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That No2 head has had a lot of time sent on it. Polishing ports may look good but does very little extra in an engine for a road bike.
The carb will be fine (unless you are going to run it on methonal and throw it sideways around a dirt oval) and the small step from 1 1/8 to 1 1/4 wont be noticable on the road and the step will actually help with fuel reversion at low revs. Keep up the good work and enjoy the bike.

Thank you for the replies. I am putting tapered roller bearings in the headstem and need a locknut to hold the tension when fitting the top plate.
Thanks Rex but I would hate to think of the price of a tap to use once. I will cut a thread in some bar stock with my lathe.
1951 G2 Bullet trials.

Anybody have any suggestions on where to buy a 1"x26tpi nut in Australia please. Need one for my RE model G2.

Bit of dribble here on the Marusho.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfFF_LvqobE
Bloke I once met in Newcastle NSW has one and it has a little sign on the back that says 'when they wanted a better BMW they made it in Japan'. I know he bought it from an auction place in Brisbane in about 2011. Never heard it run but looked complete.

Looking at the Renolds website the GY08B1NA is the only one close to what you want but is a couple of mm wider than the 110044.

Many years ago I found some old boots of my late grandfathers that had dried up like your toolboxes and an older bike friend said to fill them with cheap vegetable oil from the supermarket. I did this and after a month or so they had swelled and softened up nicely. I left them to drain and filled with absorbent kitchen paper. Left in the summer sun they dried enough to polish with boot polish, and after all that they were too small for me to wear and I gave then to a cousin. 

Dude, you really need to downsize your pictures. All I can see in most of them is a back wheel.

I have had success in these type situations by heating the cases until a match wood will burn when touched to case and then spraying the bearing with aerosol freeze spray to shrink the bearing and break the bond between case and bearing. I think the press would be far more than needed for this job.
This is the one I used.
https://crcindustries.com.au/products/crc-freeze-spray-300g-2039.html