It's Thursday and back to work

Well, not a whole lot went on today. It rained some this morning and is still raining as I type, yadda-yadda-yadda, on to the good stuff - Gearhead Porn LOL

Well, finished putting Nature Boy's kicker together today, all the pieces I made up on Tuesday were nice and dry from the rattle can paint job I gave them. Got them all bolted in place first thing this morning then started finishing up the rest, I decided that since it was an old 4-spd kicker it just had to be bolted up the old fashioned way, fat stainless steel acorn nuts! Bossman had bought a bunch of stainless button head cap screws originally, he gets a woody over the damn things, everything he puts together gets 'em. I can't stand them anymore, LOL. But button heads just didn't look right to me, come on, it's an old fashoned 4-spd kicker, it screams "Acorn nuts!". I made short work of a piece of 5/16th threaded rod with my handy cutoff wheel and made up studs for the case, along with my handy-dandy home-made stud install tool, I had it all set to go in a matter of minutes. Of course it took a bit longer to get the damn thing on, holes never line up perfectly when your dealing with different manfacturer's parts, hell, sometimes even with the same manufacturer they don't line up just right. Next tool out of the toolbox, the offical Harley Davidson fine adjustment tool, (for those of you not familar with it, it's a 3 lb dead blow hammer). After a couple of minutes "discussion", it decided to go into place and I was able to tighten ever thing down and fill the tranny back up with fluid. Then came the easy stuff, putting the fuel tank back on and cleaning up a few bits and pieces here and there. After finishing up there, I moved onto the next project in line, mocking up the new rear fender and struts on a Fat Boy that's getting a 200 rear tire. I was in the groove buy then and it only took me about 20 minutes to get the fender and struts fitted and mounted in place. Then spent about 30 minutes cutting and fitting a set of filler pieces for the side skirts since they just weren't the right shape.

Well, that's about all for tonight, tommorrow will be welding the struts and filler pieces to the fender and making sure nothing warped to badly, then it's on to the stinky job, making a new seat pan for it.

I just love the smell of fiberglass in the morning.