Project Devil's Swing

mock up before powder coating

2010-08-03T20:23:00.000-07:00

3 Up, 2 Out!

2010-07-06T20:28:00.000-07:00

Oil Tank Bracket and Battery Tray Floor

2010-06-30T20:18:00.000-07:00

battery box floor support

Custom made Taillight

2010-06-21T15:18:00.000-07:00

Started the making of my own taillight

Showing some diehard love

2010-06-21T15:01:00.000-07:00

Fuel SIght Gauge

2010-06-12T15:23:00.000-07:00

Welded in the Fuel Sight Gauge to the Gas tank

Pilot Holes

Final Holes

Mocking Holes

Tack Tack

Welded

Primer

Chopped Cam Cover

2010-06-06T15:58:00.000-07:00

chopped up the cam cover today
Start:

Finish

Custom Battery Box

2010-05-30T21:32:00.000-07:00

Made the battery box two day

Battery Hold Downs

New parts and Oil Tank Mounts

2010-05-23T20:33:00.000-07:00

got new parts in this week, flat fender and the Easy Rider sissy bar

Also fabbed up a custom oil tank side mount

kicker gear set-up

2010-04-10T11:29:00.000-07:00

picked up a 1971 OEM kicker gear setup from a buddy of mine who sells sportster parts

Start:
heres the new kicker gear drum

so i cut the ring off the old electric start drum

then heated up the gear and tapped it place

then welded it up

Keep On Rolling

2010-03-05T19:22:00.000-08:00

Ruff Mounted the front end with the old tire, the bike is finally taking its form

Drop Seat Post Brackets Finished product

2010-02-14T18:26:00.000-08:00

did the finishing touches on the seat brackets witch included welding to frame and the seat pan

Primed:

Chopper Shox Drop Bracket Seat Mounts

2010-02-08T15:58:00.000-08:00

made some custom mounts for my chopper shocks seat pan,

Useing a Plasma Cutter I Cut Four 3 1/2 inch long plates out of 1/8 think steel

then using the old mounts as guides drew in the mount holes

Then drilled a Pilot hole

then end up with theses

then did some more cutting and grinding to make room on the frame..

then set everything up and started to tack weld

Becuse one of the brackets shifted re-tacking is going to need to be down as well as some sanding that was missed.

Mounting the Seat

2010-01-16T20:05:00.000-08:00

started welding the seat mounts

Start

Grinding to match the Backbone

Finish:

after the hinge was tacked i went to tack the shock mounts, and of course as it never fucking fails with custom matarils, all the tabs where perfect but ONE

now its off the email mail Chopper Shox and see whats gunna happen.....

Custom Chopped Rear Fender

2010-01-03T11:47:00.000-08:00

Dug out the old stock fender and decided to chop it up to see how it would look, figured i was gunna throw it or give it away, so i took the die grinder to it, still have cosmetic work to do but heres the ruff product.

Start:

Chopping....

Outcome:

Frame Powder Coat Idea

2009-12-20T11:47:00.000-08:00

since im trying to sell my springer due to some miscaluations, i went into photoshop and did some editing ideas and here one that i came up for now....

Gas Tank mounted and Handle Bars Installed

2009-10-25T18:19:00.000-07:00

Mounted the 3 deg neck cups (still have a lot of custom work to make the stem neck nuts and bearing to seat in properly) but this gave the measurements for the floating gas tank mounts.

also mounted the biltwell handle bars with 4in risers with 1in pull back

Rear tire mounted/tank pre-veiws

2009-09-30T19:50:00.000-07:00

got the rear tire mounted to day

also layed out the seat pan, fender and gas tank for a pre-veiw

front tire and rotor installed

2009-09-19T19:12:00.003-07:00

Got the front tire on today and lowered down the rear to see how much rake there would be,
new rear rim should be here next week and will have the rear rubber on asap
check back for updates!

Springer!

2009-09-19T09:11:00.000-07:00

the springer front end arived today,
its a wyatt gatling springer kit, 2 over stock

Oil Tank Kit/welding

2009-09-16T20:06:00.000-07:00

ordered a pipe bomb tank kit from Bung King and brought it over to
Holeshot cycles to get it tig welded
now i needed to weld tabs and brackets and the oil tank will be all set.

new parts!

2009-09-15T19:01:00.000-07:00

some new parts came in today,
Ordered a streched sportster peanut gas tank from AMC,
2.5 gallons

17inchs long

also since i made this ironhead a bobber i spent the extra cash and got some nice good shocks from chopper shox instead of spring for my seat pan.

also tires came in last week

90-90-21 up front Metzeler ME 880 Whitewall
140-90-16 in the rear Metzeler ME 880 Whitewall

also received my pipes by Paughco from steel thunder cc.com

1 3/4 inch O.D. Paughco upsweep gooseneck drag exhaust set

Mock up build

2009-09-15T18:37:00.000-07:00

After reassembling the engine i reinstalled it back in the motor to start doing mock ups and welding.

Frame Work

2009-09-15T18:32:00.000-07:00

so now its time for some frame work, after tons of planing and google search after google search i finally decided what i wanted to do with my frame.

to weld on the v-twin hard tail i needed to strip the frame down and remove the swingarm and shocks

BEFORE:

AFTER:

Thanks to Red Devil Cycles for the welding

Engine Checkout

2009-09-14T19:41:00.000-07:00

pulled out the motor for visual inpection, micing and mesuring will come later before it will be setup for its first run.

after removing the heads jugs and rocker boxs

the valve heads where pretty rusty and sezied

the cylinder walls had minimal scoring and just a little carbon deposits, im thinking pre-detonation?

The pistions also looked good with minimal scoring and small deposists on the head, rings where in great shape with no craking or heavy wearing.

after removing the covers i could get a better veiw of the cams, no chipped teeth and all seemed to turn well by hand, these stock cams wont be running in this motor, will be upgrading to Andwers proformance cams

primary chain had some slack, not sure what the proper tension is but thats what the Harley manual is for.

Inspection

2009-09-13T18:24:00.000-07:00

As i started looking over the bike i started to notice quite a bit of rust, i also noticed that my coil was cracked

after more looking over i noticed that it had beed sitting out side with no filter on the carb with the butterfly valve open, this made me curious and worried at the same time and figured id better remove the carb and have a look at the heads

after removing the carb this is what i found.....

This ment the motor was coming out of the bike for a full strip down and inspection

over look

2009-09-13T18:14:00.000-07:00

heres some random shots on the bike

Buying the bike

2009-09-13T18:06:00.000-07:00

In Feburary of 2008 one month after my 18th birthday i purched my first Harley.
i found a 1977 Harley Davidson Sportster leaned up against a shed in Ocala Fl.