I decided to start over on the bike. I'm gonna do a whole new frame in flat black. The tank will be a flat Chevy orange, the engine will be black wit the same flat Chevy orange for the head. Then I'll have "Redheaded Stepchild" on the tank in black letters. So far I have the
head and cylinder done. Whaddaya think?

Sounds great...soon you gonna have a show like American Chopper? (Love that show!)

Ha! The American moped show, where I have a shop and I'm too polite to my employees and we ride around and beep our horns and smile.

You could do fake arguments like the Teutels!

"Excuse me...excuse me....um...say, I was just wondering, not that I'm upset because I'm not...but could I ask who ordered these pedals for the Geritol moped?"

Mikey musta done it..

Oh that Mikey, what a black sheep, what a character.

Yes, a regular wisenheimer that boy.

So.... you just painted them... with real paint?

You might think so but...thing is, these motors are cast aluminum see, and they are mass produced so the castings are pretty rough, like along all the ridges of all the fins there was extra material all jagged and crappy, and inbetween the fins on the cylinder there were places where the casting mold allowed the molten aluminum to gather so there were places between the fins that I had to grind out with an air tool by hand, then I went over all the crappy seems with a file, sat there for hours filing them smooth and pretty. and then after all that I had to coat everything with aircraft quality paint remover because the factory paints all the motors with this crappy silver paint. Then after I got all the paint out of all the little nooks and crannys I wiped it all down with denatured alcohole to get the surfaces absolutely clean and free of any dirt or oils from my fingers. Then I finaly got to spray them with high temp engine paint. Cool huh?

Yes, but... I already... yeah, I knew that, and stuff. I threw three of them together just yesterday. :O

Oh yeah? So you doin the two stroke singles now days or the two cylinder four stroke horizontaly aposed air cooled version these days?

ummm... did you say stroke? hah

Stroke? What? No..I said smoke woman! Go get me some coffee and a smoke.

*sigh*.....

ok...finally got the extraction tool I ordered.
Here is the engine case all disassembled and
ready to be cleaned up and prepped for paint!

not split
split
Impatiently imagining how it's gonna look.
Yeah baby.

That last one kinda looks like a Martian Fireman right now.. cool

I want some of whatever Dave is smoking. This is gonna sound stupid, but is the extraction tool what you use to split it?

No, it's used for pulling the gears off of the ends of the crankshaft and final drive (so that you can split it). Looks kinda like a gas pipe fitting really, but it works like magic.

I think I know what a gas pipe fitting looks like, but take a picture of it?

the puller tool is on the left and one of the gears is on the right.
the tool threads into the gear and then you screw the bolt in and it presses down on the shaft that the gear is on while pulling the gear up and off the shaft.

you took a picture of it! thanks!.... wait... did you say "press down on the shaft"?
hah... sorry, I couldn't help it... just the "wanna see my thing" title and then there was the stroke, and ... nevermind... :D

Here is a picture of the burger I just made.
Beef, mayo, mustard, ketchup, onion, tomato, fried egg, cheese. MMmmmmmm

EDIT: And here is what it looks like a few minutes later :)

BRRrrrrp

A most impressive burger, indeed! ..with a 60 or 61? chevy in the bg?

no idea how anybody could eat that beast of a burger 0_0

59 El Camino

I know what the 58 looked like ..and the 63..but those between I'm a little muddled on.

58's are the coolest

I once had a 1958 Buick Super that I got in 1968 for $400...I saw one for sale here recently for $30,000! That was the one with the 1800 pounds of chrome on it all over the place.. what a boat.

I would trade my Porsche in a second for one of those.

I dunno Dan..it only got 4 miles to the gallon! It was HUGE, though..I'm 6'3 and I could lay across the front seat all the way. That was a big car!..

Yes I know the car. Me and John Kubo used to ditch class and go to this field that had a few abandon cars in it. We often sat in a 58 and snoked weed. I always admired all the heavy chrome. My fave to sit in was an Chrysler NewYorker, early 60's I believe. It had the rear view mounted to the dash ad the big bubble speedo instrument cluster that wrapped around he top half of the steering column.

Gotta love 50s and 60s cars.

You know it, sister

This is pretty much the car..except mine was a silver and white combo...http://w2k01.genotec.ch/buickclub/BT2000/bilder%5Cbt2000-2-23.JPG

Ya'll can keep your things to yourself. :)

Clox doesn't like lead sleds?