Mr. BILL is a National Treasure and needs to be protected all costs.Originally Posted by Highstrung
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Mr. BILL is a National Treasure and needs to be protected all costs.
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This thread is awesome. You frickin' melanin-deficients can make dang near anything. Major props.
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That bike is gonna make a lot of women pregnant just looking at it.
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Always enjoy your threads. Land Rovers, Choppers, what next?
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"Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees"- Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
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Thanks.
Paint came in today which has taken forever. Have a couple samples getting sprayed this week and hoping to get that wrapped up in the next couple weeks. I’ll save my color choice as a surprise.
I think my Mom and Dad both generally approve of my hobby….which is slightly surprising. I am 99% sure my mom would ride with me.
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Those Paugho drags, paired with the shovel will be sweet , sweet , music. Keep up the good work.
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Well I don't, and I have feelings sometimes.
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The only music I hear is AC~DC’s Ride On when I look at this thread.
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Pretty good progress. I am as far as I can go without my tank and rear fender back from paint.
I’ve really been working on putting everything together…….lots of hardware, shit piles of loctite and taking my time getting things wired and plumbed. I have everything wired with the exception of the rear tail light, but I need the actual painted fender back before finishing it.
A couple of little things I altered from my original plan:
- The handle bars…….These bars came from Prism supply and have integral risers and I think look way cooler than the apes…..I just wasn’t digging them. I had them chromed when I sent the rest of my stuff off. I have worked pretty hard to keep the bars clean and avoiding anything on what would be the clutch side. I did not want to mount a high beam switch on the bars, so I decided to try and mount one in the head light itself. I went to West Marine and bought a waterproof switch and used it, I think it turned out pretty good.
- Swing Arm and Suspension……..I think the first set of shocks I had were going to be too short and bottom the bike out with me on it. The next size up made the rear sit too tall for my liking, so I found an aftermarket adjustable swing arm. It came raw and I had it chromed as well. I can now adjust the rear ride height by 2.5 inches up or down.
Here are a few updated pics.
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Dang the duplicates…….
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In case you didn't know
Sanitary! Post a vid when you fire it off.
Gettin old is for pussies! AND MY NEW TRUE people say like Capt. Tom >>>>>>>>>/
"Wow, often imitated but never duplicated. No one can do it like the master. My hat is off to you DRDUCK!"
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Will do, hoping in the next couple weeks.
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I’ve not updated this in quite some time.
I got my tins back from paint and my painter did an amazing job. Base coat is Root Beer with Gold Flames. Lots of metal flake, lots of air brush, lots of hand painting and a shit load of clear coat. Turned out better than I could have asked for.
Got everything back together and had my first start about 3 weeks ago. I got it fired up after a while and went through about 5 heat cycles………1-2 minutes each, shut down and cooled to room temperature. Got it on the road for a little ride and really could not get things running right. Shitty idle, hanging high revs when fully let off the throttle and just not great running.
After spending an entire afternoon checking 100 things I fixed a definite intake manifold leak and figured out my cylinder heads were leaking (with Carb Cleaner Spray). Really irritated me as I spent a lot of money having this motor built.
Anyway, I have pulled the whole damn motor apart. I took the cylinder heads off, pulled the cylinders. I do not have a blown head gasket, but definitely had oil leaking into the pistons causing a little white smoke and also causing a leak on the outside of the gasket. I can take my finger and feel air coming out a the 3:00 position between the cylinder head and cylinder on the front. You can see it in the pictures.
I took everything to a guy not far from me and he decked the cylinders and heads with lapping compound and got them as flat as he could. The cylinder head has inserts for the head bolts and if I take any more material off, I’ll need to either countersink the inserts or figure something else out. I used a much better head gasket than what was on there when I put it back together.
Anyway, I got it back together tonight and it’s still running like shit. I am trying to figure out if I still have a leak in the head or if I am jetted wrong or both. I have carb stumbling and an erratic idle leading me to believe both things are happening. I am trying to rule things out one by one. I increased the size of my intermediate jet and will see tomorrow what happens. I plan on re-torquing the head when it’s cold and trying again.
Lot’s of bullshit, but am trying to narrow down the punchlist. Frustrated as the motor should be 100%.
Bike looks good though.
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Bike is BADASS but I got to ask----Why not take it back to the fellow that you paid alot of money to fix it? Just saying. You get in a bind I still think I got friends I can lean on to help you out. The bike is awsome!
Gettin old is for pussies! AND MY NEW TRUE people say like Capt. Tom >>>>>>>>>/
"Wow, often imitated but never duplicated. No one can do it like the master. My hat is off to you DRDUCK!"
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I am somewhat lazy typing……..sorry.
I spoke to the man that built the motor week before last. We discussed re-tourqing the heads to 70 pounds instead of the 65 pounds which is what the book calls for. I did that with no success and he went to sturgiss last week (he is 90+ years old by the way). The gaskets he used are really not great. They are the blue gaskets made by a company named James. I swapped gaskets to a Cometic Gasket that is .041” thick and is much better quality hoping that would fix my issue. Obviously, it has not.
I’m going to call him Monday and see what he says.
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90 and still going to Sturgis, I'm jealous!
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What is that hideous motif.. It's hard to think the Chessbay I know would go with some Peter Millar patterns, like cocktails or something
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It’s a 70’s Chopper, what did you expect!
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