So, when I cracked the cases there was some evil looking gunge that looked like rotted aluminium in the triangular void at the front of the engine....

The exposed sides of the tank and cover were painted with about six coats each of black and clear lacquer, hand rubbed after each three coats. This series shows the progression of the final finishing...

The exhaust adapters…………Tri-Angle Metal Fab made the rough blanks, I bored them, notched them, and took some material off of the outer surface. They press into the heads and the Factory Metal Works pi...

 In parallel with the oil tank I was also working on the tool cover of similar shape that goes on the other side of the bike. There is no earthly way to do a good job stripping, cleaning, or pai...

Some questions.....   The main crank bearing came out (as it should) with the crank, but needs to be replaced. I've been advised to keep it in but the timing side bearing is likewise shot and I...

Cleaned up and repaired the oil tank and the tool cover, and got them mounted. The tank looked to be in decent shape. It had cracked and been repaired once many years ago. You can see the brazed re...

  Hello It's a miserable dank and wet afternoon and so I'm in the man cave pondering on things. Today I'm about to split the cranks having finally pulled all the gears and drive sprockets off t...

Oil tank is in, tank has a fresh coat of paint, Front Street bars look great, rear fender trimmed up, and the custom made seat fits perfectly....

Here we have some advance photo's from the shop that's doing my frame mods as described in some detail above.... The new bash plate and USD forks in place  ...

The frame came back from Autobahn Body Works. Vic (son of Shiv) did an awesome job spraying the BMW Jet Black, it looks like a brand new ’71 T100....

Started on some of the electrics, among other things. This and many other Triumphs use separate ignition systems for each cylinder--separate points, condensers and coils.  This obviates the need...

I just looked at the pictures and the condition of the hulls is not as bad as it looks on the screen, honestly. There's another weld on the underside of the cases, which won't be visible on final asse...

Ready to take this puppy home. ...

I’ve seen these guide/guards built around the rear cheater sprockets on a few old sleds. I know that back in the days these bikes were raced chain quality was pretty poor, and riders routinely carried...

Time to button up the engine for insatll into the waiting frame. Just the clutch and primary cover left to do. Installed new clutch plates and pressure plate. The clutch was really the only thing w...

OK - T140V Feb 1976 engine arrived a few days ago and work commitments prevented my even unpacking the boxes. On first look over the engine seems OK but will need a lot of work. From looking at the bi...

I've been dabbling on the Daytona for the last few weeks.  I still work full time, and have had to travel quite a bit recently, so quality shop time is limited. I got the timing cover cleaned up...

Stripped the old paint off the Daytona frame over the last couple of nights....

Next, to the spindles. People who have bikes that leak from the spindles maybe wouldn't know, but since the spindles are steel, the exposed end will rust if there is no oil on it to protect it. Assu...

At it's deepest it is 68.3 mm so that's about 31 mm from pad face to rear of calliper. Regards...