SHIMS!!!!! By way of your friendly beer can.

Just Shim it already..

 

First Locate your shim stock... 

 







Go to town with a razor                                                                                               Clean up the edges

                                            Slice em and dice em into you chosen shim sizes 

Recognize where a shim is due.. yep totally needed one here....  

                    And, this is why.. Triumph                 tubes have a taper at the top for the tree's these are re manufactured tubes and the machinist went a bit far with the lathe taking the chrome down to just a few inches above the bottom tree.. those mm add up.. 

Start your shim in a bit of a spiral pattern to make it feed in a bit easier and spin it around until it disappears under the bracket in question..  

                     Ok and now they are tight and ready to go .. a bit scared and bruised but holding solid none the less ..  now where was I ...

By the way .. If you haven't read it already might I recommend "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" Pages 53-55.. there is an excellent excerpt about beer can shims I think every rider should read.