It's the kind of repair only worth doing if you have the whole thing apart. All I can think of doing is squirting in some WD40 and wiggling the key.
If I recall correctly doesn't the complete lock just drop out into the inside of the headstock? It might need a a little errr... persuasion mind and then it probably will have to be junked Depends on your concourse ambitions of course.
This is not a concours bike, it is for riding, to the Manx next year in fact. So WD40 + wiggle = working steering lock
Callipers back from cleaning and re-painting. Seal service kits now unpacked and seals installed with grease. That little "O" ring doesn't seem to fit in the hole on either side, so I assume it just gets squashed as the two bolts are tightened equally. Hopefully the new black, Hel brake lines can be attached without that galvanised bracket on the fork leg and the metal tube extension to the calliper.
That was my assumption also. When mine was refurbished many moons ago by Brancato he made up some stainless braided lines that did just that... fitted direct into the caliper and it does look a whole lot better. I try to get me rs together and upload a photo.
Here we go... I don't know where on earth he got the fitting for these but remember this was in the mid to late 80s when there wasn't the wealth of aftermarket suppliers about (if any). In fact the nuts on the fittings are all imperial so they may well have been aircraft type stuff...
I love that angled brake line fitting. I will dig my new lines out of the new parts box and get a photo up here. Fitting rear shocks now. I took a lot of pre-strip down photos, but failed to capture the position of the left side rear brake line and brake light cable stay. Is it on the inside of the rear sub-frame suspension pivot lug?
It appears the Darmah is different (I'm pretty sure the frames are different) as there is a brake line splitter half way through that provides the brake light mounting point. Or at least mine is different... And I have mounted the stay on the inside
Yes, they are different - links to two parts diagrams of the rear brake configurations: https://www.ducaticlassics.com/parts/900-sd-and-ssd-darmah/all/rear-brake-system https://www.ducaticlassics.com/parts/900-mike-hailwood-replica/all/rear-brake-system-and-foot-res
steering lock can be punched out into the frame, The locked is shared with many bikes such as BMW airheads, Motorworks is a cheap source for replacement lock and spring
Thanks... I junked the old airboxes and the unit is mounted on the rear lugs with the new (Dyna) coils mounted on the front airbox lugs. In fact I completely rewired the bike using a common earth busbar and tidied up the horror of all that wiring shoved in the front of the bike.
