Rear tire mounted/tank pre-veiws

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

 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!

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

Oil Tank Kit/welding

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!

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

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

Frame Work

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