Hi, Just purchased my first Norton. Its a 1958 polychromatic grey 99 which I have been doing a refurb on. My question is that the brake pedal has excessive side play which leaves it resting under the dome nut of the side case cover. Wondering if I need to replace the pedal or the spindle depending on which is most likely to wear.
Interesting,my 40000 mile…
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Cheers mate. Thought so.
Cheers mate. Thought so.
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What a coincidence...
Whilst setting the ignition timing on my plunger machine; footpeg off, pedal off primary off, disk on crank nut - I found a curl of shim steel on the tray below. Whats this? don't know put it away... Did the necessary over the weekend, refitted the parts above, now my brake pedal is all over the shop!!
I love to find the dodges and workarounds our forefathers had when necessity was the mother of invention. Needless to say I reclaimed the curl from the bin, cleaned, trimmed the frayed edges, re-greased and slipped it all back together good as before. It will see me out...
40 years on the road plus 40 years in a shed, what was I expecting to find...
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Cheers Jonathon, When I…
Cheers Jonathon, When I first put it back together it was my first thought that I had dropped a shim till I looked at the manual and there wasn't one.
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I have to confess..
.. that in my impecunious youth I used a bit snipped from a steel tape measure as an emergency shim to take up play in that spindle. Worked a treat (well got through several MoTs).......
It wasn't Jonathan's bike as my current ES2 is my first plunger model.
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Interesting,my 40000 mile pedal has no play whatsoever. I suspect that a new spindle and a bored and bushed pedal will be the way it will be in the future, however a used slightly worn pedal should still be found on the SH market. Grease nipples were there for a purpose. My lads are forever complaining I oil everything and it gets on them. Tough!!.