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Triumph Daytona T100R
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Instruments Pt. 3
With all the parts being brass, soldering is the obvious way to fix the nested tubes into the hole:...
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Triumph Daytona T100R
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Instruments Pt. 2
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...
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Triumph Daytona T100R
Moto Blog • 2d ago
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Instruments
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...
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Triumph Tiger 750
Moto Blog • 4d ago
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Another shot of the front forks in place with the 'dodgy' handlebars
Front fender will be held in place using brackets of the existing bottom fork metalwork. The original KTM Duke fender was a close fitting hugger that would look terrible (and won't fit). I should be a...
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Triumph Daytona T100R
Moto Blog • 5d ago
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Foot Rests Pt.2
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...
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Triumph Daytona T100R
Moto Blog • 6d ago
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Foot Rests
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...
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Triumph Daytona T100R
Moto Blog • 1w ago
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Fuel Tank Part 5
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...
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Triumph Daytona T100R
Moto Blog • 1w ago
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Fuel Tank Part 4
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...
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Triumph Tiger 750
Moto Blog • 1w ago
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More to come.....
OK - finally had some time before the 6 Nations rugby started to get the bike off the stand, sit down, twist the imaginary throttle and make Vroom Vroom noises (if you tell me you don't&nb...
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Triumph Daytona T100R
Moto Blog • 2w ago
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Fuel Tank Part 3
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....
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Triumph Daytona T100R
Moto Blog • 2w ago
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Fuel Tank Part 2
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...
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Triumph Daytona T100R
Moto Blog • 2w ago
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Fuel Tank
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....
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Triumph Daytona T100R
Moto Blog • 3w ago
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Tires Part 2
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....
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Triumph Tiger 750
Moto Blog • 3w ago
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Back wheel offered up to check clearances
Disc and sprocket to be fitted but I couldn't wait to see the wheel on the swing arm....
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Triumph Tiger 750
Moto Blog • 4w ago
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Wheely Good News
Wheels are back - Yay! They are just as I hoped they would turn out - well pleased. Front wheel is a KTM hub on a 19 x 1.85 rim with a 110/80 B19 TKC80 Conti Twinduro Tubeless tyre....
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Triumph Daytona T100R
Moto Blog • 4w ago
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Fuel Petcock
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...
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Triumph Tiger 750
Moto Blog • 4w ago
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Hello...
Today I refitted my sludge tube and when it cam to refitting the screwed plug my replacement plug went in very easily - too easily in fact and has ended up deep in the thread....
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Triumph Daytona T100R
Moto Blog • 4w ago
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Oil Filter Part 2
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...
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Triumph Daytona T100R
Moto Blog • 4w ago
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Oil Filter Part 1
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...
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Triumph Tiger 750
Moto Blog • 5w ago
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Hopefully I won't need a new set, but nothing ever goes to plan does it!
As for the head - it's in quite a poor state, with existing damage to the right hand exhaust port. It's being blasted at the moment to check for further hidden damage but as a TR7 head is quite rare I...
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