Reba

Everyone loves a good fireball...

Barrel was also given a rebore to +20 and matched to my low compression Tiger pistons. I'm now pondering on whether to get the head stove enamelled black like the rocker covers, cylinders and crankca...

Next picture is with the input spindle installed and the worm gear and magnet pressed on. I realized one thing in looking closely at these parts. I've often heard that if a speedometer or tach inner...

Put the faces and pointers back on , and now it's time to calibrate.  I built a jig to hold the instrument, a variable speed drive motor, and an optical tachometer.  The stand is from a litt...

There is also a little foam cushion that goes in the bottom of the can....

The instrument lights are pretty crude little lamp holders that snap into the back of the instrument cans. They were grungy, and one of the hot wires had broken off the internal lamp contact, but the...

Working on a few miscellaneous things recently, including the chain guard. Forgot to take a before picture of the chainguard, but it was basically intact with the paint tired and dull, and the inside...

It seems pretty well established in Triumph lore that long about the late 60s, there was a bit of a mixup in a redesign of valve trains. Prior to the redesign, rocker arms were drilled to route oil t...

Head is away getting same treatment and should be back next week. What do you think??  ...

I painted a car once many years ago, so I knew some of the basics, but painting materials and techniques have come a long way since then. My experience was with one-part acrylic lacquer and a high pr...

The tank was a little different. It had a few little dents, probably mostly from road debris, but since there is no access to the inside, they had to be filled....

To hold up the tank and fenders, I adapted three cheap Harbor Freight adjustable roller stands by taking the rollers off, adding plywood cradles made for each item, and putting the stands on wheels....

Here is where one of my main concerns was. I had to mask for the black paint, but only had a few small pictures to go by.   Let me digress here for a minute. When I searched the Internet...

Initial polishing. The pieces will get another thorough polishing before installation....

Here is the tail light assembly housing after I had already stripped and painted it. I think the original color might have been silver, but I like it black much better....

Buttoned everything up......

  Well, I've ...

So I've been saving up my money for the exhuast system for the Daytona. The 30-odd year old Dunstall mufflers on the bike, while not rusted through, were pretty much just chrome containers full of ru...