cant you get a machineshop shortening it and use a lash cap?

Same here and not miserable at all ! The note that the HT3 was 100% original at first does make me scratch my head as why it got restored back to new. Have you seen the pictures of the show in Brno? Most Ariels unrestored showing their age and straight from the road, some over 90, almost 100 years, ...

Nev, Adrie, I posses an old British soul, meaning that my solution is going round in search of a problem. :lol: Yes, oil contamination can present a problem. I plan to construct small shields, partly attached to the outrigger plate and partly attached to the inside of the steel prim.chancase. (yes, ...

Hello Pete, Well....I am not sure! I suppose it is fixed in the hole next to the saddle spring lug, the one for the rear mudguard bracket. A very clever spot! because I never hear my own horn when it's up front :shock: :? At the nearside I think one should use a 'flat' horn bracket with a spacer beh...

Horn up front only works with a girder, but I guess you know that ?

Will try that in the coming days....... In the meantime.. I've been playing with the mini Alton generator. a few pictures of how I hope to get it working. Model C werk aan Alton Gen. feb (19).jpg spacer + front pulley behind sprocket, ESA twin lobe + spring can move free inside those. Alton generato...

The rocker box. (reader alert, section unfit for originality bum eyes, and professional moaners in general ! :lol: ) Although I have the original rockerbox I wanted to find out if I could use later rockers. Hmmm, it looks like they would fit. First task was altering later spindles, the diameter did ...

Thanks Dave ! that's a escape route

The Clutch. My Model C came with few parts from a original clutch. the basket and the clutch centre. Centre part needed the stud holes redone, welded them up and retapped the holes in a different position and made up new studs from some -I think- old Honda engine through bolts. I dunno much about ma...

Maybe obvious for a few of us but 'Ariel' is Ariel Atzori in Italy. (sorry Roger for me being pedantic....again )