Strange rear brake pedal issue
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wildbill56
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and chains run the gauntlet these days. From $20 asian chains to top dollar oring, narrowed sideplates.....after buying a pair of Indian side panels a few years ago, I see what crappy steel looks and feels like. You get what you pay for....sometimes, maybe. Sites like this one of like minded folks are a good resource these days. I wonder how long the Norton popularity will endure? Us boomers seem to be the enthusiists today. BSAs have really fallen in popularity and value, at least in the US.
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No such thing as stretch . Wear .
Replace the chain and the front sprocket as a minimum .
Replace the chain and the front sprocket as a minimum .
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Les,
I found this and thought it was the best way. I don’t know if I have the wrong plates.
Mike
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Mike, I just had a close look at mine, which is inside the inner plate.
The cable does bear against that plate at the front (not harshly) but if I changed it to "between", as per your document, it is still not in alignment with the cable end register but with almost no room for the necessary bend to correct for that misalignment.
I think I will stay with the inside path. I might grind and polish a "round" on the inside leading edge of the inner plate though, to make life easier on the cable outer.
Cheers
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No that is the right one (at least the second picture I don't know about the first) but the plates shown are wrong for peashooters which means the cable also has to be fed between the rubbers which isn't shown where the cable sheathing can be damaged against the silencer fasteners.
Before I realized that replacing the chain (or cutting out a link) would give my real brake cable more clearance, I moved the inner plate that the passenger peg sits in to where the outer plate is. That made clearance so cable would not rub
(I never take passengers so it is never used)
(I never take passengers so it is never used)
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This routing would work for an Interstate with the low silencers, but for Roadsters with peashooters, I agree with rob ss that it would be troublesome.
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Les,
I must have the wrong plates as I have tried the routing other ways and running mine between the plates has worked out to be the best way.My exhaust system lines up perfectly and the mounting rubbers have lasted for many years.My plates don’t look like the ones in the diagram I posted.Would the plates be different by changing from a balanced system on a 74 Roadster?
Thanks for your input on this.
Mike
Maybe my problem is to switch the plates like Dennis.
Mike
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They look like the correct plates for peashooters.
Correct they are not which is what I've been saying all along they're black cap plates with the triangular plate inverted.
No. I'm not sure the person who drew the diagram had ever seen a peashooter exhaust or a black cap exhaust either or he wouldn't have drawn the triangular plate upside down. That Service Release was from June 1975.
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Les,
I think I have the correct plates but have assembled them incorrectly according to your picture. I am going to take them apart today and rectify. I really appreciate your help and patience with me on this as it never dawned on me that I had it this way for so many years
Thanks again,
Mike
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But my pictures are of the black cap exhaust and brackets.
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I don't remember how it was originally but the cable doesn't seem to align if run between the plates (Roadster w/ peashooters). I went behind also but the cable sheath was getting seriously rubbed by the swingarm. (The original cable was a bit skinnier too.) I ended up buying some slightly longer spacers from McMaster-Carr to space out the Z-plate so the cable had more clearance.
