Geez.... I'm really beginning to think that it's not Brit bikes that are bad or unreliable, it's the morons who have wrenched on them over the last 57 years.
Example: While attempting to adjust the valves, per the manual and additional BSA TSB, I couldn't get the intake spindle clocked into what was supposed to be the normal range. I figured maybe the intake seat had been ground in the past, throwing off the rocker angle a little.
So, being bored a couple days ago, I removed the rocker box off the bike and disassembled both that box, and the one I bought off of
http://www.ebay.com for research purposes. Come to find out, some moron reassembled the rocker box completely wrong! It's amazing to me with how utterly simple this bike is, how someone can get shit so bass-akwards!? Can't wait to see what else I find..... This bike is fast becoming a CSI project.