Toy Run

My daddy and I went down to the sioux falls for the toy run for the crippled children's hospital.
We originally planned on bringing the 39 down for ole to ride, but he hurt his hand a couple of weeks ago, so he couldn't drive a bike.

Here is my dad heading over to the legion to pick up santa



All of the kids got presents, and some of the kids came out of the hospital to sit on the bike. It was a really special experience. I was really impressed by the whole operation and inspired by the nurses and staff that work with these kids every day.

Took the day off to work on my sears!

Here is the left case for my sears motor. It is pretty unconventional when compared to a set of pan or knuckle cases. There are two sets of flywheels in a spacke engine, go to www.pre1916scramble.blogspot.com to see some pics of my bottom end.




These are the shafts out of my friend Marty's top fuel motor. It made 800 horsepower. He kept pulling tapers, so he made up these hex shafts, and cut hexes into the flywheels with an e.d.m. He couldn't true the flywheels, so the machine work had to be 100 percent accurate. This is a cool idea that I plan on adapting to the sears.

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Jesse and I started to work on this 49 today. The rear fender needed a little repair, so we pulled it off.


Somebody cut the chainguard insert out, so we are going to weld in a different one from another fender and paint it to match. The bike has a lot of other details that need to be gone over as well. It should be a fun project.



I showed up at work early this morning and mounted Tim's exhaust. We just got it back from the painter, and the safest spot to store it was on the bike!




Here are a couple sets of panheads that my daddy has to finish up. They are ready to go together! One set is for a 65 and the other set is for a 48. They are so different from each other.

Larry's Oil Tank Repair Fix part 1

This is my friend's 46 oil tank. Somebody messed up the oil line fittings. So I had it sent to The infamous world renowned Larry Medwig. Larry did the fix, and sent me the pics to post on this site, so all of you could see how the pros do it!


HEre is a standard repro fitting from colony.



Getting ready to cut the hex off.




Where did it go! Larry is the man!

Larry's Oil Tank Nipple Repair part 2

Here is one of the nipples getting cut off.


Time to cut off the messed up nipples



Here are the old ones next to the replacement ones.




WHOA





The holes have been drilled out in this pic, and now they are being de burred

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!

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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.