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...

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...

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...

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...

  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...

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....

Disc and sprocket to be fitted but I couldn't wait to see the wheel on the swing arm....

  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....

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...

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....

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...