Soul Seekers Show

Lindsey Westfall put on the second annual Soul Seekers Show in Toronto last week and it looks like it was hella fun. I had a few of my prints up in the exhibit which looked great! Jason Parker's bikes were also in attendance as part of the show which are amazing as always. Thanks for including me in the event, Lyndsey, I'm gonna try hard to make it out there for Soul Seekers III. You can buy prints from the artists on the SoulSeekersShow site and there's an in-depth article on Jason Parker's Bikes here.

 

Here's some pics I stole for the SoulSeekersShow site of the event.

 

Head werk

Picture of my Panheads in progress at Jason Parker's shop in TO. He's only got 2 shovels, a pan and 3 other sets of heads to do at the same time. Hahah. Can't wait...but will.

Jason hard at work. photos by Hon at ThrottleFMC

Pan Parts Update

Looks like I'm going to be building every part of this beast from the ground up. Assembling the motor and the tranny, lacing the wheels and rebuilding the star hubs, assembling a Linkert m74B carb, and then all the other stuff that I've done before like rebuilding a clutch, brakes, wiring, yaddy yaddy yadah. It's actually pretty awesome, because by the time it's all together I'm hoping to have my first stage brown belt in Mule Wizardry.

Here's where we're at:
The Tranny is inventoried and cataloged. Just a few pieces to find at the swap meet and it can all go together again.



The motor is waiting on a different sized thrush washer so I can set the flywheel endplay and finally button up the fly wheel assembly safely inside the cases and start working on the cam gear assembly.
The heads are still in Toronto with Jason Parker getting turned into something awesome. Oversized valves, new valve springs, guides and a few repairs should make these things pound as hard as any shovel out there. Matched with a set of 9:1 compression Wiseco pistons we should make some smoke.


 

The wheels still need to be laced and I've decided not to use the late panhead, early shovelhead mid-star hub and drum brake and run the other older starhub I have instead. Need to find an older style brake now, but I want to keep this thing as Pantastic as possible.



The linkert carb is really just a chrome body with the venturi half sticking out, so I'm hoping to find a donor with all the right parts I can strip off at the swap.

Panhead Project update

Thought I'd put a status update together for anyone following my Panhead Dreams.

I got the Cases back from Bernie yesterday who did a few adjustments here and there to make things tickity boo.

 

Welded up the timing plug hole, fixed up a weld on a broken engine mount and then machined the cases to match perfectly because the left case is a 1951and the right is a 1964. This brings us to the next challenge.

 

The next challenge is that right now THIS is my panhead engine. Ohhh my.

 

Now. The fact that one half of the bottom end is from 1951 and the other half is from 1964 actually causes a wealth of issues. They have a completely different shaft and bearing system. Fortunately, after a few hours of sloothing I've determined that whoever started putting this project together build the flywheel assembly specifically for this motor and everything from the right flywheel over is set up for the '64 case and everything from the left flywheel over is built for the '51. Phew.

I was laying out parts on the pizza box cataloging them by looking through two Panhead service manuals and a parts catalogue.

Tonight I'll go back to what I'm good at and start washing the dishes again. Yes Polishing turds! Once all the bearings are greased and everything is clean clean clean I'll be ready to try putting the halves back together. Unfortunately, the manuals say for a '51 engine you need to start by putting the right case on and for a '64 you need to start with the left case. Shit. Chicken Egg.

As for the top end, the heads are currently with Jason Parker in Toronto getting turned into something awesome!! I've got new Jugs and just need one or two little bits to have everything. It's time to put my money where my mouth is and dive in.