neat cylinder endgap tool

I spent the day fitting rings on two sets of henderson cylinders. Four cylinders a piece, four rings to check and fit the gap on per cylinder--32 rings in all. IT is important to check the gap past the relief for the cylinder skirt, make sure that the feeler gauge that you are using is square and perpendicular to the bore and gap!


Check out this awesome tool. The little wheel is a diamond wheel that cuts the inside of the rings so that you can dial in your gap to exactly what you want. The tolerance for these small little pistons is .008 to .016, I set all of mine up at .014 and .015.




HEre are the kj cylinders. the deluxes are on another bench. I am going out to put the cylinders on the motor!!!! wooohoo!

42 el and kj stuff

I took yesterday off and hung out with tanya, even though I wasn't at the shop, neat stuff was still happening. we got a set of handlebars for my dad's kj in the mail. This is an original casting with new bars. They turned out great! thanks tom


Here is a neat pic of some strange castings on the set of 42 cases that my dads putting together. check out the extra aluminum on the timing plug and inner primary sleeve. This is from the patterns not being packed super tight when the cases were poured.



this is pretty neat too,




and going together. next up is the cylinders and heads. Should be done today.