Hello all, I just entered the realm of Royal Enfield owners by buying a 1959 Indian Chief, The bike seems complete, and well cared for, but I hope to restore and bring back to original specs and detail the entire bike.
Not only is this my first RE, it's my first bike period! I've wanted a classic bike for a long time, saw this one and decided it was the bike, and now was the time, so I took a 3200 mile round trip to pick it up in CO, and now it's in it's new home. Needless to say, I'll have a lot of questions I'm sure.
As it sits, I was told the motor in it is a 1965 750cc Super Meteor motor, and I also have the original 700 complete which needed some gearbox work. Numbers are as follows:
original motor #PC 50368 gearbox #AM756 case number-(C163)
motor in bike #YB16673 gearbox #ACD111 case number-(AG72136)
So what do the experts out here think? Anything (besides the seat and motor) not look correct? Thoughts, ideas?
I will try to include some photos, The first is the bike, duh? The second and third are related to my first question about the bike.
There is oil tube that runs from the lower left side of the case and looks to go into the top of the resevoir. I assume this is a return? On the original motor, it is just that simple, goes from block and is attached at the top of the oil resevoir (see picture 2). On the motor in the bike however (pic 3) it also has a fitting where it goes into the block with a tube on it that then is just open and hangs off the back of the motor. My problem is that while trying to start it, a good deal of oil belches out of this tube! Doesn't seem like an intended result since oil is a pretty important thing to keep in the motor! Should that tube be there? Could I put the fitting from the original motor on this one with no tube? Any idea why the difference?