The Chopper Compendium

Meanwhile, I need to improve that front brake on the 62 pan, I had originally set up a rotor and caliper from an '85 Suzuki Madura motorcycle, fabbing adapters to my '62 FL front forks and star hub: http://www.wheelsmaui.com/UserFiles/Image/62FLProject5/62PanRebuild569s_Sep2017.JPG Looking at a dril...

I need to find more aggressive front brake pads, if I can't, I need to learn how to modify the pads I have to be more aggressive. Ah ha, a future worthy project. Gee, I'm sure glad I do not have enough projects to keep me busy.... (somebody shoot me....)

As I also have a small "farm" where I put in a lot of hours, I've been in there a lot as tight on water on Maui right now. And need to get the mc for the '62 hawg rear brake working. That old hard plunger finally failed, and I need to fit that oversized new plunger, by reaming a bit until ...

The bike rides quite well though, once I get the "gremlins" worked out of it, it should be a solid ride. There's still lots of the typical vibration for a bike of that era, I put a mirror on it for the "safety inspection", which is required here in Hawaii for all motor vehicles, ...

Thanks, not sure what if anything I'm going to do with that. Once the bike's moving it's fine, just pushing it around a parking lot gets to me sometimes... Rode it about 50 miles yesterday, at about 25 miles out, the mc for the rear brake went south, pedal all the way down, no resistance, looked for...

I built this VT as instructed with 62 degrees of rake. And surprise surprise it had incredible chopper flop just like I told him before we started. If I narrowed the steering stops enough to prevent flop it would only steer a few degrees. I mooved the axle to the top of the sliders and put wide bar...

Now I'm dealing with the local bureaucracy to get this bike licensed for the street. It was previously licensed in it's present form from 1969 to 1989, but they seem to be wanting to apply new rules, so let's see where this leads....

The other problem I ran into was that the throttle on the handlebar was loose, even with screws tightened up all the way, have run into that before, so I tapped and put a 10-24 allen head bolt under the relief in the throttle clamp, it will not pull off any more.... http://www.wheelsmaui.com/UserFil...

I have a 2010 Dyna that sez: "Do me, Do me, Do me......" Let's see how long I live.... Thanks guys, The bike is running quite nicely, but having some throttle wide open cut outs, think it is just that the carb is open ended, air flowing past that open carb goes vacuum, and a good filter ca...

Think I need a kicker plate on that exhaust pipe,
then re wrap the pipe leaving the plate exposed...

Got some miles on the bike, about 40 total, no vid unfortunately, my iphone camera not working right... Some tuning, got it running quite well, and parked it at home next to my 2010 Dyna... http://www.wheelsmaui.com/UserFiles/Image/62FLProject5/62PanRebuild561s_Aug2017.JPG Posted more pix HERE....

Yeah, the last time I rode that bike I was about 50, I sure don't remember that front end being that "heavy" at low speeds. It lightens up considerably when you get moving. But horsing it around in the garage and out in the yard, Oooofff !!!! The rake is 45 degrees, compared to stock being...

Fired up the bike while it was up on the table, took a dozen kicks or so, but it ran well, needs a little fine tuning on the carb, and the timing, but no problems that I could see, so time to put it back on the ground.... http://www.wheelsmaui.com/UserFiles/Image/62FLProject5/62_Panhead_2as_Aug2017....

Thanks, it was a very dependable and fun ride for about 20 years, until I just wore it out and parked it in the shed, and started riding newer stuff. Hope I've got it so's I can enjoy it the same for many more years... The old 16 over tubes for the front end I had originally gotten from "Forkin...

Yup, the carb float is working, a little fuel went in and then it stopped...
And no leaks...
Gettin' close to start up....