Whats up !!
Double D here again to give you the
inside scoop of
James Motorcycle.
Its been really cold the last few days.
Almost went crazy coming to work in the morning.
Hope you all keep nice and warm !!
As soon as I get to work in the morning
the first thing I see is Project J
As you can see the transmission is on board and
ready for work.
The transmission is sitting there ready for work to be done...
But man ...
Getting that pulley off is a pain in the ass !!
Anyways it looks like today's post will also be mainly about
our oh so precious
Project J.
For the time being, Im pretty sure most of the blog posts
will be on Project J.
We started this blog so you guys can see the little things to
James Motorcycle daily life.
Even though we might not have terribly great news..
Hope you guys keep tuning in !!
Getting back to work !
This is the air compressor we currently have...
It does get the job done but It could be way better.
The good news is we ordered a custom compressor !!
Now Work will be much easier
:)
Early in the morning .. we needed to fuel up the heater.
Without that heater here in the shop...
Good Lord it gets cold..
Now the orange thingy you see is a manual oil pump.
Usually we need to twirl and twirl a very long time for the tank to fill up.
However, one of our guys Aaron
got smart and made it automatic!!
Now we are fueled up and ready to get at it!
Now back to Project J's transmission.
this is that annoying pulley that we need to get off.
I tried to get this off almost all day yesterday but we had failed.
I must have hit this thing over 200 times..but nothing.
I know for those of you who have done this before will probably think
we should give it heat and let it slip out
or use WD to get it out.
We tried everything..
Getting really annoyed we decide to take a little break.
While i was hammering that pulley trying to get it out..
Inside the Black Smith things were looking good.
The guys got done fabricating the frame that was cut yesterday.
Back in the work shop.
This beauty we see here is the
05' Road King Custom Bagger.
This sweet ride goes Bling-Bling from
head to toe.
This bike is focused on the chrome parts .
Like pretty Chromed-out to me!!
I hope she finds a nice owner someday
:)
Today our road King is undergoing an exchange of the
Intake / carburetor to create the best conditions and intake of air.
After were are finished she is going to have a
-Bad Ass Look-
Now the new intake that will be put on looks
like a
BEAST !
As i got back to Project J...
I found our Pro getting ready to fire up !
We did not want to waste any more time.
We decided to go ahead and carefully MURDER the pulley.
But we need to be real careful not to
damage the axle.
Lets get this son of a *****
LOL
This turned out to work really well.
We should have tried this from the get go..
..Sigh..
Because we cant damage the axle..
We were really careful.
Don't shake now !!
Finally!!!
We start to see the axle after cutting through the
damn pulley.
After cutting through
almost half of the pulley itself.
We were able to finally get it off !!
Woooo Yea!
It felt real good !
After working on this for so long
just looking at a picture gets me all tingly :)
Now with that out of the way.
Time to get chopping on the frame of what use to be our tractor.
We took way too much time on that pulley..
So its time to rail it in!
Leggo~!!
Tada~~ It looks like an easy job through pictures huh?
It took a long while for this to finish up as well.
I shall keep you posted with work on this more in the future !
Now that is a cut of me getting some good cutting done as well.
I wont lie it was a bit hot at first..
The part that i had to cut was really thick.
While cutting the power went off on me a few times..
You know how koreans are.
Once we start something we
MUST
Finish it up !!
At last,
Work for the ex-tractor frame is done for today.
Sometimes it gets a bit hard to choose the right pictures and figure out
how to give you guys the 411 on our
daily life.
I really hope you guys get some kicks out of our daily posts !
We will keep you guys up to date
and
Keep Warm Yall !!