Had some time in the last few days to install the front fender.  I'd previously had the stays rechromed since they had rust spots showing through.  Also replated the stay bracket hard...

After getting most of the wiring squared away, I turned to the contact breakers today. Though going to some kind of breakerless electronic ignition is a very popular mod to these bikes, I've decided...

I had previously refurbished the original wire harnesses on tjis bike by removing what was left of the woven loom and replacing it with an expandable braided sleeve material with heat shrink at the jo...

Now that I have the tank painted and pin striped, it still won't be truly complete until the Triumph badges are mounted. The badges are chrome plated die cast pieces screwed to either side of th...

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...

  Well, I've ...

Buttoned everything up......

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....

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

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...

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....

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....

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...

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

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...

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...

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...