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Plus the usual warnings not to bend the carby flange with thick soft gaskets.A hard spacer and a smear of silastic on thin paper gaskets is the go.

2X on that...... overpriced by the Norton name,and double overpriced now because of the tossers who want to be hooligans on military bikes at D Day reenactments.........

havent  seen  SA hub on a bike in years...........Sturmey Archer still exist,in Taiwan,and make a very expensive 7 speed hub for mountain bikes....................there used to be an interesting story on Sturmey Archer,some con artists got controll of the company ,took the Nottingham council for a million or so,and then stole more millions from the remains of Sturmey Archer.......E DIT.....one place to find a small planetary gearset,or three is in a cheap air drill...probably lots of other similar tools have them too.

When the Jawa Eso motors were used in road racing,return to the tank was by simply hooking up a pipe from crankcase ,and it worked quite well.........some here may remember the ESo s had a Czech made copy of the Pilgrim pump,that was much better made than the british one.

I suggest you get a Norton single,or a twin.......then you will never complain about any other brand wet sumping.A Norton will often dump the entire contents of the oil tank overnight.....Back leakage thru the feed section of the oil pump.The common cure is a tap,but a much better one is a special demand valve fitted to a Yamaha outboard motor......unfortunately Ive forgotten the part no,but no doubt someone here will know it.......but last I heard Yamaha was back ordered on this valve due to unprecedented demand.........which they were at a loss to understand..........until they discovered the valves were for british bikes...........

I suppose my question should be....is the horizontal carb different from the vertical.....or can a standard vertical body be used?............Its spigot mount ,so any angle can be accomodated.........I thought about having the carb angled ,but that doesnt look right...........the float bowl hasn been made yet,but will be a old Binks twojet brass bowl with a bit soldered to the side ............currently I am using a Amal bowl with a bit of hose connecting,and adjustable level.................Ive tried a 76 with the external bleeds ,and petrol goes everywhere until the motor is running......Ive tried the 276 and petrol only leaks from the slide top ring.,until the motor is going...................this is exactly the same result as on the Triumph single......................................the obvious way is to turn off the fuel if the motor isnt running,which is what he does.

The forks are close enough to the post war 125 forks,to use a set......the post war wheels are also similar ,in that the rear has a sprocket one side ,brake t'uther........so If it was me ,I would look for the postwar 125 parts,and I dont believe they could be that hard to find..................and I notice you have the fork blades anyway..........the rest isnt hard to fabricate ...............................not wishing to hurt feelings here ,but Enfield tiddlers have always been bottom of the totem pole.....even a 500 single with girders never very expensive.......unfortunately the cheap WD models have fallen victim to the millenials desire to re enact WW2.......without the risk of injury or death ,of course........just got to see the recent  D Day re enactment  in France.....millenials saving the planet driving round in hundreds of trucks that get 1 mile to the gallon.