What fell off your norton today?

I thought Isolastics are suppose to stop things falling off and they say putting a Commando motor into a Featherbed frame and the bike will shake to pieces, in 42 years in the Featherbed frame I have only lost one muffler mount nut, the top gearbox mount nut and only the original Commando horn its on the highway somewhere, but it wasn't mounted right when I did the conversion back in the early 80s, but it only fell off about 12 years ago and was no lost to me as it was to quiet anyway, other than that nothing else has fallen off since.

Ashley
 
Lol... Left mirror.. watched it flip off and the truck behind me run it over. Remenants hanging on the garage wall of shame.
Rear brake shackle assembly. It dropped off on the 403/QEW somewhere between Paris and Niagara Falls. Thankfully I had fitted the brake lever spring. A suprise when slowing on the Mountain Rd ramp and nothing there.
 
I had a primary chaincase inspection plug fall off while riding. Luckily I had a spare.
 
I had a license plate disappear and 2 headsteady studs. Blue loctite, or nyloc nuts on everything now.

If my memory is correct, the factory only used nylocs on the big isolastic throughbolt/stud nuts?
 
Marcelx said:
I "lost" the auxiliary power socket plug twice, it happend after bike meetings with other Nortons, it is a bit anoying. Since then I remove the plug before going to bike meetings. BTW it costs about 18 GBP.
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Thats a prized item for norton owners. Did you check the other nortons at the next meeting?
 
baz said:
Yep I can relate to that
I've been knocked off my commando once and I crashed and came off once
I have never lost anything off any commando I have owned
Now triumph and BSA twins and singles is a different story
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There's an all original 1970 A65L in the back room of the local Honda shop. Would love to have it as an around town bike but my past experience with my '67 A65T taught me to stay close to home.
 
Yes. Happened last Sunday. I was east of East Troy on hwy 20 heading to visit friends in Milwaukee. I was just coming out of an S bend when the bike started making noise. I grabbed the clutch and got off along a driveway. At first, on account of the noise and oil coming out the bottom of the motor, I thought the timing chain had snapped. Called the friends I was going to visit to tell them I wouldn't be making it in. He brought out a trailer to haul the bike back home. I walked up to the house on whose driveway I was blocking and draining oil onto to tell them what was happening. The owner, Mike. was a good person. No complaints about the blocked driveway and brought Oildry to clear up the mess I had made.
He stayed while waiting for Dennis to show up and helped load the bike.
It was a couple of days before I looked to see what happened. Then I finally saw that the drain plug was gone.
I hadn't changed the oil yet this year. Why it happened at this late stage, I don't know.
Another winter project now.
I've owned this bike twice now, for over 30 years total. She had 147,000 miles on her. One top end by me and a top and bottom by Ray (Who I sold her to and bought back from)
Lots of memories of riding with the kids and Norton Rallies with my son Brian.
So ya, i will get it fixed.
 
franko said:
Yes. Happened last Sunday. I was east of East Troy on hwy 20 heading to visit friends in Milwaukee. I was just coming out of an S bend when the bike started making noise. I grabbed the clutch and got off along a driveway. At first, on account of the noise and oil coming out the bottom of the motor, I thought the timing chain had snapped. Called the friends I was going to visit to tell them I wouldn't be making it in. He brought out a trailer to haul the bike back home. I walked up to the house on whose driveway I was blocking and draining oil onto to tell them what was happening. The owner, Mike. was a good person. No complaints about the blocked driveway and brought Oildry to clear up the mess I had made.
He stayed while waiting for Dennis to show up and helped load the bike.
It was a couple of days before I looked to see what happened. Then I finally saw that the drain plug was gone.
I hadn't changed the oil yet this year. Why it happened at this late stage, I don't know.
Another winter project now.
I've owned this bike twice now, for over 30 years total. She had 147,000 miles on her. One top end by me and a top and bottom by Ray (Who I sold her to and bought back from)
Lots of memories of riding with the kids and Norton Rallies with my son Brian.
So ya, i will get it fixed.
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I always clean the drain plugs and put a dab of loctite on them, I remember a mate of mine having the same unfortunate experience as you with a Trident oil tank drain plug.
 
If your bike wet sumps then removing the drain plug regularly would be a good way to making sure the drain plug is up tight by draining the sump before a ride, better than putting a shut off valve between your oil tank and motor and if its laid up for sometime I think its best to have oil keeping your bottom end well lubed, so easy to drain the sump and while draining do other maintenance and checks before the ride.
 
TBW said:
Me too….now carry a spare
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On my b50 that I built recently I drilled and tapped the end of the spline to take csk screw and washer to stop it falling off
Old memories die hard
 
Watched the small switch R.H . ball and spring go flying away onto the sidewalk somewhere. Retrieved the spring but tiny ball is gone.
 
Torontonian said:
Watched the small switch R.H . ball and spring go flying away onto the sidewalk somewhere. Retrieved the spring but tiny ball is gone.
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Sorry for laughing but I had the same thing happen to me. The little ball bearing is 4mm by the way. I have a small envelope with about 50 of those, turns out you can’t just buy one. Lol! If you’d like a few PM me.
 

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