Hunter, My motor is at Moto International in Seattle, and they sent out the block to be machined, so unfortunately I can't describe how it's done. The other required mod is that oil feed holes have to be drilled in the main bearing carrier. The '74 Eldo I had back in the '70's also had a 4 leading shoe front brake. It was different from any other Eldo's I've seen in that it had Amal carbs, the gear change was on the right (up for first and down to change up), and it had higher gearing than standard (although I don't know what the rear end ratio was). This was in Canada, though, so they might have had different models than those sold in the U.S. Brian
Hunter Jones wrote:
Brian,
Sounds like you are going all out! I've got an 850-T wheel on the back of my Eldo as well and for the same reason: cush drive. The only hangup is I have a 4 leading shoe front brake and the T brake is a dual leading shoe. This gives me great brakes but only going forward! They don't hold well when facing uphill and the bike wants to roll backwards. It's a minor thing though. I also like the idea of having an oil filter. I'd be interested to know how you did that.
Hunter
At 10:51 PM 3/9/2001 -0800, you wrote:
Hunter, Thanks again for your comments, from which I now THINK i know what is going on with this ignition system. I just did not understand why the pitch of the worm gear was changed so radically if the distributor speed
was the same (between Eldo and T-3). My only question now is to ask whether there will be sufficient room to fit 2 coils under the tank. With my Eldo project I am trying to build a bike with modern performance with the good old loopframe charm. I had an Eldo back in the
'70's which I loved, although I thought the braking was poor. So, when I
was looking for an Eldo to restore, I looked for a disk brake model, which I found last year. Aside from the 1000 cc kit and the B-10 cam, I have had the block machined to take an internal oil filter, and will use
a T-3 pan in place of the old pan. I have also gotten an 850-T rear wheel with a cush drive, which should be easier on the splines and transmission. Right now I am waiting for the engine to come back from the shop and for the painter to finish with the body parts. I will let you know how it all turns out, but until then I'm sure I will have more questions from time to time.