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Sometimes the things that aren't broken are the ones that need fixed the most. Couldn't stand the huge & ugly stock clamp, so I shaved up the lever & fabbed a new weld on mount. I'll get better pics after I test it out & get it completely finished.

Z's...

Finnish welding.

Then give 'em the minus touch with a little satan black.

Mounted.

Now just need to figure out how to extend my clutch cable without spending sixty bucks. Stay tooned.

z-bars

A little early morning fab before work.

a little progress

Pulled the clutch hub/ rotor last night found exactly the scenario I've been reading about. Magnets had let loose & destroyed the stator in the process. You can see the shield over the magnets of the new rotor, hopefully eliminating this problem for ever. There is a big difference in the strength of the magnets however. The magnets on the new rotor are much weaker than the ones on the old factory part. Hopefully that won't be a problem.

Here's where it got interesting. The piece pictured in the center rotates independently in the clutch hub, but when I installed it in the new hub I couldn't get it to set in far enough & it also would not rotate at all. So I pulled it back apart & upon further inspection I found that the c-clips are totally different & that the ears on the new one were causing the whole problem. A quick swap & I was back in business. A quick fix, but How has this been over looked; & worse, what if I hadn't caught it???

finnish...

This one for Lionel.

breathe....

Emissions is a government conspiracy to gum up your carbinator. Everyone knows your vapors should vent to the atmosphere choking off some far away endangered specie. How else is a motorcycle going to get that manly smell without having gasoline & oil ooozing from it's poors?

donut

Stole this photo from Church. Now this is an idea I wish I had thought of years ago! Could have used one of these a time or 3.

Done

The paint is not perfect, but it's rattle can any way, so it's done for now. Maybe some day when we fall in to a bunch of money, I'll break down & have all the parts on my bikes powder coated... Yeah right.

mean

New wheels from QCB Mike in Texas; done with new bearings & new treads, all in glorious glorious black! I'm getting very excited about this build; it's getting meaner & meaner.

Fresh meat! Mmmm....

bars

Just gave these Honda Shadow bars a serious tune up. I cut about 7 inches from the middle & took about 40 degrees from the pull back.

covert operations

Sprocket cover the way god intended. Just need some finish sanding & paint.

44mm

Factory speed equipment. Cool.

bars

About 10 inches with a 15 degree crick in the neck.

shift knob

Finished this one today. Big thanks to my father in law Steve for the wood I used! I'll run this in the Dodge when It's finished. God I'm going to miss my lathe.

church keys

From my Uncle Lawrence's place. One has what looks like a date of '59.

shift knob

Made this from an old oxygen cylinder valve & a bottle cap.

Glass Bowl Fuel Filter

This belongs to the Dodge. Originally it should have had a ceramic filter element inside the bowl, but since it was missing I utilized a paper element from NAPA Auto & made a copper spacer to make it all work.