Another job I've made for myself is to make a one off Hydraulic clutch for the bike. I want to lose the original hand controls which are heavy, chromed and generally awful. What I need is a matched pair of modern-ish brake and clutch levers/master cylinders, while Hydraulic clutch conversions are available for Evo Sportsters (at a price), there is only one place I've found that makes one for Ironheads. At $300 just for the slave master cylinder, I thought we could do better.
I swapped a roll of old roofing felt for a secondhand Brembo clutch slave cylinder from a Ducati 916, my orignal idea was to combine the clutch adjustment inspection cover with this slave cylinder.. something like this..
Combine these two somehow..
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That idea didnt last long, so now I'm making a new slave cylinder from alloy, uisng the piston and seal from the Brembo. I dropped off the alloy at a local engineering firm who will cut the imperial thread so it can screw into the primary cover (as we cant do that), then we can do the rest. May not work, but got to try.
