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1979 Triumph T140E, a little over 8K miles, and by the condition I believe it. The clutch plates were stuck, so I stripped and cleaned the primary, putting new cush drive rubbers in since it was apart. Problem I noticed when I first removed the cover, is the rotor seemed to be sunk in about 1/2" from the edge of the stator ! Surely this can't be right ? :? Checked all the parts by the parts book, nothing missing ... and the sprocket to rotor spacer was the correct one. Anyway, I installed a thick washer ( .120" thick) from a Norton crankshaft, with the stock spacer, to try and make the rotor more flush. It's better, but still not flush. But then, I had to remove some of the end of the timing pointer for it to not rub ! :? Is this normal with later Triumphs ??? I'm sure my 650s weren't this bad. The picture below are WITH the additional .120" washer. Comments please ...

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<blockquote data-quote="nortriubuell" data-source="post: 105788" data-attributes="member: 2475">1979 Triumph T140E, a little over 8K miles, and by the condition I believe it.&nbsp; The clutch plates were stuck, so I stripped and cleaned the primary, putting new cush drive rubbers in since it was apart.&nbsp; Problem I noticed when I first removed the cover, is the rotor seemed to be sunk in about 1/2&quot; from the edge of the stator !&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!&nbsp; &nbsp; :o"&nbsp; data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" />&nbsp;&nbsp; Surely this can&#039;t be right ?&nbsp; :?&nbsp;&nbsp; Checked all the parts by the parts book, nothing missing ... and the sprocket to rotor spacer was the correct one.&nbsp; Anyway, I installed a thick washer ( .120&quot; thick) from a Norton crankshaft, with the stock spacer, to try and make the rotor more flush.&nbsp; It&#039;s better, but still not flush.&nbsp; But then, I had to remove some of the end of the timing pointer for it to not rub !&nbsp;&nbsp; :?&nbsp;&nbsp; Is this normal with later Triumphs ???&nbsp; I&#039;m sure my 650s weren&#039;t this bad.&nbsp; The picture below are WITH the additional .120&quot; washer.&nbsp; Comments please ...[ATTACH=full]35878[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]35879[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]35880[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="nortriubuell, post: 105788, member: 2475"] 1979 Triumph T140E, a little over 8K miles, and by the condition I believe it. The clutch plates were stuck, so I stripped and cleaned the primary, putting new cush drive rubbers in since it was apart. Problem I noticed when I first removed the cover, is the rotor seemed to be sunk in about 1/2" from the edge of the stator ! :o Surely this can't be right ? :? Checked all the parts by the parts book, nothing missing ... and the sprocket to rotor spacer was the correct one. Anyway, I installed a thick washer ( .120" thick) from a Norton crankshaft, with the stock spacer, to try and make the rotor more flush. It's better, but still not flush. But then, I had to remove some of the end of the timing pointer for it to not rub ! :? Is this normal with later Triumphs ??? I'm sure my 650s weren't this bad. The picture below are WITH the additional .120" washer. Comments please ... [ATTACH=full]35878[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]35879[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]35880[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]