shed night ~ Wed 5th Oct

Jobs for the week:
buy a front & rear axle
get the rear hub painted & buy all the bearings & sprockets etc
head bolts all helicoiled
barrels bored to 50 thou over
exhaust port fixed

Spent the evening working on the front forks
had to remove all the powder coating from the front stays so we could pin it to the bell cranks
Chris found the right bolts to attach the spring to the forks.

still need a lot of adjusting to fit the wheel to the forks

mocked up some 741 handlebars to see how they looked

wheel is not in center & will have to be adjusted

still need to get the wheel hub cover, felt washer & cir clip on front hud so we can work out spacing

Got the bearings, axle, sprocket etc from Murray spending another $600 ! 

& bought some heat resistant paint. 

Then I taped up the bits of the 741 hub that i didnt want to paint & hit it with a heat resistant primer & enamel black top coat

I also have to cure them in an oven 

hmmmmmm

Will I use my own oven   hmmmmmm

Update Wed 12th Oct

 

 Dropped the barrels off to Harris Engineering to see if the rear one would clean up with a 5 thou hone ..... very doubtful

Then up to Wayne's.

The boys got stuck into fixing up the bell cranks for the front wheel. We had to create more space for the hub. Machine down the nuts & add thread. Lathe up some spacers for the outside nuts & machine an insert to reduce the axle size on my Norton hub.
Then drill in some split pin holes to secure the nut.
We got lucky as the wheel looks very close to centre.

Next step is to make spacers for the rear hub so we can lace my chief rim onto 741 hub

I put the hub in the bbq to bake the heat resistant paint