New panel flashes

Fitted these new panel flashes from ScootRS. Nice huh?

Also fitted yet another air hose. They don't seem to last long!

New stand

I've now fitted a new stand, completing the damage repairs from when it was knocked over in the street a few months ago. It's a stainless one from Scooter Republic. I had to seriously modify the stand brackets to fit the profile of my replacement cross member, using an angle grinder and trial-and error.

Photo to follow.

Cylinder kit

I bought a cylinder kit from Sundar Scoots this week. They seem like nice people, and the package arrived today in good time and very well packed up.

Michael at Sundar tells me the head is made by SIL and the rest of it is made elsewhere. The finish of the cylinder and piston looks excellent and exceeded my expectations. Here's a couple of pics:

Unfortunately the head is a completely different story, and its finish is pretty ropey to say the least. I'm not sure if my expectations are a little high and they're all like this, or whether I've been sent a duff one. I'm sending these pics to Sundar to see what they think. Look at the bent fin with the hole in it in this shot:

And in this shot (click to zoom in) you can see the rough finish generally.

The thread of the plug socket looks a little suspect too, but I'm not going to try a plug in it until I've heard from Sundar. If they're all like this then so be it, but surely not?

UPDATE: Sundar are sending me a new head, they were very apologetic about the quality of this one. Excellent service! I'll post up some pics when I get a chance.

Parts!

Here's some of the parts I've bought for the engine rebuild.



You can see a gasket set, oil seal set, large engine mounts, long engine mount bar, clutch discs and plates, chain guides, shims, o-rings, nuts and bolts and the rear bearing. For a lot of these parts I would normally nip round the corner to my local scooter shop Fanatic Scooters but I chose to rebuild my engine in the month of the year that they close! So I used MB Developments (or www.lambrettaspares.com) and Scooter Restorations. MB's delivery is speedy and efficient, but Scooter Restorations closed over the Christmas period and then they were let down by FedEx's glacial service, so my stuff took 18 days to arrive. On the plus side they did give me a nice free mug, and my orders since have been very quick.

For the end plate gear cluster bearing (6004 SKF), the drive-side bearing (6305 SKF) and the flywheel-side crankshaft bearing (NU205 ECP SKF Roller Bearing) I went to bearingboys.co.uk, where I saved myself a good few quid instead of using the lambretta specialists. There are lots of direct bearing suppliers on the web so it's worth shopping around.