Made some decent progress clutch-wise on the Norton over the last few days. Sadly, both times I worked on it I forgot the cameras, but surely my vivid descriptions will suffice. After the initial rebuild, the clutch lever on the kicker side wouldn't budge, and I couldn't figure out why as it was my dad who rebuilt it. When I pulled the clutch lever, the clutch basket moved only very slightly, but as a whole unit, and clearly, not as it was supposed to. We thought something may have been wrong internally, but couldn't find out because we couldn't get the spring nuts off. The notch for the screwdriver is divided in half and between the halves is a hole for the rod that holds the springs underneath to go through. The rods were flush with the top of nuts, leaving no room for a screwdriver to undo them. I had made a special tool for this job out of an old chisel and a hack-saw, but it was in my toolbox at home.
So today I brought the tool over and loosened the springs which freed it up. It works great now, except I found that after tightening the adjuster nut until it touches the clutch rod, the cable adjustment doesn't seem to do anything at all. Tomorrow I'll put it in gear and use it a few times to see what happens.
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