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kootenai Tue Mar 11, 2014 6:02 pm

the chief is getting some attention,,,,,had to figure out how to use this home made Harley pinion gear puller and use it on the indian,,so between a grinder,the lathe,and some fucking around the gear is off and the cases can come apart,,,,,,,ill split em tomorrow so I have an excuse not to nap which is hard not to do with my fucked up winter hours....
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the void that holds 4 sets of caged rollers....
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im getting hyped to finally move forward with this ill see how far I can get before it gets shelved again,,,,,,,,,,depends what life throws at me..............

h.d.ryder Tue Mar 11, 2014 7:05 pm

I like it!

Dennman Tue Mar 11, 2014 9:29 pm

Good to see some progress on the Chief! I know all to well the nap happenin.

Roadhammer Wed Mar 12, 2014 6:16 am

That looks like an awful lot of bushings in there!

sunnydog Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:33 am

Cool man, nice to see this ol rig on the mend sunny

kootenai Wed Mar 12, 2014 4:49 pm

open for business.......
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well just like the sprocket side race this,baby has the fingernail speed bumps where the rollers rode,,seems to me with the amount of meat on the races you could line hone em and go pretty big on the oversize rollers,,,depending how much to cean it up and if the rollers that big are easy to obtain..
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heres the spocket side race..
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they seen some moisture over many many moons....
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kootenai Wed Mar 12, 2014 5:08 pm

put these fuckers on the centers to see what the fuck was up em,,,,,,,I was pretty anxious to see the numbers,,,,,,the curiousity was driving me mental......it ran pretty smooth,when running so,,,,how whacked out could it be........................

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heh,heh, whackier than a shit house rat......heres some measurements......woo boy.......................
this is the pinion shaft..

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sprocket shaft..
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so after this thing is all tweeked up,,she should be a swiss watch,,,,or in all reality one fine tuned old briggs lawn muncher motor,,i just love the simplicity of side valves,they have draw backs but they will run,and run just like the black oil burning lawn mowers buried in the back shed
so ive been cleaning and going over the case surfaces with my favorite fine cut file....
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I use this guitar pick to find any burrs or snaggers to draw out..
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interesting holes in the wheels,,wonder if the salty air in nova scotia where this thing sat by the wood pile led to this.. or just sitting with moisture period! mixed with the oil was more likely..
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kootenai Wed Mar 12, 2014 5:18 pm

heres a shot of the scraper in the bottom of the case...
Nifty eh!!!
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the screen on the underside to keep out the chunks....
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shitty the cams are wasted,,,,,,,,,,,,,,fuckin water...
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hopin to just clean em up and reuse the wheels,,,,hope the tapers are not shot in em..
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just have to see,,,,,im gonna be busy enough for now just cleaning the parts to work on em anyways,,,,so im not worried right now,,,,,,
still got a bunch of priority shit with the house to do this summer so its a case of whenever I can afford some parts and get the time to fuck with it,,,,
ill keep posting as it goes along.................thanks amigo,s ave a gooder!!
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sunnydog Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:01 pm

Great pics Koot, what a nice project....lookin forward to seein these parts closer

kootenai Sun Mar 16, 2014 7:35 pm

ive got these pics on the AMCA forum,,and received some feed back from cotton,and sirhr from there,,,lots of info and knowledge on the redskins to be offered there....
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