Yes, life ain´t just motorcycles.
Finally the scratchbuilt cage was done. The frame I made of 20mm square tubing.
I even made the grid out of welding rods and jointed it with silicon bronze.
The little rascal in his new carhome.
Bombus Speedshop
Wrenchin' without supervision since the seventies...
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Monday, February 24, 2014
The dogcage
A dogcage?
Yes, life ain´t just motorcycles.
Finally the scratchbuilt cage was done. The frame I made of 20mm square tubing.
I even made the grid out of welding rods and jointed it with silicon bronze.
Yes, life ain´t just motorcycles.
Finally the scratchbuilt cage was done. The frame I made of 20mm square tubing.
I even made the grid out of welding rods and jointed it with silicon bronze.
Monday, January 13, 2014
Beltdrive issues + dogcage...
The beltdrive circus took of just as the parts landed here in Sweden.
But when I first mounted the new goodies distaster occured.
The belt was to short, or at least that was the outcome.
After talking to my friends who have been wrenchin Harleys since the seventies the common answer was that aftermarket parts are only so you don't had to develop the whole thing but the last bit is all up to you.
Hmmm, was it really this bad? Of Course it was. But thats half the fun.
As the quote goes "If It Was Easy Everyone Would Do It".
*Hehe*
Meassurement begun big style.
The 130 belt was waaaay to short and almost snapped the axels when I mounted it.
Next step in belts was 132 and with this it was waaaay to long.
So after some mails to BDL the nice people sent me a new motor pulley that is .020 undersize.
The project now is to reassemble it all with the new pulley and hope for the best.
But something that halted this project was arriving of a small puppy in our family.
The new little dog had to ride the car with style so the mammoth job of making a dog cage begun.
Have been working with this cage now on and of for two months and now finally I see the end of it.
So soon the belt/pulley problem solving would start again.
But when I first mounted the new goodies distaster occured.
The belt was to short, or at least that was the outcome.
After talking to my friends who have been wrenchin Harleys since the seventies the common answer was that aftermarket parts are only so you don't had to develop the whole thing but the last bit is all up to you.
Hmmm, was it really this bad? Of Course it was. But thats half the fun.
As the quote goes "If It Was Easy Everyone Would Do It".
*Hehe*
Meassurement begun big style.
The 130 belt was waaaay to short and almost snapped the axels when I mounted it.
Next step in belts was 132 and with this it was waaaay to long.
So after some mails to BDL the nice people sent me a new motor pulley that is .020 undersize.
The project now is to reassemble it all with the new pulley and hope for the best.
But something that halted this project was arriving of a small puppy in our family.
The new little dog had to ride the car with style so the mammoth job of making a dog cage begun.
Have been working with this cage now on and of for two months and now finally I see the end of it.
So soon the belt/pulley problem solving would start again.
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
The sixth winter (12/13)
The sixt winter ended a little different.
March 14 2013 I got a stroke that didn't affected the winter so much as me and my familys life.
Happy to say is that I got some riding done in the autum.
A stroke is often the end of riding for good. Even if my stroke started out pretty bad with no speak and almost paralyzed left side including my left eye I recovered quick after my brain surgery where they removed three clots.
But It ended well (so far) and I'm recovering strong and hopefully I will be back at work in beginning of 2014.
This winter became not so active as I planned. My time in the mancave was mostly filled with coffe and laughter. Not a bad complement to wrenching but the Shovel bagger got a little neglected for sure.
Main jobs was to remount the Dellorto carb again and finally get it running properly. The autum before it ran like a dream with the CV but when I felt stable enough for a bagger ride the mighty Shovelhead sounded a little sick. First I thougt it was the Dellorto causing the problem but I realized soon it was much worse problems involved.
# Valve seat
# Dellorto dynorun
March 14 2013 I got a stroke that didn't affected the winter so much as me and my familys life.
Happy to say is that I got some riding done in the autum.
A stroke is often the end of riding for good. Even if my stroke started out pretty bad with no speak and almost paralyzed left side including my left eye I recovered quick after my brain surgery where they removed three clots.
But It ended well (so far) and I'm recovering strong and hopefully I will be back at work in beginning of 2014.
This winter became not so active as I planned. My time in the mancave was mostly filled with coffe and laughter. Not a bad complement to wrenching but the Shovel bagger got a little neglected for sure.
Main jobs was to remount the Dellorto carb again and finally get it running properly. The autum before it ran like a dream with the CV but when I felt stable enough for a bagger ride the mighty Shovelhead sounded a little sick. First I thougt it was the Dellorto causing the problem but I realized soon it was much worse problems involved.
# Valve seat
# Dellorto dynorun
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