wows of doing your own work

[wrecker]

as many of you know i have been a wrench most of my life and conceder myself pretty good at it . well i decided i wanted to upgrade my slid this year from a 88 to a big bore but as most was a little tight on coin "like most of us are" anyway i start thinking out what i want to do as well as regular repairs from last years riding season this is the list i came up with
get rid of the spokes rims before they kill me "go back to mags
new Avon tires
new break pads and get rid of the break desk that are warped
change the y pipe on the exhaust "the old one was cracked and re welded several times by me
bore the jugs and put flat top pistons in
polish the heads for better flow" decided big boy z can do the machine work.. good plan correct??? well here is what6 ended up happening
got replacement disk from coolmaker jugs from speedman kagen came up with some take off heads and mongo had the exhaust pipe for me , so with this i figured i had most of my parts so i started working on the bike got it all together ended up with some cold piston slap , don't like it but figured maybe some tuning would help get rid of the noise will i have a computer but don't have a exhaust sniffer and figured i am not the brightest when it comes to computer's so i will send it out to be tuned got it over to harley and they dino it they got rid of some of the piston slap and all of the ignition predation's but the bike still wont ideal for shit and comes off the line in first feels like the motor is to tight it pulls well through the gears and comes to life great above 2 grand but barley runs at ideal well i guess back to the drawing board to figure this one out does this sound fimuler to anyone that has done there own work ?? it's not always easy

[Bigshovel]

That sux Rex. Piston slap from the gurus up north??? No amount of tuning will cure that. I'm pretty sure I can cut you a deal on a used 95" top end that won't bang around. Got you something I'll be puttin' in the mail this week too, just need to get by the post.

[Hellswraith]

Move to Texas - I pay well for a good wrench !!


:smile:

[Fubar]

Did you get this figured out Wrecker??

[heretic]

don't like the piston slap thing. What kind of pistons, and what did the machinist clearance the jugs to. Most forged pistons require .003 clearance, while hypereuetics run a lot tighter at .001. Some of the older short skirted forged pistons did rattle until they warmed up. I can't remember what HD cast pistons required for clearance, but it has been years since I bored a set of jugs

Just a funny side note....The last set of jugs I bored were for one of my old shovelheads. I went into the shop that I worked at on a Saturday (boss had given me the OK the day before) There were a few other people there finishing up projects too. I was still 1/2 drunk from the night before, and just could not figure out the boring head for the mill. I ended up chucking the jugs up in a lathe, and using a boring bar to remove .040 (and the extra .003 for the weisco forged pistons). My dad still rides that old shovel.

[softail]

Originally Posted by heretic

I ended up chucking the jugs up in a lathe, and using a boring bar to remove .040 (and the extra .003 for the weisco forged pistons). My dad still rides that old shovel.

:shock:

Wow, thats using what ya know to do what ya need.

I checked the air presure in my tires once. It was kinda a bitch, but by golly I figured it out. :grin:

On a serious note, when you did the lathe thing did you have those jugs clamped those plate things?

[wrecker]

softail i love when you use all that teck talk

[heretic]

Originally Posted by softail

:shock:

Wow, thats using what ya know to do what ya need.

I checked the air presure in my tires once. It was kinda a bitch, but by golly I figured it out. :grin:

On a serious note, when you did the lathe thing did you have those jugs clamped those plate things?

I just grabbed the sleeve that extends down into the cases in a standard screw chuck, indicated and trued the jug, and started cutting. I put the feed on the slowest setting, and set back to drink coffee while the lathe did the work

[Fubar]

Originally Posted by wrecker

softail i love when you use all that teck talk

So what ever happened Rex?? I'm waiting patiently for a reply??

[FATboy05]

Originally Posted by Hellswraith

Move to Texas - I pay well for a good wrench !!


:smile:

Shit Dave, you pay very well for shitty mechanic's too it seems to me :lol: