Subject: Re: One step forward and three back... (longish)
Author: bluezi-@att.net
Date: Mar 6, 2005, 7:58 PM
Post ID: 1718500372
Charlie,
You might have taken a few steps back with a few of your endeavors, but you have taken leaps ahead with the new windshield...it looks great! Keep the pics coming as the work progresses.....and it most definitely will progress....keep your chin up! Better days, (and better riding weather) are ahead!!
Bill
73 Bronze Eldo
-------------- Original message from Charlie Mullendore <c.d.mul-@att.net>: --------------
| Your free subscription is supported by today's sponsor: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Get a FREE* 5 Megapixel Digital Camera - yours to keep! http://click.topica.com/caadeMob1dfltb7N01Na/5Megapixel Digital Camera Promotion ------------------------------------------------------------------- Decided yesterday to test fit the Euro 850GT windshield I bought from MG Cycle to my homemade s.s. brackets. Not even close! My brackets are a good inch wider than the upper mounts on the windshield. Luckily, I had a pair of the chrome clamp-on type brackets laying around. After an hour of cleaning and shrink tubing the clamp area (to keep from scuffing my purty red powder) they were on and the windshield was in place. Glad I went with this 'shield instead of a National Cycle one, doesn't look another Harley wannabe and won't hide the beefy good looks of my Loop. Measuring the old NC shield I got from Dave O. the homemade brackets will work with it, so I guess all the time spent making them isn't wasted. I'll just use them on another project. If anyone would like to see the windshield and brackets in place (along with the just installed bar-end signals), I'll post some pics later today. Then there's the brake cable problem. Put it on and even with maximum slack adjusted in, the brakes drag. Cable was fully seated in both adjusters and switch, the levers (on the backing plate) are in the same position they came off (the same as my '69's). Seems like the inner cable is too short or outer is too long. Any ideas? Still waiting for the heads to come back from the machine shop. Discovered three weeks ago I had a burnt valve on the right cylinder, so both heads came off and are getting all new valves, seats cut, etc. The EPCO Stainless exhaust didn't fit, so it went back to Ohio for alterations. The headpipes didn't fit the inlets of the mufflers, the crossover pipe didn't fit the mufflers and the flange of the headpipes didn't fit into the heads correctly (with everything in place where it belonged, the flange sat at an angle). I shall overcome these problems though. The end reward will be too great to let minor setbacks like these derail the project. Just kinda' bummed. Charlie http://www.loopframeguzzi.com/ Your free subscription is supported by today's sponsor: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Looking for someone? Need a background check? Investigate anyone, anywhere with Web Detective. Lifetime access only $29.95. Start searching now! http://click.topica.com/caadfAcb1dfltb7N01Nf/WebDetective ------------------------------------------------------------------- |