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All sorted thanks L.A.B. I don’t think I’ve eliminated the needle wobble at low speeds but at least it should read somewhere near the correct speed. And the needle returns to zero without giving it a belt.

Has anyone stripped a smiths speedometer where the trip knob and shaft come horizontally out of the body. I can’t get the internals out of the body because of the shaft. I notice that TMS sell the shaft separately so I’m guessing the shaft should pull out of the body, mine however is refusing to budge with lightish pulling. I don’t want to put too much strain on it in case this isn’t the correct way to remove it.

There are more classic car and tractor shows that you can shake an oily rag at up here in my bit of Yorkshire but next to bugger all bike related. Going south needs two days supplies cos of the queues on the M1 and anyway I get nose bleeds if I leave Yorkshire.

“Your virtual pint is behind the virtual bar.”

Thank you very much. I’d had a few of the real things when I posted that.

What an ingenious way of re imagining and upcycling a modern day reproduction of a piece of iconic motorcycling history to coerce a large piece of fiscal renumeration from someone who really aught to get themself and their lifestyle manager a proper job.

Thanks for the replies.

If ordinary silicone is successful then I think I’ll go for a heat resistant flue block type, geocell do one available at toolstation that should do the job.

Though it’s an excellent idea expanding the pipe isn’t that practical in my case as the exhaust outlets in the head have worn unevenly so the pipes would have to be expanded to suit the hole. And unless the pipes were a fairly snug and tight fit some sort of sealant would still have to be used.

I did consider drilling and tapping holes round the outer edge of the exhaust outlet, so a ring clamped to the pipe could bolt up to the head, I think Unity Equipe sell something similar. However in my opinion the wall thickness on the head isn’t substantial enough to allow a thread of a useful size to be tapped in it.

Has anyone used Loctite 5990 for sealing Triumph push in exhausts, or had any experience of using it. Is there a better product? There are a few gas fire flue sealing silicone type products which may work. These days there must be something better than Gun Gum which is what I used 20 odd years ago, and only seemed to last a week or so before the exhaust was rattling around in the head causing backfires loud enough to wake the dead.