Right today, something really interesting for you.
And today, we're going to talk about this Scott which is a Scott Flying Squirrel.
1937 or '38 can't remember when now. It's one that was found in a barn. It was sold at an auction.
And it's been off the road over 20 years. Now we're going to cover this one in a different way.
Something different because the time it takes to do like the filming today, I'm going to do
short little bits of filming in the workshop as this project comes along. Basically it's got to
be recommissioned. Now we need to take the sidecar off which we'll probably do today,
and put the solo up on the bench. So right, the engine. Scott 600, two-stroke. Something different
for us to do here. I know we've done a Bantam. But Scotts were very advanced, I mean back in the
30s before the war. This is '37, I remember now. She's twin cylinder, parallel twin. Water jackets,
so she's water cooled. Very similar to what people see in a Japanese bike,
a TZ Yamaha racing bike. So you have here a very powerful two-stroke engine. Pilgrim pump.
We have on here, we have fuel and petrol. And we have, basically it's mixed in the engine,
it's a very primitive setup. We'll go into that as we take the bike down.
But the oil is a drip feed through the pump. It supplies through the crank. It's thrown inside
the engine. It mixes in the engine, so there's a lubrication. So we've got two separate tanks here.
Very nice radiator, honeycomb.
There's a name for that, I can't remember what it is quite, but it's like a honeycomb.
Foot change, not hand change, foot change. And we have some nice features on here. If you look
at the horn here we've got the squirrel on there. It's a bike that's not been
molested. It's still very much how it would have been when it left the factory.
We've even got the original toolboxes on here which are half metal, half leather. This one
isn't so bad, but this side I'm afraid the mice have got into it. It's got the single adult chair.
So in the day, Dad would have been on the sidecar, probably Mum would have been in there,
or the son maybe, or the daughter, and someone else on the back. So the chair itself, it's all
in fairly good order. The screen obviously with the sun is slightly damaged so we're going to get
a new screen for it. But the canvas, this should all clean up. We're not going to stretch it out
today but I think once we get that treated and get it warmed up it will work. We've got a little bit
of work to do on the buttoning down but here, I've undone it so you can have a look inside,
here would be... obviously going on holiday you put your luggage in the back, but there would have
been a small battery in here. I should think it's still six volt. It wouldn't have been converted.
This on the side here is a voltage regulator. So the battery would have been there, small storage.
So we'll close that up. We need to replace all these straps. We're not going to over restore
this. It's going to be a recommission. But we'll put new tyres on, and we'll clean the paintwork
up. We don't want to lose any of those features because if you restore something, I feel that
it loses something. This has blemishes, and knocks and things, and that tells a story. It's better
to keep it as it is really. Right so how you get into the sidecar. We've got a catch here.
Right I'm not going to force anything because it's...
And we just lift this up. And you would just step in there and the seat has obviously been
re-covered. I should imagine this part is original here. But that's going to stay as it is.
It's fairly good. All the woodwork, this is actually this is, it's only got little bits
of wood on it actually in here. I think it's all in fairly good order. But I say,
we'll have the sidecar off. We'll more than likely have the the actual chair off the chassis as well.
That is the steering damper which has obviously got to be sorted out. Just a friction damper.
And this will go down through the top here
and you put tension on basically your friction washer down below. It puts pressure onto the
steering head. And we'll talk briefly about the front of it in a moment.
So what we have, we have girder forks.
Now girder forks, they give you a nice ride, really nice ride. Because what you'll find is it's
the frame that moves. The forks don't move. If I'm pushing that down you'll see that the whole,
all of this is moving, but the forks don't move. It's gives a lovely ride. It works with friction
washers on both sides. There's a friction washer in there, and you have a big spring up the centre.
It's a bit like a monoshock really. But it does give you a lovely ride, especially with a sidecar.
Other things to talk about really, it's got sensible lighting too.
That's still original. We have the the crinkle glass. And that's a nice feature. It hasn't
been replaced. And what's nice about this bike is I wouldn't think anything really has been
replaced. It's the original rims. The tyres, they've perished, we can put new tyres on like
I mentioned just now. But the tin wear, it's not rusted away, you know. And the radiator,
the honeycomb rad, you know, it's not knocked about and hopefully it won't leak,
But what we'll have to do, obviously have the wheels out. Obviously we'll do the tyres.
We'll probably put new brake shoes in here. And you know, it'll look nice when it's done.
But we've just got to make sure, and what I'm going to say to people is,
my knowledge on a Scott at the moment, I've never worked on one before. So I need to do my research
before we do anything really, I need to get as much information as possible before we start
pulling it down. We've got to know about the sealing of the water jackets with their cork.
And as I mentioned about two-strokes having seals, we don't know what type of seals that's
got in there. I think it's probably early, it's too early to have like your normal oil seal,
lip seal. I might be wrong, but I need to do the research. We need to know how far we need to go
with that. Also because it's got a pilgrim pump we need to make sure the awning is correct. Probably
when we first fire this up, we'll probably put a pre-mix in the petrol tank just to make sure
it's got lubrication before we trust the main part of the lubrication through this pump,
lubing the engine. But I think it will make a nice bike. I can see one thing missing here.
We've got a tap here which is the oiling, and that oils down into the crankcase. But it's also,
there's a T-piece here with a dial here, so you can obviously regulate a flow.
Now that might well be an oiler for the chain here, which runs to the gearbox on this side,
and maybe there's also a drip to the rear chain. I don't know, but that is missing.
We need to research that. But it kicks over, we'll just kick it over. And we have compression.
So I would say it's a good engine. It's not going to be a massive amount of work. As long as
there's no leaks, and we know the pump's okay, we'll clean the carb out. The dynamo,
we'll probably send that off to a chap I know. He'll run through that and he'll make sure it's
working okay, and give us a guarantee on that. And also he'll reconditioned the voltage regulator.
It's worth getting that done because I've got a feeling the guy wants to take this to Ireland. So
he wants to do a bit of touring around, so we want it right. But it'll clean up. It's a nice bike.
Okay so what we're going to do, first of all we'll put some bits of wood underneath the solo,
underneath the motorcycle, because once you've detached the mounts it's going to fall over. And
there's no stand so we can't flip the stand down. And then we need to soak the bolts. I need to
undo the wiring. Then we can part the chair from the solo. So that's what we're going to do.
We need to soak all the fasteners. There's four points of contact here really. Got
one, two, three, well sorry, one, two, three, and four. That's the stabilizer.
Also we need to just mark where it's fitted because when we
fit the chair back on, we must make sure we get it set up correctly.
So what we need to do next is we need to disconnect the wiring from the motorcycle
to the chair. I just looked at a loom, there's quite a lot that goes through. I don't want
to damage that. We're going to disconnect it in here, because all we've got in here is the voltage
regulator basically, and there'd be a light wire that goes to the back light which is down there.
So that's the easiest way, and then we can drop the cables out the bottom. Good idea just to,
because on the regulator here the wires aren't colour coded to what they normally should be,
so just use your phone, take a photo, it will help when you come to put it back together.
So one thing we don't want to do is lose anything of the originality to it because
you cut the wiring, you put a joiner in, and it hasn't been done
so let's try and keep everything to a minimal really, what we're cutting or
removing. So it's easier just to take this regulator off and take the wires off.
Okay so I'm going to take the chair off now. Bearing in mind, old British bike,
always make sure you've got the right tools. Whitworth spanners, and something like this is
5/8 Whitworth, big spanner, combination. So undo the back nut here, and we'll just work through it.
But yeah, don't try and do it with AF spanners. You can get these,
Whitworth spanners, they're quite available through the right channels. So yeah, off we go.
Okay so Scott's on the bench, as a solo. So we've taking the sidecar off. And considering probably
it's never been off the sidecar before the fittings actually came undone okay.
A little bit awkward. We had to disconnect the wiring first, and pull it away from the solo, but
she's on the bench, and I think now we need to, well I need to finish some other jobs first,
and we need to just do a bit of research, pick up the workshop manual, parts list,
and just have a good look at it now it's on the bench, and see where we're going with it.
But it's going to be a nice job. It's going to be interesting and nice to see a two-stroke you know.
And especially the sidecar because I haven't ever seen a Scott and sidecar combination before. So
it's going to be quite nice to do this. So yeah, not a full restoration, recommission, and we'll
keep all the original features. We don't want to lose that because that tells a story and it's a
survivor. It's 1937, so we're going to keep it as much as it is now. New tyres, and go for it like
I've already said to you. But yeah, been a really good day. So thanks for watching and we'll see you
next time. I'll keep you updated on anything that I do in the workshop like I mentioned earlier.