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I’ve been really lazy about riding for the past 9 months or so. Torn ligament in my shoulder prevented riding for most of the summer and then being too lazy to replace a 7 dollar part the rest of up till now. Finally got around to dropping the price of burrito on parts and I forgot how great my 73 Triumph ran. My motivation to ride is kicking back in.
Took the bike out on a quick ride this last weekend in the hills and everything is feeling good.
Top and bottom end rebuilt. The head need considerable work, but was done. The bottom end was pretty nice except for the sludge trap being completely full and it needed a new main bearing. Everything else looked good. the crank was in great condition.. still stock specs. New primary chain and replaced a washer in the transmission.
Going to be riding again in time for the rain!
The top end had pretty much anything fixed or welded possible but…. the bottom end is looking bad and needs a rebuil pretty much immediatley. The bike pulls strong, but the main bearing is making quite a bit of noise. Everything I own has ended up with a rebuild this year. It’s been an expensive year
Under all that caked on oil on the ’73 TR7RV was a head in terrible shape. Exhaust blowing up the front engine studs.. needs welding, head and cylinder need planning, cylinder needs to be bored out to .40 over, needs new valves and guides. There’s several other things but pretty much it’s going to cost more than twice what my last top end job cost. It had been run hard for a long time and tightened a down to prevent leaking and it shows.
With a bent frame on the BSA and me being too lazy to finish up the 63 right now (I’m just not motivated till something else is running good); it’s time to get the 73 holding more oil than it leaks. It’s been pissing oil for a while and only got worse so i stopped riding it a month or so ago. Originally thought it was the push rod tubes..it wasn’t..now I’m think it could use some head work. Taking it apart this week and theoretically going to turn this one around quick so I can get some riding in this summer.
I picked this up in trade and rode it home from Sacramento. I haven’t done much of anything to it except change the bars, tailight and put new rubber on it. It leaks a lot of oil from the front of the head or tappet blocks. There are no threads for the exhaust spigots to screw into at all. It was repaired poorly at one point. It runs great so I’m not in a hurry to fix it, but the head will likely have some work done on it when I get around to it.
