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#Post#: 882--------------------------------------------------
Re: New member says hello
By: banquo Date: July 8, 2015, 5:03 am
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Couple of hours with a file perhaps?
Mine has the alloy ball ends with finger grooves, and in
starting a mammoth garage clear out (involving throwing nothing
away, but shifting stuff from one place to another... :-[), I
came across a spare one which looks the same, so they must be
correct.
When you say "too deep" you mean the body is too thick to got
between the flanges of the fulcrum; surely not, if it's 10mm too
big?
Is it worthwhile me relocating that spare and taking some
measurements for you?
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Re: New member says hello
By: cryospeed1 Date: July 8, 2015, 5:15 am
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Hi I am glad mammoth garage clear outs have the same result
everywhere. The other problem I find is how a recently made
space fills as if by magic.
I probably didnt explain very well about the levers. Its the
distance from the top of the lever where the cable slides in to
the pivot bolt . If I get a chance I will ask the suppliers if
they do the same lever in a range of sizes. I can use the
measurements from the existing levers already fitted,
#Post#: 884--------------------------------------------------
Re: New member says hello
By: nick949 Date: July 8, 2015, 5:28 am
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My bike fell over when I parked it on some loose gravel. Brake
lever snapped. It now wears one from a Honda something + quite
a while with a file. Works fine.
Nick
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Re: New member says hello
By: banquo Date: July 8, 2015, 5:41 am
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Hmmm. Never even thought about the difficulties encountered in
fitting levers.
I must have been lucky!
Would filling the pivot hole with weld, and drillling a new hole
10mm away work....?
Obviously, if the guy in Poland does different sizes, that's a
much better solution.
Back to the garage move around. Anyone want a NOS wooden parcel
shelf for a 1966 Rover P5, or a badge for the Falkirk & District
Motor Club? Or a heater blower from a Hillman Imp, or
carburtettor conversion for same. As for filling spaces, they
were throwing a pile of stuff out at work a few weeks back, and
I'm going, "You CAN'T throw all that away" so whatever space was
left was filled with a nice mahogany framed lab bench, an oxygen
resuscitation set, smoke alarms, hoses, tools and the most
useful of all, four large stacking plastic boxes....
Is hoarding of stuff that's too good to throw away, but for
which you have no use whatsoever a notifiable disease?
#Post#: 887--------------------------------------------------
Re: New member says hello
By: cryospeed1 Date: July 8, 2015, 8:12 am
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The original exercise was to find levers that could accommodate
a heavier duty front brake cable as the existing is made of
elastic. I have just had the carb to bits and cleaned it up a
bit as the bike refused to start earlier in the week.
#Post#: 891--------------------------------------------------
Re: New member says hello
By: cryospeed1 Date: July 20, 2015, 2:28 am
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Well the bike is still refusing to start although there is a
spark and fuel getting through. I am going to make up the device
for checking the timing as I think I may have disturbed this
when I removed the cam. My cam shaft that it sits on has a bit
of a wobble indicating it is a bit bent so I guess the points
gap is always going to be an approximation. At least some of my
other motorbikes seem to be responding to surgery. (Except the
Enfield)
#Post#: 897--------------------------------------------------
Re: New member says hello
By: banquo Date: July 20, 2015, 3:15 am
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On that subject, I did have the idea a few years back that the
special timing tool isn't really necessary. It's only needed
because of where the timing mark is positioned.
I had the idea that there is always part of ther flywheel
exposed below the cover, and it would be possible to find TDC on
compression, and scribe the wheel in the exposed part, deriving
timing marks from there. In that way, the timing can be checked
without removing the flywheel cover.
Hope you get it sorted soon; nothing worse than a bike that
won't go, but if it was working before, your diagnosis sounds
very plausible.
#Post#: 898--------------------------------------------------
Re: New member says hello
By: cryospeed1 Date: July 20, 2015, 5:29 am
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Whilst cleaning up the timing marks on the flywheel I noticed my
engine sprocket has a tooth broken off. Does anyone know of a
likely source please or are these fairly easy to get hold of.
Thanks
#Post#: 900--------------------------------------------------
Re: New member says hello
By: cryospeed1 Date: July 20, 2015, 2:53 pm
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I made up the timing tool and the bike is now running again so
it must have been a bit out. Just the engine sprocket now!
#Post#: 905--------------------------------------------------
Re: New member says hello
By: banquo Date: July 22, 2015, 3:49 pm
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Depressingly, I've never seen an engine sprocket for sale.
Might be worth trying some of the suppliers in the links
section.
Failing that, perhaps Talon could make a toothed ring to weld
onto your hub, with the existing teeth machined off, although
that would be a last resort I guess....
I wish we could find out what happened to those truckloads of
spares that were spirited away from the auction in Serbia.
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