This one happened to me on the two ferries and a bottle of rum tour a few years back. About ten k’s before Opononi one of my throttle cables broke right at the twist grip nipple. It was dark so I carried on to the pub (I run a separate cable to each carb on …
Lots of ‘Repco’ type valve spring compressors don’t work for Trumpy heads and you don’t really need to fork out the coin for one if you have an ordinary carpenter’s clamp. Cut a piece of 25mm water pipe 75mm long. About 2/3’s of the way along drill a 10mm hole right through the pipe. Cut …
The OIF is the problem here, the rocker box had to be modified to get the motor to fit the frame, so instead of the stud that passes right through the rocker box on the 1970 and earlier 650’s a bolt is threaded into a stud that finishes inside the rocker box. British Spares market …
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Early seventies gearboxes use a leaf spring to index the selector cam plate, presumably cheaper to manufacture. It didn’t work very well and they went back to the pre 1970 sprung plunger later on. If the bottom of your gearbox has the long nut underneath the gearbox as in the photo on the left you’re …