Thursday 27 March 2014

A garage!

After too many years I've finally got a garage! Got our new house after a load of bother, and it has a little house on the side for bikes to live in.

The day after getting the keys sumo dropped the pan off to me, and here it sits in it's loverly new home until I have the reg documents in hand!

Thursday 13 March 2014

Narrowing a wide glide

I picked up a spare set of yokes that will run on the pan, the wide glide front end is cool, but I'm thinking that I want to run a 21" wheel. A skinny front wheel in wideglide yokes doesn't look good to me, so they need to go on a diet!

I did some hunting on the net (and insta) and found a couple of pics of where people have done it in the past.

After some measuring I cut 2 inches out the middle.

I then marked up an old bit if scrap casting that I got cheap. Made a great flat bed to clamp the pieces to.

Welded up well, put deep chamfers on each edge to help with the strength of the weld when I clean it up (thanks to panhead Dave on insta for the advice) That's as far as I got for now...

Tuesday 4 March 2014

Tank update

I was getting loads of voids and inconsistencies with the lead, so I've had to consider other options. I was thinking of making either a conductive filler or paint to allow me to fill it in and still plate, but that's not looking so positive.

I have done some research and now there are paint processes that are just like chrome. I got a quote and it looks like plan b or c (whatever it is now) is going into full effect. Primer,loads of filler and even more elbow grease then off for the specialist coating.