The Chopper Compendium

gearhead1951 wrote:that sensor boss on the left side can be safely ground away you know !

Unfortunately these are repops and the boss is hollow. Wanted too but would only end up
with a big hole. Course ya only discover this once their in hand.

Whacked the offending portions, grinder to get the contour and casting lines/flash, 80 grit sander for cleanup and purtify. Time to degrease then its off to the blast cabinet to return some of the cast look to the polished areas and a coat of Hi temp stainless header paint partially cured at 500f in...

Picked up some rams horn exh manifolds from Speedway in their garage sale section. One was installed/returned, and the other had a generator mount hole offset drilled. Cutting off the gen mounts anyhoo and the installed one looks like it was only opened. The garage sale discount covered the shipping...

Nice looking lines. 25.5 inch rubber to rubber can only add to its appeal.

Did you send your axles out for cut and re-spline or do them inhouse?

Dan, thanks for the pic's. Looks to have been a good time wandering about takin in the sights.

Jeff L wrote:...snippage ...I have looked for a 3 cylinder mag... I haven't been able to come up with any.

John Deere 1020 is a three cylinder. Not sure what type ignition system they use though.

Harking back to the first photo in the thread, when its all done a ready to go definitely need a video of
you getting up the stairs to the outside.

Way to go Maz. Some good exposure amongst the target audience.

"snippage" I'm the King of jury-rigging so nothing bothers me with respect to procedures but other people can get pretty anal about stuff. Most folks here actually do stuff in the real world so they understand about wrapping emery cloth around your finger but at some other places most peo...

Thanks Gary. Appreciate it. Have added them to my Chopper Builders CD folder.

Picked up a bead roller from JD2 bout 20 yrs ago. Needless to say they don't deal in that anymore. So looking about for a new variety of dies I stumble across the following info. Might be of interest to someone. (other than me :lol: ) This is for a guy that makes dies, just need to tell him the bran...

Three women go down to Mexico one night to celebrate college graduation. They get drunk, and wake up in jail, only to discover that they are to be executed in the morning, though none of them can remember what they did the night before. The first one, a redhead, is strapped in the electric chair and...

Well got the springer built. There is a part that bolts the two spring rods together at the top, it's called the spring bridge. Is that necessary to have? I noticed most springers do not have it, but the plans from gary does. I made it, I just think it looks better without it. With it already made ...

Was piddling about the NY DMV site and pulled this out of the mess of online forms.

As Curt mentioned, allthread rod and big washers work like a charm. Here's and example of whats sold
for putting in cups and races. The offset hole is to allow use on raked cups