kickstarter fouling

Dear John, in my experience they all have potential to.

If this has just occured and these are not new pipes then cure may simply be slacken nut at cylinder head, and at silencer, get friend to apply inward pressure with boot and tighten up while maintaining pressure.

If exhaust is new and seperate pipes above may work.

if exhaust is new but ith balance pipe then only cure I have found is to warm front pipe with gas (in area they normally turn blue) while on bike and bend inwards; however doesn't do your chrome any favours.

good luck

martin

The kick start lever on my Model 88 used to hit the silencer. What I did was remove the silencer, and refit it with its mounting bracket inside the pillion rest bracket on the frame instead of outside. That gained nearly 1/4" clearance and eliminated the problem

Paul

The MK3 ES kick start was redesigned to avoid this. Using MK3 exhaust pipe to cylinder head set up allows more adjustment of the pipes. Have a look on Andover Nortons site pictures at the different exhaust pipe fixings.

John, I had same issue after a Mk2 Commando rebuild - turns out it was the exhaust mounting plates. I had replaced the plates that were on the bike with a stainless set - but these were for the peashooter pipes and not the annular discharge pipes - they are different. The correct plates move the silencer back another couple of inches and it clears the kick start. Steve