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...

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

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...

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...

With all the parts being brass, soldering is the obvious way to fix the nested tubes into the hole:...

  After the pointer needle (what was left of it) was pried off, the dial came off by drifting out the center keepers of the two small reusable plastic rivets.  This reveals the internal mech...

I pulled out the speedometer and tachometer a couple of weeks ago to try to decide what to do about them. They are both the original, stock instruments that came on the bike. The speedometer was in...

After all the cleanup and painting, installed on the bike, they didn't look right. Both front footrests were angled up at five degrees or so, surely the result of a number of minor spills I took over...

The forward footrests on my Daytona are fixed, while the rear (passenger) ones fold up to be vertical when not in use. The rear pegs mount to the bracket that supports the mufflers. Since this bike...

After I posted the above, I got a couple of messages that I had overlooked one potential source of leaks. The way I plugged the filler neck with an expanding stopper put the filler neck joint outside...

The leak was where the rear mounting tab was welded to the tank. It looked like an incompete weld, or a weld may have pulled loose or cracked. This would likely be a high stress area, and it's possi...

The only other oriface in the tank is for the fuel petcock. To eliminate as many external sources of leaks as possible, I decided not to use the petcock, but use a simple hose barb adaptor instead....

Now it is just rust to deal with. There are a lot of ways to remove rust from steel. One way is acids. Strong ones like muriatic (hydrochloric), or weaker ones like phosphoric, acetic (vinegar), ci...

I'm getting ready to paint the tank and fenders. To ramp up to this there is all the standard sheet metal prep work, but before that, I wanted to make sure the tank was in good enough shape to use....

  First put on the rim strips, aligning the hole with the valve stem hole in the rim.  On the back wheel, it's necessary to cut holes for the rim locks....

This bike had an Ewarts dual push-pull petcock that combined the main and reserve valves into a single unit. It had been leaking badly when I last rode it 30 years ago, and I'm sure whatever fuel was...

A couple of days of off-and on work later, I had this. The filters (I can use either of the smaller diameter filters) have a 3/4-16 thread, so that's what the threaded nipple is. The nipple goes int...

Triumphs of this era didn't have true oil filters.  What Triumph called filters in the sump and in the oil tank are really just coarse screens.  The only real provision for removing par...

Ok……wiring is definitely not my strong point……..I can tig weld two razor blades together, but can’t solder worth a shit, have always gone to the local hardware store for blister packs of crappy connec...