Hi Brian, although I have cleaned the carb on several occasions I never checked the numbers, it will be my next step.

Tony.

Thanks for your interest Dave, I changed the 2 centre seals and the offside seal. The nearside looked in very good order.

Tony

I completed the resto on the bike including new rings on the pistons, the bores were in very good shape. All this was achieved for just over a grand and around 600 pleasurable hours of graft. However, it proved to be extremely hard to start and would only run on a high throttle opening.

This ...

Hi guys, just putting my stripped engine back together and noticed one of the clutch plates has the cork wearing off in a couple of places. If anyone has a serviceable plate anď would like to sell it to me, please get in touch with me. Any help would be very much appreciated.

Tony

Many thanks for your support guys, I cracked it, I found a chrome plated steel tube from an old vacuum cleaner, about 2'-6" long x 1 1 /2" dia. Over the end of this I fitted a huge 5' long x 35mm socket, which I bought to undo the nearside flywheel bolt. The 1/2" drive fitted nicely over the Allen ...

I don't know what's happened to my last post, I can't find it so here goes again. Thanks for all your replies about crankshaft nearside bolt. I solved the problem by making a strap spanner from a length of 1" x 1" oak ( yes you've guessed it, I am a retired carpenter/builder) with a length of ...

Thanks for your message Johnny. Would that be an AF spanner or perhaps a UNF? I don't want to get the wrong one.

Can someone tell me the correct spanner size for the nearside flywheel bolt, leader? It measures 1 3\8" across the flats. My spanners finish at 1 1\4" so I need to source one to fit. Any tricks to hold the flywheel would be appreciated. At present I am trying to make a strap spanner.

Tony.
62 speed ...

Thanks Simon, how will I know which wires go where?

Tony

Hi Simon, my 59 leader had admiralty grey where yours has ivory. This included the brake pedal, rear mudguard and footrests. My handlebars are plain alloy. I cleaned them up and sprayed them silver just to tidy up. I have changed to ivory, much nicer. The handlebar cover should also be ivory.

Hope ...