klock works pre sturgis party and 39 pictures

Here is the picture that I have been thinking about for the last week. Three 39 EL Motors, a 38 and a 46. These things are so nice. I love seeing them all lined up. This is the biggest batch of 37-30 cam cover motors that we have had finished at one time.

Brittney and I cruised down south to the Klockworks party in Mitchell with my dad, sister, Chuck and Larry. It was an alright time. I enjoyed the ride there and back. I have not ridden my 36 since returning from our midwest tour a week ago. I was having problems with a dirty fuel filter. I cleaned it out a couple of times and it still seems to be clogged up a little bit. I will pull the carb tomorrow and clean everything out.

We got back from riding sometime around eleven, so I put Jim's 39 motor in to make up for the six hours I spent riding bikes. This frame required no shims on the front motor mount. I love it when things work out that nicely. It must be beginners luck

And the pretty side.

39 el pictures

My dad has been picking away at Eric's 39 motor. It is almost finished. Jim's is up next and should be done pretty quickly. This motor is so sweet.

I got the back end of the bike all sorted out and finished up, except for the dang washers under the center stand mounting bolts. It always seems like there is one little part that you have to order.

NOS horn button and dimmer switch. I love the feeling of stock Harley switches. They are so nice, no one has been able to come up with a good usable reproduction of either of them.

Check out the original battery flags and black painted fender straps.

I sorted out all of the front brake stuff too. I still have to run the inner cable, but that is relatively easy.

check out the 38 to 41 lug nuts. They have a little groove cut in them an eighth of an inch from where the taper starts.

EH 1939 knucklehead cases.

Eric's 39 cases got finished up. They turned out really nice. This motor came to us all rebuilt by a hd technician, Eric paid him to rebuild it, and the mechanic did not realize that the gen saddle was broken off until the motor was put together, I guess this kind of weakened Erics confidence in the rest of the repairs, so he sent it to us to go through. There were quite a few other issues that could have potentially turned into large problems, so I guess it is a good thing that we checked it out.


This turned out pretty good.



drum roll

plating etc

A box full of nickle plating showed up today from our friend Doug! This stuff looks so good. Most of the 36 to 39 manifolds are reproduction ones that we make.


These are for the 47 bobber that we are building for Glenn. I pre polished some spots on them, and as soon as i hit the areas with a little bit of compound, these will glow!



HEre are some of the carbs that got plated. Pretty cool stuff!




Ray is still prefitting all the stuff that goes on the 65. It is coming along well, the fender tips and tail light were repro on the bike. I found an original tail light and rear fender tip, but still need an og frong tip. Do any of you guys have one you would be willing to set me up with, shoot me an email at amcayouthprogram@hotmail.com if you do. Thanks

Carb pics

Some of our friends From the motor company are flying my dad and I out to York to do a tour and talk to some of the employees on wednesday. We will be back on Sunday. So I am trying to get some projects ready for Jesse and Ray to work on. My dad is gearing up to do a batch of carbs.... like 18 of them! All of the bowls in the front row are for early nickle plated carbs, that are still off at the platers.


Here is a dirty nasty bowl for a 45 that probably has not been cleaned since it was new!



This raised casting code is in all 38 and earlier aluminum bowls




The upper left bowl is for Jim's 36, the lower right one is a bowl that I have been holding on to for years. It is the hardest to find linkert bowl of all time, It isn't mentioned in any books, I have only seen two other ones. It is for super late 38s. It has the early casting date on the inside, and is machined with a fly cutter before the drain is drilled and tapped. Later ones were counter bored-drilled andthen tapped. Anyways, I am going to put it on Jim's 38 carb. I have to do a wild fix on the stem hole, but it will be worth it.

go

Ray is finishing up Bob's 45 transmission today. It is turning out great.

My dad is cutting valve seats on knuckleheads and trying to catch these other three sets up with the rest of them.

And I am working on cables and Wiring on Andy's bike. The throttle cable runs outside of the frame on 36 to 47 big twins.

welding and grinding

I did the finish grinding on paul's 37 case this morning. Doing work like this is a real challenge. I don't know which skill is more important welding or grinding. I guess they kind of go hand in hand. I brought down the flats first, then picked away at the radius from the top of the case to the bottom. Since the bottom was already machined , I could only go one direction, otherwise the flat gets rounded.


It looks pretty good, now I just have to punch and tap the hole into it and it's good as new.



I got that nasty 39 fin welded on. I posted about this a few weeks ago. This was a real challenge. I got it to weld on straight at the bottom, but the weld generated heat and pulled the fin away from the others and consequently was 10 or 15 degrees from being parallel. I had to heat the fin up and bend it until it was perpendicular with the mounts and parallel with the other fins. what a bunch of work, but I am happy with how it turned out.




Ray finished up the 38 transmission. it is sooooo nice. I put the brake light switch on, I couldn't help but not to. The mount is not supposed to be parkerized, it should be painted gloss black, and it will be once the bike is finished.