Saturday, September 27, 2014

Flat Track Knucklehead Progress - Air Cleaner, Seat, More Clutch Hub

How a Caveman tries to improve air flow
Take a scraped Superior Bird Air Cleaner cover...

Measure and drill four holes in rear side of cover 2 in apart

Gradually make holes bigger...

Glass bead chrome and install...


and there you have it...

Time to (semi) ruin a seat T...
I used a later T (60's)

Trusty grinder for the rivets...

Ready for re-purposing...

Removal of reinforcement bracket

Pealing apart

Reinforcement bracket...

I had this previously cut and drilled "T" bracket from when I was a kid. I used it for a Bates seat and also for an H-D narrow solo seat (hence multiple holes and not so great trimming job). I will reuse the smaller reinforcement bracket as well...

Crude but effective...

Not real happy with the "new"look of this new seat 
on this bike...may have to do some digging...

Later left and Early right
If you utilize a "Super Nut" with seal on the trans sprocket and have an early clutch hub you need to take some material off the back of the hub so that the hub does not bottom out on the nut. You can see the difference in late and early above...

Grinder time...

Don't have to be too precise...just grind it down

That's enough...

Just enough for an air gap between the nut and hub...
(First time using the arrows)



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