Cleaning More Than Half a Century of Dirt and Grease!

 I had to use Kerosene to clean the parts! This process was the most time consuming

Pieces of the motorcycle in kerosene

Nitril gloves are necessary to handle the kerosene

Headlamp polished and ready to be primed

More and more bits of the motorcycle.

Dynamo

The Dynamo was in good working condition, I disassemble it, did some wiring work inside and cleaned it.

Lucas Dynamo with frame plates

Some before and after pictures of the magneto and Dynamo:

Lucas Magneto out!

Lucas Magneto

 The magneto was in good shape, except for a small dent somebody did to fit an asian carburettor. Also I had to do some soldering to the spark plug cable.

Engine out!

Really Beautiful Matchless 350cc engine!

 I took the engine out of the frame and covered the exhaust and intake holes with a rag and masking tape.

 Inside this metal cover there's the magneto chain.

A lot of dirty grease inside!

Oil pipes without the oil tank

Frame, forks, handelbar and wheels left!

I had to use these screwdrivers to hold the frame in place, since the frame is made of 2 separate parts.

MAtchless G3/L frame

Somebody soldered a big piece of metal onto the frame, I wonder why?

More Disassembling Pictures!

Gearbox still attached to frame

Seat with a really ugly faux leather cover

Matchless logo Bagdes

 These Bagdes I sent them to re-chrome, I didn't want much chrome in the motorcycle as I want to give it a military look, but these bagdes are too beautiful to not be chromed.

Old but original rubber tank knee pads

The original knee pads were in really bad shape, I got some new reproductions, but the quality has no comparision.