Tjis week i’ve only done some small things due to busy working. I picked up this rear rack from a parts fair and I thought it would suit the scoot well with the double single seats and all.
I also added an exhaust. This one came as a spare when I bought my other Lambretta. It is in good state and also came with a exhaust manifold. I had bought another manifold that I’ve already fitted but it was angled way to much and thus didn’t fit the bike. Lucky me I had another original one to spare.
Now it was time to add the cowling. I quickly realized it couldn’t go on without me removing the exhaust manifold.
Since I had to unscrew it to get the cowling on I thought I might as well try the trick I read about in a Lambretta forum thread about using the chain guide locking washer.
I found my old locking washer, I hadn’t discarded it to the bin yet.
Cut it in two pieces and widened the hole so it could be added through the studs.
Said and done, added it first, then a spring washer and finally the nut, of course with the cowling rattling loosely close by making it almost impossible to reach the hidden nut.
Then with a screwdriver I turned one of the lips up and the exhaust nuts will hopefully stay in place. This is probably something I will have to do to my other bike. When its parked I can see a tiny drop of oil/gasoline on the garage floor. Hadn’t cared so much about it since it was such a little amount.
Today I took the engine out of the frame so I can more easily work on it. It looks like it’s definitely been stored in a barn sometime under it’s life since I found hay on it!
The engine also showed a crack on a stud for the crankcase cover. I saw the same on the rear brake hub, I figure some former owner must have dropped the bike while trying to change rear tire, or it was that now famous repainter.
Hopefully I can weld the aluminum case so I can rebuild the metal around the thread and if the hub is nice and strong otherwise I can still use it. Since Spanish ones are dead hard to find and Indians are mostly ok I prefer to keep my original.
The whole point of this resto is to not unnecessary throwaway stuff that actually does still work fine.
The exhaust is in a really bad shape. It has surface dirt and rust on it.
The battery has been leaking sometime in the past, a couple of decades ago, and it has left white marks on the engine mounts, exhaust, kick, battery tray and other things in it’s way.
The kick and exhaust.
The leak on the engine mounts and other parts.
Same surface dirt on the manifold.
The complete removed exhaust, I dont know if it is possible to clean out and reuse. There is no fracture or part missing, just dirt and rust.
Lambretta TV175 Series 3 