Dusty's Bonneville Scout Build

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Dusty-Dave
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Been building and riding since the 60s. My last contest build made The Horse BC last year "Home Built Indian" and had a 40 Indian in the TCU section of the Horse BC the year before.
Iv'e answered to Dusty since 69
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Dusty
Location: northern New Mexico

Re: Dusty's Bonneville Scout Build

Post by Dusty-Dave »

I know that the shaft was fubar but this is ridiculous I'm into it .060 and its barely starting to cut on the exhaust turbine side.
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Finaly cleaned up bout .030 before the 10mm I was shooting for. Definitely had me worried.
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Dusty
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I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe
But at least I'm enjoying the ride, at least I'll enjoy the ride.
Dusty-Dave
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SELF INTRODUCTION: Hi,
Been building and riding since the 60s. My last contest build made The Horse BC last year "Home Built Indian" and had a 40 Indian in the TCU section of the Horse BC the year before.
Iv'e answered to Dusty since 69
Thanks
Dusty
Location: northern New Mexico

Re: Dusty's Bonneville Scout Build

Post by Dusty-Dave »

Finally got the rest of the bearings and a few minutes for me. So I washed everything up and dropped three bearings into the belt side a short spring then a final bearing on the compressor side. Everything felt so good that I bolted up the inner volute cover without pictures oops.
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Everything still felt good so I screwed the impeller on.
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After the Impeller was loctited and torqued the thrust was spot on so I installed the outer volute cover.
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Then cuz it was handy I gave it a coat of BBQ Metallic Black.
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That's all on the blower till I get a place to put it built.
Dusty
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I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe
But at least I'm enjoying the ride, at least I'll enjoy the ride.
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budoka
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SELF INTRODUCTION: I'm a Kentucky boy who's found himself transplanted into Japan. been into turning wrenches as long as i can remember. i love muscle cars, hotrod bikes, and the martial arts.

been a member of this board since back when it was a part of Chopperweb. been handling the tech side and sharing the admin duties for several years now.
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Re: Dusty's Bonneville Scout Build

Post by budoka »

sharp! ain't it nice when ya get a few minutes to use for own project? keep on rollin'!

-dan
-experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
http://knuckleheadsummer.blogspot.com/
Dusty-Dave
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Posts: 284
Joined: Sun Dec 01, 2013 4:43 pm
SELF INTRODUCTION: Hi,
Been building and riding since the 60s. My last contest build made The Horse BC last year "Home Built Indian" and had a 40 Indian in the TCU section of the Horse BC the year before.
Iv'e answered to Dusty since 69
Thanks
Dusty
Location: northern New Mexico

Re: Dusty's Bonneville Scout Build

Post by Dusty-Dave »

Got thru welding and soda blasting these trans cases today. So I decided to run them thru the dishwasher after Carol was in the back bedroom. Dammit she let me know that I wasn't fooling anybody she could smell the oil washing out of the pores in the aluminum. Since I'm already in the doghouse, I think I'll run it again just to be sure.
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Dusty
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I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe
But at least I'm enjoying the ride, at least I'll enjoy the ride.
Dusty-Dave
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Posts: 284
Joined: Sun Dec 01, 2013 4:43 pm
SELF INTRODUCTION: Hi,
Been building and riding since the 60s. My last contest build made The Horse BC last year "Home Built Indian" and had a 40 Indian in the TCU section of the Horse BC the year before.
Iv'e answered to Dusty since 69
Thanks
Dusty
Location: northern New Mexico

Re: Dusty's Bonneville Scout Build

Post by Dusty-Dave »

Started putting the first trans together today.Got ready to attach the sprocket and I'm out of nuts. They might be a tiny bit special at 1 3/16" 24tpi and around a 1/4" thick.Checked online and $17.00 each plus $8 for shipping seems like the best price unless I do a large order from eastern. So I took a grade 8 1" nut that was well rusted and cut some 1 3/16"x24 threads.
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Checking the fit on the sprocket driver gear.
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Parting off with the only part off tool that is narrow enough to let me get three nuts.
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In place and rattle wrench tight.
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Dusty
Last edited by Dusty-Dave on Fri Jul 28, 2017 11:30 pm, edited 1 time in total.
I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe
But at least I'm enjoying the ride, at least I'll enjoy the ride.
Dusty-Dave
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Posts: 284
Joined: Sun Dec 01, 2013 4:43 pm
SELF INTRODUCTION: Hi,
Been building and riding since the 60s. My last contest build made The Horse BC last year "Home Built Indian" and had a 40 Indian in the TCU section of the Horse BC the year before.
Iv'e answered to Dusty since 69
Thanks
Dusty
Location: northern New Mexico

Re: Dusty's Bonneville Scout Build

Post by Dusty-Dave »

Since I am only planing to start it with a hand held starter motor. I am going to need a pair of kickstart ratchets that pull when the piece nearest you is rotated to the right and slips when turned to the left. Which is backwards to anything I have. Most any pair of ratchets that were for a 250 or larger should be adaptable. Anybody got anything in their junk? Or even a suggestion of sumptin that would be cheap?  If I have to I can make a pair but that means I have to either work in prehard or harden them.

Dusty
I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe
But at least I'm enjoying the ride, at least I'll enjoy the ride.
Dusty-Dave
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Posts: 284
Joined: Sun Dec 01, 2013 4:43 pm
SELF INTRODUCTION: Hi,
Been building and riding since the 60s. My last contest build made The Horse BC last year "Home Built Indian" and had a 40 Indian in the TCU section of the Horse BC the year before.
Iv'e answered to Dusty since 69
Thanks
Dusty
Location: northern New Mexico

Re: Dusty's Bonneville Scout Build

Post by Dusty-Dave »

Bought a closeout rebuilt starter for some jap car in fleebay for $14.59 to make my starter out of.


Turned the nose cone off and machined a bearing holder to slide into what's left of the nose come. Damn thing ran backwards so I had to rotate the brushes a quarter turn.
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Next time I get the desire to work with something harder than a carbide tool I'll make this ratchet fit the starter and the one just like it that's under the starter to make it set kinda level fit the transmission shaft.
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I'm trying out Postimg.org since everybody is having troubles with photobucket.

Dusty
Last edited by Dusty-Dave on Thu Jul 27, 2017 11:13 pm, edited 1 time in total.
I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe
But at least I'm enjoying the ride, at least I'll enjoy the ride.
Dusty-Dave
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Posts: 284
Joined: Sun Dec 01, 2013 4:43 pm
SELF INTRODUCTION: Hi,
Been building and riding since the 60s. My last contest build made The Horse BC last year "Home Built Indian" and had a 40 Indian in the TCU section of the Horse BC the year before.
Iv'e answered to Dusty since 69
Thanks
Dusty
Location: northern New Mexico

Re: Dusty's Bonneville Scout Build

Post by Dusty-Dave »

Got tired of dreading turning the splines out of those ratchets so I started today. No way I was gonna be able to take an interrupted, cut tool steel wont touch it and a carbide insert wont handle that kind of interruption. So I dug the tool post grinder out and reached in with a 4mm diamond .

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Left a little of the spline on this one to hold it straight.

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Ground then filed (diamond file) so it would engage the flats.

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Dusty
I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe
But at least I'm enjoying the ride, at least I'll enjoy the ride.
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budoka
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SELF INTRODUCTION: I'm a Kentucky boy who's found himself transplanted into Japan. been into turning wrenches as long as i can remember. i love muscle cars, hotrod bikes, and the martial arts.

been a member of this board since back when it was a part of Chopperweb. been handling the tech side and sharing the admin duties for several years now.
Location: Fuefuki Shi, Japan
Contact:

Re: Dusty's Bonneville Scout Build

Post by budoka »

getting into the down and dirty of it eh? that's the stuff i like (at least the first time, LOL).

take care,
-dan
-experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
http://knuckleheadsummer.blogspot.com/
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Re: Dusty's Bonneville Scout Build

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man dude...some real cool shit.
Changing the shape of the Earth...1 bucket at a time...IUOE local 825 top of the food chain
Dusty-Dave
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Posts: 284
Joined: Sun Dec 01, 2013 4:43 pm
SELF INTRODUCTION: Hi,
Been building and riding since the 60s. My last contest build made The Horse BC last year "Home Built Indian" and had a 40 Indian in the TCU section of the Horse BC the year before.
Iv'e answered to Dusty since 69
Thanks
Dusty
Location: northern New Mexico

Re: Dusty's Bonneville Scout Build

Post by Dusty-Dave »

The top of that cylinder With the dreaded crack from the valve seat to the bore.
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The seats don't look so good either
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The lady at the garage sale thought she was selling a $10.00 pizza and sandwich oven. But with $7.00 of scrap stainless from the scrap yard to raise the top 6" its a $17.00 kiln.
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Changed back to fairly soft cast iron repair powder for the crack.
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Started with a gentile long feather flame to heat the whole top.
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Why I don't wrap the asbestos over the ports!
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Closing the crack
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Starting the seats with the RC40 powder
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Starting to flow.
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Backing off and gently reducing the flame and heating the whole top.
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The preheated ceramic tile still broke when I put it on the top.
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That's all untill the hardened seat stones I ordered get here, the ruby general purpose 35 degree stones I have wont touch it.
Dusty
I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe
But at least I'm enjoying the ride, at least I'll enjoy the ride.
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I dont know if I can think of enough to say to reach the two hundred charactor minimun set by the mods , but I will persevere
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Re: Dusty's Bonneville Scout Build

Post by gearhead1951 »

I have resurfaced the super hard vlv seats in a US submarines steam throttle chest with a mild steel mandrel and diamond dust vlv lapping compound !
Bolted a jig to the top of the chest to hold the mandrel in proper alignment and turned it with a pneumatic drill motor !
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Re: Dusty's Bonneville Scout Build

Post by curt »

amazing how clean those parts get coming from the dishwasher . i use high heat and sanitizing mode . the real trick is to know when she is going to be gone for at least 4hours .
ever notice when you hit somethin or someone with a hammer you feel instantly better
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Re: Dusty's Bonneville Scout Build

Post by friday »

great to see cylinder getting new life . theres a tonne of those needing the same treatment
Dusty-Dave
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Posts: 284
Joined: Sun Dec 01, 2013 4:43 pm
SELF INTRODUCTION: Hi,
Been building and riding since the 60s. My last contest build made The Horse BC last year "Home Built Indian" and had a 40 Indian in the TCU section of the Horse BC the year before.
Iv'e answered to Dusty since 69
Thanks
Dusty
Location: northern New Mexico

Re: Dusty's Bonneville Scout Build

Post by Dusty-Dave »

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The bolt lugs had pulled almost .010 toward the center in only 81 years. The weld smoothed into a nicart of the gasket surface.
Dusty
I may be going to hell in a bucket, babe
But at least I'm enjoying the ride, at least I'll enjoy the ride.
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