. Needless to say the chain was a bit stretched....oh, and ruined.

[@BMWDCK75]

Did I miss something,sand blasting,paint?

[@BritanniaMotorcycles]

Hello. Don't worry you are not cracking up. I didn't show the sandblasting as I send that out to be done by a local monument mason, and as for the painting, I didn't think that I could show much and there are better painters than me making videos. So I didn't film that bit.

[@thomaslemay8817]

On one occasion I was giving the task of removing a cast iron head that had been bronzed on to the engine block, you don't happen to know anything about that do you? Lollol

[@BritanniaMotorcycles]

At least the head gasket didn't leak.