Featured Bonneville T120 1972 Rebuild

Boxes of dirty, forgotten, parts. Looks familiar, good luck!

 

Great ! The more resto threads the better . Will look forward to following your progress and wish you and your project well . Goes without saying theres some very knowledgeable guys on here and I have certainly received good advise along the way . Did you buy your bike in bits ? or have I missed the story somewhere .

 

A very nice bike to have been left and will certainly be a very special bike in more ways than one when back on the road .

 

Well, clearly, good taste runs in the family. We'll be watching with great interest and admiration! Good luck.

 

Plenty of pictures with your progress @Karenh and I look forward to following this

 

Ya, just a bunch of parts in boxes, just like yours.I got it at a flee market for 400.00 dollars. Unlike you I had no information about the history of the bike...it was a leap of faith. I was looking for a winter project and hadn't done anything like a rebuild before. It was the first time I heard of a sludge trap and that's where my journey started. It was a interesting, challenging and rewarding process always wondering if I forgot something, or misinterpreted some directions. A lot oh anxiety the first time you turn the key and give it a kick. I'm sure your dad is smiling...

 

You'll do fine, and your right there is a lot of knowledge on this site and a willingness to share. darkman was particularly helpful to me, and others as well.

 

Great news that you are going to restore the T120

 

Good luck...your going to need it when you find there is a crucial part missing...which there usually is, luckily most bits can usually be found,
If you trained as a mechanic then you should have no problem...unless of course it was recently in which case you will just know how to use a diagnostic machine and replace bolt on parts.
Keep us all posted on your progress and you will always get plenty of help from all the nostalgic old gits here who remember what its like to ride these bikes.

 

Are you going to split the crankcase? while you have it partly disassembled i would check the mains and big end shells and also clean the sludge trap.

 

Looking good

 

if you have access to welding kit, just weld a small bolt to the sludge trap plug and the heat will break the inevitable Loctite bond and make removing it far easier. unless it has been out before and has been replaced with a hex plug type in which case you only need the heat.
have fun with the build I have just finished a T140D and about to start a 73 T140V