post number 98

Well I spent six hours on tracking down this bearing today. What a rollercoaster of talking to people all over the world to get the bearing that I need. I was ready to say "uncle" and just have a small batch of the made up, but I lucked out and found one that is dimensionally the same on the i.d. and o.d. but has 2 more balls than stock. This is great news and my phone time paid off, woo hoo

I spent the rest of the day working on drilling out my rear fender for braces, mounting holes and the chain cut out. I borrowed an original fender from a friend and have to send it back tomorrow, so I made use of copying all of the details that I could.



Check out the round headed screws and square nuts that hold the braces on. What a neat detail. The screws and nuts are painted red. I think that Bill Nugent's sears has the same feature




Here are the notes that I took for the fender lay out. There was a third hole in the back of the fender that was kind of strange. I think it may have been for a olsol light. I am not sure though. anyways it is pretty obvious that I am not good at drawing by looking at this pic lol. Check out the striping details in the lower right hand corner. Lots of good details on this sheet of paper!

I spent the morning straightening frames. While I was gone Delmar flew down with his wife and Gerald and delivered some clutch parts for the sears project. They are soooo beautiful! Thanks Delmar you do great work.


I also got some muffler castings in the mail. The minimum order at the foundry was 10 pieces, so I guess I will have these for the rest of my life lol.



Here are the outer lock nuts. I have to make up a die to crimp the counter bore down and hold the washer in place.




The tape measure is at the top of the threads in this picture.





and to the center of the axle it measures 27.5 inches.

post number 97

2010 sears picture

Here is a pic of my sears so far. What do you guys think? The project is coming along!!! woo hoo, I Just need a frame now. Should be kind of rolling next week if everything goes well. Wish me luck and have a nice night

post number 95

I spent the day working on shop bikes which is bittersweet. It is difficult to not work on my sears with the weight of this luminous deadline hanging over my shoulders, but at the same time it is great to be able to make some money and work on knuckleheads! After hours I spent an hour ordering material for my center stand various bolts and trying to find this damn bearing. It has proved to be very difficult. I have three different companies looking for me, bu I may end up having to make the thing from scratch. I have a game plan/vision of how to do it in my head, but hopefully I will be able to avoid the process and the money it would cost in tooling...


This is a piece of hail that fell out of the sky today. it is an inch in diameter! These made a big noise when they hit our metal building shop!



Here is my first clutch gate. My friend Sonal came out and prepped all of the pieces and cut the rivets to the correct length. I peened these over. I still have to sand them down so that the edge is nice and smooth. It is a nice piece. Thanks sonal!

post number 94

Well today started out good, I got my fenders from Ohio. The tooling was pretty costly, so I had some extra blanks made up. They are made out of a little heavier gauge of metal which is a huge advantage on the rear fender since it is the muffler/toolbox mount!


The rear fender is pretty long and needed to have an extra piece welded onto the end to make it the correct length. pat even cut the tips of the fender so that it would be less work for me. Thanks man. These are soooo nice!

post number 93

I have been waiting for a long time to do this shot! WOOO HOOO! Still a lot of work to do, in a couple months, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel.


Here is the front rocker stud. I will be using a friction dampner similar to jd racers. This seems like a good theory and hopefully will be worth the effort.



HEre are the rocker studs for my front end. I made them today. They are made out of 8620 steel and will be case hardened and finished ground!