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Blimey - how did he manage that? BTW in my 1970 I build a 1776 with full flow and ICT34s in the garage from an old 1300 beetlae engine bought cheap off ebay. Luckily the crank was OKs o I just polished it myself with the machine work done by a guy in a shed up near Dudley. I followed Wilson's...

The reason I ask is that I generally fit my own motorcycle tyres (if tubed) and don't bother balancing them - seems to work OK. Not like you're breaking any speed barriers with a T2..

do they obviously need balancing?

I read the story , there will have been limitations and exclusions to the warranty I'm sure.. The speculation by mechanoid doesn't sound unreasonable.. but sizing bearings correctly and setting endfloat is about as fundamental as it gets when building an engine.. It would be interesting to see...

..its better than my welding . I have an unmodified oil bath filter I was going to put on ebay.

Valve clearances? - worth eliminating

Ah right, thought I could make out a locating 'peg'. long time since I did the top end on one.. different on two strokes where you have to prevent ends snagging on ports. As you were..

Those markes appear to coincide with the ring gap - could that top ring be gapped incorrectly. Random guess obvs.

The water is being suck up from the bottom where it gathers - peraps sit in it and get someone to play a hose over each side to see if you can trace the point(s) of entry

Yeah I was thinkin that if all that weigh (flywhell) thas been banging around at the end of the crankshadft it might well have put it out of whack as well as ovalling teh holes.

Four posts in nine years - that's some going. :oops:

Hi Folks update.. the dip/main started working again - I think after a sharp tap on the relay with a screwdriver handle. But then side/rear lights failed. Pretty sure thi is not connected and the new problems is down to a faulty switch.. BTW am I right in thinking its the two LHS fuseways that...

Hi folks Beam was stuck in full but I pulled the switch (indicator/flash) stalk to check wiring and it switched to low..?? Now it's stuck low and I'm uncertain why. I replaced the relay several years ago and relocated it to slightly away from the fusebox and windscreen leaks. Looking at the...

In 1967, the City of London was looking for someone to buy a dismantled London Bridge. American entrepreneur Robert Paxton McCulloch placed the winning bid of £1.02 million ($2.4 million at the time) on 18 April 1968. Each of the bridge’s 10,276 exterior granite blocks were numbered and then...

Float them in some fuel and look at the differing 'plimsol lines' then try leaving them on the window sill for week or two to see if they 'dry out'

Don't open up the channel and try and 'crimp' it back on the glass. I did that, but only once.😩

It was hot at the weekend - that won't have helped, my oil light was flickering at a (very low) tickover too.

Agreed.. but it's more of a pita if you have twin carbs to manoeuvre the motor out of the bay plus you need a smooth flat surface to roll out the engine and a decent trolley jack and ideally a 'cradle'of some kind between the jack and the engine.. ..saying that it's hardly like working on a...

Ha ha seems to have worked! Bonza!! Thanks!!! As luck would have it I also found another 30a dynamo in the spares shed too. Time to do the lottery?

Also here for someone like me who needs explicit guidance..