This project is essentially done. In spite of a few setbacks this weekend, I got the Daytona started today. First, when I went to set the valve clearance, I realized that one of my pushrods had slip...

Static Timing In order to do final ignition timing with a timing light, the engine has to be running. To get it running, timing has to be close enough for the engine to start. That is the reason fo...

I decided to tackle the seat this week. The original seat was really tired and beat up. All those miles under my backside, much of it with a passenger, had taken its toll. There was an ancient tear...

Installing Chainguard I found installing the chainguard on this bike one of the most awkward and clumsy jobs in the project.  The mounting design looks like an afterthought with the funky little...

Coils get their connections, and a branch runs up to the condensers....

Even though I was feeling pretty good about the way the paint came out on the tank and fenders, I was totally intimidated by the idea of pinstriping. I watched a bunch of Youtube videos. I downloaded...

This bike was supplied new with Dunlop K70 series tires. I'd replaced them many years ago with K81 tires, and though they didn't have many miles on them, and they had plenty of tread left, they were...

  A lot of unanticipated work went into this assembly.  The geometry of the new body halves was different enough that I had some binding of the rotor when everything was tightened down. &nbs...

There is not much mechanically mysterious in the Triumph rocker boxes, but they do have a few wrinkles, and are subject to leaking in a couple of places. One potential leaking location is the gasket s...

First step was to build the dust excluder assenblies. This is really just installing seals and O rings. Apparently some time during '71, there were two seal designs. One was a conventional pressed-...