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Well I picked up my first bike. As the title says it's a 1960 Ironhead.
I picked it up with a few issues, namely a busted drive chain, rear rotor and sprocket cover. The PO thought revving the engine in between gears would be a fine idea, the chain thought otherwise and promptly snapped. This is the first bike I've ever worked on so I may have some questions ahead. I opened up the primary and started digging around, I found a busted clutch push rod, and noticed that the gear selector rod is bent, might be why the PO was out of gear in the first place. Unfortunately also found that the top bolt hole for the sprocket cover sheared off in the cast aluminum case. So now I need to find someone that can weld cast. Haven't tore into the trans yet, and I'm hoping all thats needed is a new selector shaft. I'm planning on hardtailing it and going for a 1940s WR racer model look. It basically looks like a flat track bobber. I found a cool factory paint scheme from 1928 I'm going with. It's stripped down to the frame now as I'm going through the top end on the engine. I threw some new pics in the flikr account if anyone cares to see. http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/6150426192/
I picked it up with a few issues, namely a busted drive chain, rear rotor and sprocket cover. The PO thought revving the engine in between gears would be a fine idea, the chain thought otherwise and promptly snapped. This is the first bike I've ever worked on so I may have some questions ahead. I opened up the primary and started digging around, I found a busted clutch push rod, and noticed that the gear selector rod is bent, might be why the PO was out of gear in the first place. Unfortunately also found that the top bolt hole for the sprocket cover sheared off in the cast aluminum case. So now I need to find someone that can weld cast. Haven't tore into the trans yet, and I'm hoping all thats needed is a new selector shaft. I'm planning on hardtailing it and going for a 1940s WR racer model look. It basically looks like a flat track bobber. I found a cool factory paint scheme from 1928 I'm going with. It's stripped down to the frame now as I'm going through the top end on the engine. I threw some new pics in the flikr account if anyone cares to see. http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/6150426192/