Death of a garden

Cliff Burton said it best, "To live is to die."

24 Weeks

16 to go

Results from the Brooks auction

Results

Wow... some screamin steals, some not so much. And some people walked away with some cool shit!

1982 Ariel bobber went for $1840!
Yet the 48 SQ4 went for $8000+

a 1951 Goldstar for $7500...

1958 AJS dirtbike for $2000...

The 1947 Velocette KTT for $7500...
The 1948 Velocette KSS bobber for $4500

And all the expensive Indian stuff which makes me glad I'm not into Indians...

Luka video test

How to kill 90 minutes of your evening

Now to do the other one.

Case Issues Up Close

A gallery of all the issues with my cases. I'm debating sealing everything up and retapping back to Whitworth from 1/4-20.

Care Package

I'm not able to make a trip up to Grass Valley to see the boys anytime soon, so I'm sending my cases up for Pops to weld, some parts for Troop to inspect, and the head for Troop to finish. I'm also sending Pops a tank and clip-ons for his cafe project. I can get a better shipping rate sending from work... this stuff has taken me all week to transport here in my hard bag on my KLR, and I still have one more trip of stuff to get. I started sanding and polishing my intake last night, I hope to finish tonight, or this stuff won't go out until next week. I have a schedule to keep! Last night I also honed my cylinders, but unfortunately it looks like they will need to rebored to the next size. I'll probably need new pistons, too. The money keeps adding up...

He was born with a gift

RIP to Punk Rock Johnny Cash

Bed Hog

Sheena's a bed hog. Luka doesn't give a flip.

Go time

Enough dillydallying. It's been 6 years since I got my Triumph, but I need to finish it by mid March. I have come up with a week by week game plan to try to get it done before the baby comes. I put a realistic goal for each weekend. Some things depend on other things to get done first, and others can be done whenever. Mixed in with all this is birthing classes every weekend, creating the nursery, and planning the 2nd Unfinished Projects Show for February. This would be so much easier if I didn't have a day job.

November 11: Soda blast cases Never again will I do this myself. What a PITA!



November 18: Polish head ports in evening, send cases to Pops to weld/fix, send head to Troop to finish, clean and layout all motor parts
November 25: Rebuild sludge trap in crank, order necessary motor parts
December 2: Get cases back from Pops, polish, put bushings in cases, reassemble connecting rods to crank
December 9: Assemble lower end
December 16: Hone cylinders, check specs, paint jugs, clean pistons, reassemble pistons
December 23: Assemble gear box
December 30: Inspect and clean up magneto, get head and carbs back from Troop
January 6: Install head
January 13: Finish minor fab work (tail light, license mount, kickstand), disassemble chassis
January 20: Get all necessary SS hardware, grind and polish bolt heads
January 27: Rebuild forks
February 3: Primer and paint misc chassis parts
February 10: Assemble chassis, install motor
February 17: Wire & plumb
February 24: Have exhaust made
March 2: Fire up and ride!
March 9: BABY!

I was really hoping to start reassembling the lower end earlier, but I have some aluminum repairs I should do, well, have Pops do for me.

Fill the 3 thru holes, re-helicoil


Fill and reshape chip by hole


Fill and shape the chain gouges


Fill and shape worn down areas, re-helicoil



Big thanks to Jason at SF Vintage for hooking me with a unit crank to use so I don't need to have machine work done. For comparison, left to right, '53 Thunderbird, '62 Bonneville, late '60's unit cranks. Notice the '53 doesn't have a sludge trap.


And different alternator attachment.


Here's to getting shit done.