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<blockquote data-quote="miked" data-source="post: 24473" data-attributes="member: 1821"><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Thanks for all the great advice, a massive help - its given me a lot more confidence...</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">I agree totally with your last point Howard, and I’m only too aware of my limitations hence why I’m so grateful for the help and advice I get on here... </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">I’d rather learn “on the job” than have the work done for me and be no better off unless I can help it - in any case I doubt I could find anyone that would take it on in time to meet my target at this late stage.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">I think with David’s figures I feel happy enough to tackle the valve timing, obviously I need extra shims for the timing wheel and that sounds relatively straight forward. I’m on to the ebay cover, but if it doesn’t come my way then I’ve learned the twin one I have can be modified (unless anyone has one they'd like to swap). I’ve then to set the mag, which I’ve done several times on my Norton (one less cylinder here though...), so hopefully I should be more or less good to go.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The carb is the next unknown quantity, so expect a raft of questions on that subject in the near future!</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">I’d love to get to a section meet at some point. Coventry would be my nearest – it would still be over an hour each way, but I should make the effort at least once a month. I’ll also have trawl back through the posts on here as well and see what else I can find to help.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Many thanks once again for all the contributions, they are very much appreciated.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Cheers</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Mike</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="miked, post: 24473, member: 1821"] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Thanks for all the great advice, a massive help - its given me a lot more confidence...[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]I agree totally with your last point Howard, and I’m only too aware of my limitations hence why I’m so grateful for the help and advice I get on here... I’d rather learn “on the job” than have the work done for me and be no better off unless I can help it - in any case I doubt I could find anyone that would take it on in time to meet my target at this late stage.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]I think with David’s figures I feel happy enough to tackle the valve timing, obviously I need extra shims for the timing wheel and that sounds relatively straight forward. I’m on to the ebay cover, but if it doesn’t come my way then I’ve learned the twin one I have can be modified (unless anyone has one they'd like to swap). I’ve then to set the mag, which I’ve done several times on my Norton (one less cylinder here though...), so hopefully I should be more or less good to go.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]The carb is the next unknown quantity, so expect a raft of questions on that subject in the near future![/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]I’d love to get to a section meet at some point. Coventry would be my nearest – it would still be over an hour each way, but I should make the effort at least once a month. I’ll also have trawl back through the posts on here as well and see what else I can find to help.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Many thanks once again for all the contributions, they are very much appreciated.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Cheers[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Mike[/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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