1972 Roadster Rebuild

We finally did some welding today....might not be the prettiest ever seen, but we don't think the stand will fall off and (fingers crossed) that it is located ok. Now a little paint touching up and then I'm starting to think maybe some actual reassembly may commence?
 

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I dont know about on your bike, but on mine I always ground the mounting bolt first on a low leftie. You may want to flip the nut to the top of the side-stand lug, with the head of the bolt on the bottom.
 
You're right, and also so there's clearance for the spring to go by, assuming that the frame end of the spring goes into the little hole on the bottom of the curved front lower cross tube.
 
The Andover one doesn't.
(The un-threaded portion is just long enough)
 
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Well that was certainly fun, but time to move on to...I'm not quite sure at the moment.
 

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What's next seems to be picking up where Nick at Classic Bike Experience left off on the engine. I had him assemble it to the point if bolting the cases together. I'm having Mick Hemmings walk me thru it a few times first though.
 

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1972 Roadster Rebuild


This is how I assembled the Titanic's pig sticker. Bolt head on top, nut on the bottom. The spring kept fouling on the nut, so I cut it in half and shortened the bolt. Nice thing about stainless is you can do those sorts of hack jobs without gettting any rust started.
 
If you mount it like that and ever have to remove the side stand after it is all together, I dont think you will be able to get the bolt out without removing the exhaust pipe.

Plus, if you grind the stand there on a turn, you end up girding the nut and bolt together.
 
I've grounded the pegs before, but the original sidestand lug was removed from the SS clone years ago and it has folding pegs. I just went out to the garage and looked at the Titanic and it doesn't appear the pipe would interfere with bolt removal.
 
With the bolt head to the bottom, the spring just barely rubs across it.

And I'm procrastinating engine reassembly a little longer by polishing the timing cover.
 
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With the bolt head to the bottom, the spring just barely rubs across it.

And I'm procrastinating engine reassembly a little longer by polishing the timing cover.
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Aahh, the labor of love. The spring still rubs the cut-down nut on the Titanic, too.
 
Well, maybe polish was a misnomer. Since I know of no short cuts for real polishing, calling it a buffed up thorough cleaning would be more accurate. I figured my time post surgery would be better spent with actual engine reassembly, so I skipped the long emery paper drill and just went straight to my buffing wheel. So be it. I might send it out for pro polishing if I come across a good place.
 

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pantah_good said:
Well, maybe polish was a misnomer. Since I know of no short cuts for real polishing, calling it a buffed up thorough cleaning would be more accurate. I figured my time post surgery would be better spent with actual engine reassembly, so I skipped the long emery paper drill and just went straight to my buffing wheel. So be it. I might send it out for pro polishing if I come across a good place.
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An angle buffer and some Mother's Mag and Aluminum polish will shine that right up.
 
Mother's is great stuff. A tube of Simichrome costs about the same as a small tub of Mother's. Very similar products.
 
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