Trouble With The Tank Threatens Deadline
Added on Thursday, December 4th, 2008 by Carole Nash Editor
Trouble With The Tank Threatens Deadline
Wednesday morning, we arrived at the NEC early in anticipation of a long day working under the spotlights. The plan was simple, we had to button down the basics today to ensure that the build stayed on schedule; Snowy still had a lot of work to do on the wiring loom, the brakes needed sorting and Terry was to begin fabricating the one off exhaust.
Now if you have ever built a custom bike or tinkered with your own stock bike at home, you’ll appreciate that no matter how well you plan things, something will inevitably throw a spanner in the works at some point; this was one of those days.
We had mocked up the frame with the engine and transmission fitted prior to sending the frame back to Norwich for paint, as you will remember, at the same time I set about working on the custom petrol tank – all well and good – However, before breaking everything down, we forgot to fit the Springer front end and check the turning lock, big mistake, had we done this we would have realised that the mounting points are a little too far forward to work with the widened tank – so what does this mean? – well it means that the bars will hit the tank, not good; thank goodness we realised with a few days to spare – we’ll keep you updated on this over the next few days – it’s not going to be a easy fix as the tank mounts will have to be adjusted and the tank re-sprayed, again, Jon Fox our paint guru is not a happy man.
On a more positive note, the primary drive has now been fitted with polished aluminium pulley covers and the belt guard is now in place. We have also made good progress with the braking system, this is a disc set-up with a single Harrison Billet 4 pot calliper on the front and an RST 4 pot rear calliper with the brake rotors painted in Carole Nash colours. The braking system is very high spec; with all that horse power we wanted to be sure that the new owner could pull the bike up quickly in the event of an emergency. As we want to hide the modern components wherever possible, the old skool appearance is maintained by using black - colour coated - stainless steel lines from HEL, these high pressure lines will ensure that there are no brake fade issues. The lines are offered up to cheak the leinghts are correct, whilst we still have time to change things, we’ll leave the fluids until later in the build.
So, it’s not been the best of days overall, all the scratching of heads and frantic telephone calls have meant that Terry is yet to start on the exhaust fabrication, that will have to wait until tomorrow now. Snowy has been getting on well with the wiring though, which is a major plus.
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Work plan for day eight - Thursday
• Continue work on custom loom
• Begin fabricating the exhaust
• Fabricate ignition switch mount
Jon Quantrell
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