Superglide updates- 2012 edition

[RogerMason]

hay ya gotta use what works, if its wood and works who's to complain. You got some good progress going on there.. Thanks for sharing.

[Big D]

I've met my Waterloo... I'm stalled!

It's been a few years since I took a raw, wheelabrated (rough, shot-peened) casting and polished it. While doing the belt change, I'm wet-sanding then polishing the inner primary casting (that's never been off the bike) and it's SLOOOOW going. I've been rubbing on this with 400 wet/dry, then 800, and it's finally coming around.

This was a BAD IDEA.

Can't go back now...

[Odin]

Yup you gotta love it when you try something that doesn't work out then you have to spend 3x the time and/or money to fix it....oh well at least it is fixable....Cheers!

[Big D]

Originally Posted by Odin

Yup you gotta love it when you try something that doesn't work out then you have to spend 3x the time and/or money to fix it....oh well at least it is fixable....Cheers!

Yup. Right on, Odin... at least it's free. Just effort.

I have a LOT more time, than both sense, or money. No harm done.

[RogerMason]

looks like your getting there. Lots of work, but worth it in the end.

[Big D]

Was up "nort", bench racin' with Hooty. Was telling him my belt was going bad, and driven pulley was pitted and crappy. He dove into the corner of his man-cave, rummaged around, and produced this- the exact pulley!

This thing is pristine... very few miles on it.

Thanks, Hooty!




BTW, the drive pulley looks fine...



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[jerseymutt]

Leave it to Hooty. It's nice to have freinds. Now get back to polishing, spring is only 45 days away. No pressure.

Mutt

[Big D]

Done as I'll ever be with the inner primary. Now the collar matches the cuffs, so-to-speak.



Not too easy to bring up a wheelabrated (shot-peened) die casting up to smooth and shiny. The trouble with diecastings (as compared to billet) is porosity and how the metal flows. There were some spots that were pitted too deeply.

I'm pretty happy with this. Had I gone after some of the pitting, I'd have to remove a whole lot more metal. And I took off LOTS of aluminum.

Way more trouble that it was worth, but I got it out of my system.

[Big D]

Getting rid of the mid controls porthole on through the primary. No interest in keeping the ability to put mids back on it. I dont think my knees would bend that far anyway. So I did some farm tractor engineering to the inner primary to eliminate the useless shifter jackshaft.

1/2" bolt, O-ring, locknut... sliced off the jackshaft tube to 2" long, slathered everything in hi-temp Permatex, ordered a new cover, and shitcanned the jackshaft.

[LouEvo XL]

Hooty rocks....bet i can guess what bike it came off...
nice job on the inner primary...every ones inners should shine....