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Originally Posted by voucht

In French, we say "merde" to wish good luck (no need to translate I guess ).

So, "merde" for tomorrow Kev! This time is going to be the good one

It will be effin merder if he fails it this time lol
Anyways please excuse the lack of activity on here ....have had a few surviving day to day issues, but I am back on song now so the fail list

Well the handbrake was straight forward enough, buy a new cable and get it swaged to the right length and retro fit it.....took nearly a day as the tank had to come out ....beware if you are thinking about using Newcastle don't use any kind of "cable joiner" it wont do.

The under-reading speedo was fun as I had put that dash in so it was not going anywhere jeeez it was a big pita but sure enough my research did prove worth it when I drilled a hole roughly where I thought the potentiometer would be and it was.....after making a record of speeds to rpm it was just the slightest tweak clockwise to bring the reading to a passable level, but even if it is still out I can get to it at the re-test .

kick up on the headlamps turned out to be a relatively easy fix.....after grinding a small glass locating "bobble" down I was able to move the lens and reflector around 10 degrees to get the kick up the right way.

Easiest of them all....axle weights, just simply typed up a letter on pc saying I was the manufacturer and I was informing the examiner of a design axle weight change.

Rear fog light was resolved using Sirieslandy's diagram further up this page.

Coil spring "locks".....I was not sure how I was going to sort this one out, I was not keen on the examiners suggestion of small grub screw through the threaded ring seat as it would defo create a weakness at that spot so I decided to fabricate a aluminium jubilee type clip to clamp on the shock body but also have a small tab that locates into a notch on the threaded spring seat .....this provided two "locking actions" and no need to take the spring off.....I have had to sacrifice a little adjustment, but I can live with that for the mo

only have pics of last item on list....see next page