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Vintage Indian Chief carnage and fix ...
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N4teTheGreat
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Very impressive, at my skill level any issues that would require removing / disassembling a motor are probably grounds for parting out the bike...
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more progress from Mr @kalle … the carnage:
broken cast iron cooling fins … Mr Kalle figures the cylinder was dropped in a garage/shop at some point in the past.
the donation fins … you can see the bandsaw blade in the pic …
all sliced up …
a tack weld on the cast iron to hold the donor fin in place. the tack weld lasts just long enough to allow the replacement fin to be braised.
our moto subculture, keeping our bikes rolling—Mr Kalle and Mr Shawn Campbell, who helped Mr Kalle out with the required bandsaw.
broken cast iron cooling fins … Mr Kalle figures the cylinder was dropped in a garage/shop at some point in the past.
the donation fins … you can see the bandsaw blade in the pic …
all sliced up …
a tack weld on the cast iron to hold the donor fin in place. the tack weld lasts just long enough to allow the replacement fin to be braised.
our moto subculture, keeping our bikes rolling—Mr Kalle and Mr Shawn Campbell, who helped Mr Kalle out with the required bandsaw.
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Kalle,it would be interesting to see if we could get the settings dialed on our laser to do some of that fine work.
Pushrod
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Old farts being happy in a work shop.
I aspire. Nothing better than a needed skill being available, a coffee pot on a greasy bench and a bro you've known longer than your spouse. I bet even the music tuner is analog and up there on the shelf.
Working on cast iron, Doesn't get any better.
I aspire. Nothing better than a needed skill being available, a coffee pot on a greasy bench and a bro you've known longer than your spouse. I bet even the music tuner is analog and up there on the shelf.
Working on cast iron, Doesn't get any better.
SFMCjohn
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Mr @kalle time-lapse rebuilt 80” flathead engine installed into ‘70s era vintage Indian chopper.
edit: well, “view this content on Instagram” is no fun if you’re not much of a link follower, so here’s a pic of the bike in the shop:
and a no-extra-charge pic of a couple of Mr Kalle’s grey-beard, biker-lifestyle buddies, just for the giggles:
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Nice video, love the soundtrack.
Mr @kalle time-lapse rebuilt 80” flathead engine installed into ‘70s era vintage Indian chopper.
edit: well, “view this content on Instagram” is no fun if you’re not much of a link follower, so here’s a pic of the bike in the shop:
and a no-extra-charge pic of a couple of Mr Kalle’s grey-beard, biker-lifestyle buddies, just for the giggles:
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I am very envious of that workshop space..
SFMCjohn
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more from Mr @kalle … he’s preparing this bike to ship to Europe soon, so he can tour the alps and hit some European vintage-Indian rallies:
Pushrod
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Sometimes, while watching makeover shows, I giggle at what television concepts of 'man cave' results in.
Not one time have I seen an overhead air hose reel or scroll compressor. Nor a media blaster let alone a bike lift. Plenty of beer taps and colored lights for some reason, but never a dedicated 220 volt circuit that would carry a welder.
Am not giggling at the shops in this thread.
Not one time have I seen an overhead air hose reel or scroll compressor. Nor a media blaster let alone a bike lift. Plenty of beer taps and colored lights for some reason, but never a dedicated 220 volt circuit that would carry a welder.
Am not giggling at the shops in this thread.
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I'm guessing the oil tank with a quick release lid in front of the persuader?
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yes, exactly, the oil tank because the coffin chopper tank isn’t sectioned to store the oil the way the stock rhs tank is … you can just make out the two filler caps in this pic, the front one is for oil:
this is Mr Kalle’s 1939 Chief, that the Instagram vid above of the Geo Metro alternator/battery thrashing, collecting the “best in show” trophy yesterday at the Washington HS Auto and Motorcycle Show …
also: “persuader” …
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moar Chief chopper thrashing … putting a rebuilt stock M344 Linkert carb on the old gal:
replacing the Harley-Davidson M51 carb (offa Panhead) that had been gracing the 1935 74” Indian flathead.
this Instagram features our friend Franco, who had driven up to make the Easter Sunrise scene from Longbeach in his truck with his vintage Honda and late model Triumph in the bed.
replacing the Harley-Davidson M51 carb (offa Panhead) that had been gracing the 1935 74” Indian flathead.
this Instagram features our friend Franco, who had driven up to make the Easter Sunrise scene from Longbeach in his truck with his vintage Honda and late model Triumph in the bed.
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Mike95060
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Well this thread gets a "hell yeah brother!"
Nice work.
Nice work.
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^^
I have fantasies about owning a ‘28 Indian 101 Scout or a pre-war Chief, someday, but me owning one of those bikes would reveal all my inadequacies as a motorcycle guy pdq.
roughly speaking a pre-war Chief is like $20k these days, and the Scout would be like $30k.
I have fantasies about owning a ‘28 Indian 101 Scout or a pre-war Chief, someday, but me owning one of those bikes would reveal all my inadequacies as a motorcycle guy pdq.
roughly speaking a pre-war Chief is like $20k these days, and the Scout would be like $30k.
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Mike95060
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Me too. As well as a machinist/welder/fabricator^^
I have fantasies about owning a ‘28 Indian 101 Scout or a pre-war Chief, someday, but me owning one of those bikes would reveal all my inadequacies as a motorcycle guy pdq.
I followed your bud on IG