My intended objective was to build a cool rider to sell so i could upgrade to a mill/lathe combo and invest in some other projects
I acquired the roller and transmission in a trade had the motor sitting on my bench for years the exhaust, tank, seat and some of the primary hanging around my garage and thought them all combined would make a cool rider
I like to modify my gas tanks to fit the type of build and to also be able to utilize as much fuel as possible so i redid the rear mount and moved the petcock back to the rear of the tank i usually mount the petcock horizontally out the rear of the tank but i wanted to preserve the paint so i mounted it on the bottom hitting the right spot in between the rocker box halves was a challenge
I’m most proud of two things actually one is building the primary and getting it all to work and secondly since i didn’t really know any history of the motor getting it to fire and run was interesting tried different ignitions different carburetors setting the timing several times adjusting pushrods several times in the end my favorite combination of electronic ignition S&S carb properly setting the timing and the push rods it fired up nicely
They say its a good looking build simple clean lines
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