TUBES.....

Looking for some 4" over tubes for 39mm & 41mm....anybody??

this shit cracks me up! i thought it was a SPOOF band for a movie or something when they first came out but these cats are serious! kinda warmed over boring been done kinda shit but i can't quit listening to it HAHAHA, but i prefer the originals any day of the week!!

No news is good news....

ever heard that saying? i have all my life & it SUCKS!! Haven't heard anything on my motor in 23 day's...so i figured I'd wait till Friday & then call them. Well funny thing Mark from Arizona Custom Motor's & Machine beat me to it. And it wasn't good news. I never really felt like the shovel was on it's last leg cause it ran strong & stout but that's exactly what he said. He said for a 33 year old motor they definitely got their miles out of it HA. Gotta replace 3 outta 4 rocker arms, rocker shaft's, valve guides, cam, roller's on the tappet's, front tappet block...uh let see what else was it? OH, yeah, the fuckin FLYWHEELs! ouch.....so i guess I'm looking for a good set of 80" flywheels..anyone?? E-mail me.

Happy Rocks.....

Theres this Field off the side of the backroad where the shop is, i guess i always knew it was there & had the big rocks cluttering it up but i never paid attention till a woman decided to paint them? Like i had mentioned before, she's a little wacky. She has some crazy ass stories & more tats then most men around here HA HA. Good Ole' biker trash, rode hard & put up wet! Most country folk that live around hate it i think? think it's trashy. And then some people think it's pretty neat. I guess it depends on if you know the chick or not. Me? i'm easy, if it's your land then have it........Here's a few more close up's.

Extenze------

So after thinking about it & instead of just waiting to have everything back together before i decided.....i decided. These bars ARE the shit! but...I'm tall enough that my back & arms say there just a hair too short. So i got with Mac daddy Mac (local hero of all things needing to be machined, at least by me) & got some 1 & 1/2 stainless, 2 & 1/2 long, stepped it on down 1/2" from the bottom to 1 & 1/4 & WALLAH, made some cool little extensions for the J. Roche bars i got off of his shovel build. Of course i'll polish everything up to make it all match but so far I'm diggin it, can't wait to see if they are actually what i was going for come final assembly time....

Part 2.....

Some more pics from saturday, i took the backroads home, the highway was bullshit! here lately it feels like were in Lubbok with all the fuckin wind. I'm ready to head outta town and go camping....


This is a over the door lamp light thing he made, the eagle is bigger then it looks, it's all brass & came from an old post office that was tore down


I love old tools!!! these are a couple of leather working tools the small one i think splits the leather & i never got to ask what the other does but you can see the 2 small wheel blades on the end of it...maybe just makes a cut or bead for the stitching? i don't know....

Parts/office

that customer bike in the back is warmed over vomit, but whatever....the shovel is huge..i'm 6'0 with kinda long arms and i feel small on it! let's not point out the rear end he don't give a fuck, does whatever no matter what..


Love this truck!






Corn

More corn...

More on these crazy rocks off the side of the road later...this lady is an old biker hippy chick from Washington or some shit, has an old Pan trike that's kinda cool but she's fuckin WACKY

Birthday Ride....

I havent been able to just go ride around and fuck off the whole day in a long while. Been couped up at work & then the shop trying to finish the Shovel before June. That's my goal anyway's...So it was my birthday & i did just that, it felt good to take advantage of the badass spring time weather. Didn't get out very far i ended up at my buddy Leonard's house where he has a shop packed full of all kinds of cool shit! When i run into a problem or idea i can't quite figure out that's who i go to, he's been turning wrench's & painting since he popped outta his mama. It's been awhile since i went & just hung out with him so i showed up & of course he's working on something so i just walked around & took pictures while he was busy.
Here's a few to look through..i took a shit load so i'll just post them here & there over the next few day's cause i'm still waiting on some stuff from powdercoaters & gotta hang lights up over the work bench before i can start in on the pretting up on the buffing wheel.

HEY!!!!

somebody please get so drunk you shit your pant's tonight....ITS MY BIRTHDAY!!

well...that didn't keep me occupied for very long..still got to put it on a truing stand and make it straight though, that might be the hard part












oh & if any of you experts are looking at it thinking..that sides wrong..i realized that and fixed it haha

Sick...

just as soon as it gets nice & cozy outside & we get more daylight and 3 fuckin day's before my birthday it hits.... i guess I'll just spend the next few day's trying to heal up for the weekend & wishing i was at the shop with a shit load of energy, still got lot's of cleaning & buffing to do, picked up one of those bench top buffers from Harbour Freight the last trip i took shit to the powder coater. No more drill in the vice for me, that got old with those little wheels. Maybe it'll hold up, you never know when you get tools from there...you have to know what you can & can't buy from them but i love the place!
I'll probably sit here & get this wheel done even though it's not for this build, at least I'll be doing something...

Base coat....

just ended up being the main color...i got it sprayed and liked it too much to cover it up...plus really know one would expect me to do something so..uh, loud..
still got to add a few more touches to it though. Hopefully if everything goes my way I'll finish welding & grinding on the frame & get it painted or powdered by the end of next week.i still keep going back & forth on that one, we'll see.....