Hi, Me again....
whilst I`m at the computer, here are some nice piccies of my alloy brake plates.They seem to be of good quality. I sourced them on Fleabay, so i do not know who made them originally.Can anyone identify them?.They have nicely bushed cam bosses and decent stainless fittings save for the crappy "cut to size" piece of wire gauze for the air scoops.There`s even fingerprints in the alloy from the guy who fettled the moulds!!
My observations are:
1) no clearence between the spring box lower FF16AS and the edge of the brake plate- (judicious filing of the plate will sort it)
2)mudguard stays need to be spaced outwards 1/4" or so to clear rear scoop and retaining nut for shoe pivot pin (expected)
3) mysteriously, the cam bush bosses are unequal length?-one is a tad short -leaves end float in the cam to be shimmed out, and the other too long by 1-1.5mm,(see piccy) would jam the cam if nut tightened.Am I missing something here? i.e. is it for a longer cam to provide clearence around air scoops/speedo cables etc, or just poor finishing?
4) the redundant boss on the nearside plate,(blue cross in piccy) used for the speedo drive mount on the other side, is hard up against the inside of the fork leg when wheel is fitted to forks-will rub off paint at very least-I intend to remove metal from it to achieve some clearence-any observations ?
whilst I`m at the computer, here are some nice piccies of my alloy brake plates.They seem to be of good quality. I sourced them on Fleabay, so i do not know who made them originally.Can anyone identify them?.They have nicely bushed cam bosses and decent stainless fittings save for the crappy "cut to size" piece of wire gauze for the air scoops.There`s even fingerprints in the alloy from the guy who fettled the moulds!!
My observations are:
1) no clearence between the spring box lower FF16AS and the edge of the brake plate- (judicious filing of the plate will sort it)
2)mudguard stays need to be spaced outwards 1/4" or so to clear rear scoop and retaining nut for shoe pivot pin (expected)
3) mysteriously, the cam bush bosses are unequal length?-one is a tad short -leaves end float in the cam to be shimmed out, and the other too long by 1-1.5mm,(see piccy) would jam the cam if nut tightened.Am I missing something here? i.e. is it for a longer cam to provide clearence around air scoops/speedo cables etc, or just poor finishing?
4) the redundant boss on the nearside plate,(blue cross in piccy) used for the speedo drive mount on the other side, is hard up against the inside of the fork leg when wheel is fitted to forks-will rub off paint at very least-I intend to remove metal from it to achieve some clearence-any observations ?