hubs and tanks and all the good things in life

Check out the nos victory tank emblem gaskets. These are so damn cool. I have a pretty good stash of nos ones, but eventually I will have to make up some victory stamps and stamp my own.

It is starting to look like an actual bike.

woo hoo. I got some stepped hubs back from Lee today. We send them off to be hard chromed, then ground back down to standard size. I did this on my 36 hubs and they have held up really well. They are good for at least 95 mph.

This is the hot set up. Now we just have to metal finish the hub and take them over to get painted.

Carb pics

Some of our friends From the motor company are flying my dad and I out to York to do a tour and talk to some of the employees on wednesday. We will be back on Sunday. So I am trying to get some projects ready for Jesse and Ray to work on. My dad is gearing up to do a batch of carbs.... like 18 of them! All of the bowls in the front row are for early nickle plated carbs, that are still off at the platers.


Here is a dirty nasty bowl for a 45 that probably has not been cleaned since it was new!



This raised casting code is in all 38 and earlier aluminum bowls




The upper left bowl is for Jim's 36, the lower right one is a bowl that I have been holding on to for years. It is the hardest to find linkert bowl of all time, It isn't mentioned in any books, I have only seen two other ones. It is for super late 38s. It has the early casting date on the inside, and is machined with a fly cutter before the drain is drilled and tapped. Later ones were counter bored-drilled andthen tapped. Anyways, I am going to put it on Jim's 38 carb. I have to do a wild fix on the stem hole, but it will be worth it.

plating continues

Still working on the plating. Here are some hydra glide neck cups. To remove the race, you just run a bead inside of them and the heat pulls the race into itself, then it pops right out.


WHOA, a few of them had nasty grease and paint on them, which started on fire! it was intense.



HEre is a clutch arm that I scored for one of the 36s that we are doing. somebody bent it up a long time ago.

Here it is all straightened out and with some filler where there were dents and chips in the metal.

All sanded down and ready to use. It was a lot of work, but it is always great to make something out of nothing. there is a lot of other neat stuff going on, but I usually just take pics of what I am working on. hope all of you are having a great day.