The Chopper Compendium

These are very nice and look solid and tough.

Came back to look at this link yesterday.

Saw this and decided I'm not moving here.

http://www.pipeburn.com/home/2016/04/23 ... pe-95.html

Turns out my gauge was bad....picked up a new one, ran a test & center cyl. read 90....l & r cyls. read 60. Shot a little oil in the cylinders & all 3 read over 120. Would this be normal for a motor that has never been run with the lack of oil being pumped throughout the motor? I Think ...

Thank you, Dan.

DRAGlinK.JPG Remove the oil screen cap and "O" ring, and install the oil pressure gauge and fittings. Use a 11/16 drag link socket, (abt $25 Ca) before tax, or make your own. I made my own in about 10 minutes. DRAGLink1.JPG draglink2.JPG I am leaving the sending unit in to use later.

Place a "Locking Bar" between the two pulleys at this angle to lock the drive.

You can torque the drive nut this way; place it the other way to torque the transmission pulley nut.

The bar can be a piece of strap 8" long and 1-2 inches wide.

FullSizeRender.jpg You can now bolt the hub to the collar and torque the hub nut to the motor shaft. I did that, but used no Loctite as I am pulling it right off after a test start. I did not use the clutch plates or pressure plate. I can start the motor without those. Torque the Transmission nut, ...

Capture.JPG Slide the motor pulley onto the sprocket shaft collar, but do not bolt the two together. This way the motor pulley can rotate without turning over the motor. Place the drive belt on the edge of motor pulley and the transmission pulley . Slowly rotate both the motor pulley and the transm...

Sorry to "HiJack here Mark, but that is the best laugh I've had in a while.

Yeah, amazing I got this far.

MORE PICTURES COMING.

Aligning the sprocket shaft splines and the collar splines is difficult because of the close tolerances.

I placed the collar on the sprocket shaft by itself without the motor pulley or the pulley nut.

The spacer is put on first.

Good to see you posting.
I remember the yellow soft-tail you built when Gary W. (could have been Ken Venus?) had one of his old sites.

I ignored the info about WASHERS and SHIMS and SILICON.

They talk about being able to align the sprocket shaft splines and the collar splines while the belt is under tension.

I did it differently, and was much easier than this.