Gas tank and oil tank progress

Here is the gas tank and the oil tank after silver and a light flake paint job….

here is the start of the tedious task of taping the oil tank, with pictures of the gas tank to follow.

True that…. wheel

My son helping me out….. wheel done!

Rear wheel building 101

Put together my rear wheel for the 1969 build. Didn’t take long, most of the work was building the new hub up. I had to take the new hub to the lathe to chamfer the threads. Harley likes to peen them over and getting them started is a bitch unless you chamfer the edge. Anyway, I still have to true it up and I will probably do that tonight while the missus reads and I stare at bad TV…..

getting the old wheels guts out… and build the hub.

Lacing the wheel is easy if you have the old one to look at…..

Just follow the pattern…..

Done.

Motor is done…

I still have to make an adapter for the Roth air horn, but for the most part the engine is finished….

Cool choppers from Davenport

Saw these at Davenport, guys had some cool machines. Wish I stopped and talked to them, they had a good eye for what should be on a bike.





This guy has a sense of humor, and a cool bike.

Painted the 69 motor

It needed a little sprucing up after the rebuild, so I taped it off and hit it with a little high temp. paint.

1966 frame is done for the 69 Sporty build….

Here is the frame just got done clear coating it. It’s a dark metallic purple but looks kinda blue in the pictures for some reason. I am going to try to build the rear wheel this weekend, so I can make it a roller!!!!

Super Cycle is building a “Old 45″

Paughco is making a frame that accepts the 45″ old flatheads but uses a 4 speed tranny! Super Cycle bought one and I will probably be involved in building it with them. Should be a cool build!!!!

69 Frame progress

So the 69IH motor is rebuilt, so now on to the frame. I have a unmolested 1969 frame that goes with the engine, but I also have a 1966 frame that has a weld-on hard tail that was done kinda half-assed. So I’m keeping the 69 frame so if I or the next owner want to go stock later it can be done. I had to heat the frame and pound the backbone down, then weld and grind, weld and grind till it looked clean.


Then I sandblasted it and primer’d the sucker….

Then a coat of dark purple…

Next clear, then the oil tank gets silver flake then the same dark purple over top…..

Davenport pt2

Some of the non-American iron that was at Davenport.