Finally finsihed off the rebuild of the front hub yesterday but I really only did this as a dry build to begin with as I wanted to test that all the parts were all fitting OK, the seem to be so I’ll dismantel the hub again tonight & rebuild it with heaps of grease.

Replaced all the barings & seals with brand new ones & thourghly re-greased everything that needed it.

New stainless steel nuts & washers plus all the metal parts were all regalvanised in zinc, so the whole hub looks 100% band new.

Left side

Right Side

Test fitting it to the wheel & forks went well, except I will have to strip down one of the wheel rims as one of the holes for the studs to go though is not aligned 100%.

Engine instal & cabling up next, stay tuned…

All parts in place now, time to start on the rebuild.

Parts ready.

Now that the engine is finished I can now check these out, this is just some of the sheets that are from the Innocenti Parts book, every single part that’s goes in a Lambretta is in this book.

The yellow highlights indicate parts that wee missing, quite a big list.

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So got the rear hub installed & all torqued up today.

Plus all the tinware that came back recently from being electroplated on the engine. Progress at last!

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Had a chance to get into the garage last night & earlier this morning, got a whole heap of little jobs done.

Forks:
I finally figuring out that the two sets if forks I have are both late Series 2 versions that were retrofitted in the factory to Series 3 standard.

One set, the ones that came with the Li project originally are a bit iffy so I decided to go with the ones on the SX, that’s become quite a good donor bike for the Li project.

So I tidied up the welds & ground off a few old S2 features, now they really do look like S3 forks + they already have damper mounts welded on.

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I had these Air Filter stickers custom made in white.

Originally I was going to simply scan & reprint but we ended up having to typeset it from scratch, looks great.

The reason for doing this was that the ones I had from Italy were in black type & you could not see the writing, also had running in sticker made up as well in white.

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Had the go out & buy an M12 die nut to retread the original axel for the front hub, damaged it on the un install.

All fixed now & dont need to use the SIL Indian one I bought just in case.

Quite a lot of metal shavings from it though!

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Got started on the front hub late this afternoon, took the old speedo drive off & cleaned up the wheel studs as they had paint on them.

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Did a test rebuild in the headset to make sure that everything fits when bolted on, the headset top is a NOS one I sourced from the UK, all fits nicely.

Now to pull it all apart again & start on the front hub rebuild.

My Lambretta SX150 has a few annomalies that I am trying to figure out, cant work out ifit was built in 1967 or 1968.

Horncast Badge: It has the crest badge on the horncast, not the rectangle version commonly seen on this model.

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Toolbox: Plastic Toolbox, more common on a GP than an SX, according to Dean at Rimini Lambretta in Italy the general opinion is that plastic toolboxes became the fitment in ’68, although typically with everything Lambretta there is no Innocenti data on this changeover.

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Side Panels: Panel Handles on the side panels

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Forks: Unfortunalty the original forks had been removed and a set of Series 2 forks put in but I was able to track down some original NOS SX150 Forks from Rimini Lambretta in Italy, they had some dampers welded on and sent them out to be chromed, came back a treat.

Forks that were on it:

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New forks from Rimini Lambretta
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