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Motorcycle Discussions => British Bikes => Topic started by: stevestriumph on November 04, 2018, 11:40:56 PM

Title: More pics
Post by: stevestriumph on November 04, 2018, 11:40:56 PM

Bottoms up.

Title: Re: More pics
Post by: R on November 05, 2018, 04:35:11 AM

These would have been better connected with the original thread ?

That pressing and welding underneath looks better than yer average remake.
Could be original Triumph... ?

Title: Re: More pics
Post by: Rex on November 05, 2018, 09:48:11 AM

Dunno about that. As I posted in the other thread look at the tank mounts and their fixing. These are crudely made and fixed.
IIRC weren't the earlier Triumph mountings brazed on rather than welded?

Title: Re: More pics
Post by: Mark M on November 05, 2018, 07:16:30 PM

The welding on the main pressing edges is excellent but the mounts are poor. They are over recesses so it is possible the original fixings were expanding rubbers?
REgards, Mark

Title: Re: More pics
Post by: mini-me on November 05, 2018, 08:06:55 PM

more than likely, considering the age of it, that these tanks mounts were replaced because the originals, as is so often the case had stripped threads or some twerp pushed a bolt through the bottom of the tank?