Larry's Oil Tank Nipple Repair Part 2

Here are the new nipples in place.


Here is the silver solder, and flux



Don't forget to flux the joints that are to be soldered.




In this pic Larry is soldering the nipples into the tank.





And the finished product! Larry makes it look so easy

The last couple of days!

My daddy finished up the transmission for Doug's 36 today. I love the way that these look when they are set up for with the chrome package. Check out the 36/37 kicker arm and clutch arm!


Early 36 kicker covers don't have a boss for the vent, and the case is spot faced where the fitting goes in. The casting is completely different when compared to later 36 covers. The top is different too, check out the stop for the clutch arm, I wish that hd would have kept doing this, it is a cool deal.



Here are some of the wheels that jesse laced up yesterday, they are very beautiful! He did three more sets, but they are all getting trued up.




Here are some prototype stainless steel pushrod clips that got mailed to us for approval. These are correct for 1940 to 1942 knuckleheads. The clip part is .020 to thin. The die is being modified, and we should have them in a month or so hopefully!

DB36 end of the day pics

Check out the crashbar, headlight and rear brake pedal! This biks is really coming together. I am in love! I am going to hook up the brakes tomorrow, and install the front fender light!


Check out the cad plated tabs that rivet to the headlight ring. This is a difficult detail to do, but it is totally worth it.

DB36

Yesterday The postman brought us some crashbars from my friend Larry Medwig. He pinstriped them, and they are beautiful. I love the little arrows on these things. The crashbar is the early 36 style, which everybody calls a three piece crashbar, but in reality there are over 25 pieces to it!


Check out the little square. I love this motorcycle!



And I finally finished plating the lower spring plates. They are a real hassle to do. They are gun blued, then clear coated. All of the reproduction ones are parkerized, which isn't quite right. They are good now though, so that is all that matters!

UPDATES!

Tim headed back to the uk today. we wheeled his bike out for a couple pictures. It is 80 percent done. He did all of the work and did a good job. It was fun having him around and teaching him new things. I am looking forward to seeing him in Daytona in February. This working relationship was good practice for when Ryan shows up in a couple weeks to rebuild his 45 that he won in the essay contest. I am a lot better teacher now, than I was before tim showed up.



I also got the wheels for my sears, they are awesome! I have a different set of rims that I am going to lace up to them. The front hub is aluminum, and the spokes are stainless, so I can get the front wheel put back together lickity split, the rear hub has to be re plated though.



There were a couple of these little tubes in some of the boxes I thought that they were neat.

Wiring shots of TIm's bike

I ran these wires a little shorter than stock ones, they look great!


Since Tim is running a mag, he cant put it in the stock position, We relocated it to the clutch pedal backing plate, It is a tidy set up, and I like it a lot.

Tim's bike!

Here is Tim on his rolling chassis.


Here is the motor before the pushrods were installed. It has parkerized early 36 frogeyes. It looks really neat



HEre it is installed in the frame with all of the oil lines on it. My friend doug did all of the nickel plating, it is perfect!




Here is the jewelery pic. This is one of the prettiest motors that we have ever done. Check out the nickel plated pushrod tubes, parkerized frogeyes and all of the other neat details. I really like this one. It is difficult to improve on the looks of a knucklehead engine, but we did it this time.

left front motor mount fix

Here is a front motor mount that has been repaired. The weld is good and strong, it is just a little excessive and needs some trimming.


I roughed in the front and side in this pic, and I also laid out where to grind.

And the finished product!

rims, covers, and cookies

Jesse took the muffler cover off of my dad's 49 today. We are shipping it to a friend out east who is going to make a very small run of them. Hopefully he can do a good job of accurately reproducing them and still be cost effective. We will see. Shoot me an email if you are interested in one or two.



This weekend my dad, tim and I went to the black hills for the AMCA Black Hills Chapter christmas party. I got some rims pinstriped while we were there. They look great. These black cream and red rims are for a 45 wl bobber that Iam working on.



HEre are the rims for my 1914 sears. They are pretty flashy, and kind of remind me of a box of animal crackers. The sears bike is going to be a real looker.

tim's paint! and some muscle cars.

We picked up tims sheetmetal today. It turned out really well. I love working with Mike Schwaub. He restores muscle cars, and really gets the concept of fixing stuff up.


Here is the front fender. It is awesome!



Here is some mopar car that Mike is working on, It is kind of a rootbear orange.




Check out all the details under this hood. Mike is an obsessive nerd with this stuff. We have a lot in common, he cares as much about all the little details on cars as I do on bikes. I love working with him.






Here is a motor ready to be installed. I kind of feel bad for car guys, they work so hard on the details, and it all gets covered up by a hood.