TWO STROKE TUESDAY

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CB350 Project

 Chuck and I tore the wheels for the CB350 down today. Let me just say, removing old hard junk tires by hand is a  BITCH, but we did get them off. We then polished all the spokes, and nipples, then we mounted the hubs up in the lathe and started the polishing sequence. The lathe made a hard job much easier. This week I hope to get the centers of the hubs painted, and get the wheels over to Ryan to get laced and trued.

SHOP WORK

Got the wheel that I am modifying bored out this week at Gear Headquarters on Merriam Lane this week. Today I cut out the 1/4 aluminum plate disc to fill in the area where the rear drive hub use to recide. All that is left is pressing in the hub, and find a shop to do all the welding. Hope this work and expense is worth it!

TWO STROKE TUESDAY

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Shop Work

Saturday Chuck and I did the reardown on the cb350 project. For the first time ever, I removed all the wireing by unplugging untapeing, and not cutting a single wire, trying to do things smart. This thing looked clean until we started getting into it, and as usual there was plenty of grease packed dirt everywhere. Will try to get frame and related parts off to powdercoat this week. This Saturday will get wheels torn down, get started cleaning and polishing, hubs, rims, and spokes, and get them over to Ryan for laceing and trueing.I think all the motor needs is a good cleaning, some paint and detail, and the side covers polished.

Started the machine work on my Goldwing rear wheel that is becoming a front wheel.

This is the caliper I will use on the front.

This is the rear wheel that is going on it, with these two calipers. They use to be on the front. May sound crazy, but I do have a plan in my little feeble mind. Thats it until next time, thanks for tuning in.

It has been over a year and a half since I last posted on this blog. During that time I have had major foundation repair done on our house, which took a lot longer than I thought, and also took a lot of prep work on my part, and cost a lot of money. It is finally time to start working back in the shop!  

 Well I am doing some things to the sidecar this winter, to prepare it for a lot of rideing this summer. To start with I am putting a 15 inch rear wheel on the front so I can run fat car tires front and rear. To start with I cut the hub out of the center of my front wheel,

I then chucked the hub up in the lathe and turned it down to a touch larger than 2 inches. Next I will machine the rear wheel I am using to move the rotor closer to the middle of the wheel so it will line up with the caliper. Then I will have to have the center of this wheel open up so the hub I just  turned will slide inside. Then I will make a plate to cover the center of the wheel where the third member use to reside. Then have it all welded up.I will also be adding raked trees to get the trail right so the rig will steer much easier. More pics as I move along on this project.

I will also be starting the teardown on this CB350 for my friend Tim. It will be getting kind of a resto mod treatment.