Faffing Fiddly!

Progress is being made despite Yamaha’s book of myths and legends that stump our Scoop!

I’m beginning to think my never ending association with Project Stinger may have prejudiced my feelings towards restorations.

With the Suzuki, if anything could go wrong it generally did but (rotor removal aside) I’m actually making better than expected progress with the 1970 street scrambler. The front guard mentioned in the last report went together okay even if one of the U-shaped mounting brackets was totally and utterly different from its three siblings. Rather unhelpfully the parts book gives no name or reference number for the brackets so I’m stuck with what I have. And missing part numbers allied to some questionable drawings and misinformation is, apparently, this month’s reoccurring theme.

With the guard and wheel in place, I tackled the rear-end and it all went together swimmingly but I kept having this nagging doubt that I’d missed out something. Two days later it dawns on me there’s no rear sprocket on the hub which is a fairly crucial component. Digging through my box of used parts I found one and attempted to fit it but without success. The CS3C runs four-bolt-hole steel sprockets so the six-holed aluminium one in my hand won’t fit: where this toothed interloper came from I have absolutely no idea. I mention my situation to spares guru Andy Tempest at Webbs of Lincoln while I’m ordering up some float bowl gaskets. Amazingly, he has one in stock and I can have it for £15 plus postage rather than the frankly outrageous £78 Yamaha now reckon a new one is worth. It gets bolted to the cush-drive with some thread lock and new tab washers from Yambits.