as Mk 2 which was the Lightning cam, magnetos from a Douglas which was an
opposed twin so you can use the same cam ring because it’s a 360. I got it off
eBay and it was brand new, still had a wax seal with the stamp from Lucas on
it just one of those lucky finds, and it comes with a seal on it so I can run my
chaincase wet; the other ones were grease. The chaincase driving the magneto
is aluminium. Normally the A twins had the toolbox up here (above the clutch
cover), but I put a post war tool box under the seat and it’s a post war seat. I
put the oil tank, with a screw-on oil filter, down there in the shape of the tool
box because I like to do big miles. I first 86/20 case hardened the cams and the
followers, well it ate ‘em within 1000 miles and when I pulled it down I saw
the big end was accumulating what was coming off the cams so when I put it
together for the second time with Stellite followers and so on, I put the filter on.
“I had a set of post wars and I had them re-tubed so they’re the same. It’s a
nice bike to ride. They are tubeless tyres on it – I found a tape on eBay from
Japan – a kit with two layers of tape. I have them on my Shadow too. The inner
tubes now leak down over the winter but these don’t lose more than a few
pounds after a winter. So now I just carry a plug kit and a CO2 cartridge for a flat
tyre. But I haven’t had to do it. The mud flap is a great thing for keeping foreign
objects off the back tyre. A nail will lie on the road and you can ride over it and
not puncture the front tyre but it will flick it and that’s why you get it in the back
tyre. But when it hits the mudflap it will spit it off to the side. I went to South
America and back and never had anything puncture my tyre in 30,000 miles.” Ph: (07) 4771 2677
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