█ Flex★Liner⑦ █ TWINFLEX SPACELINER BUILD THREAD - Aug8 - SOLD

kingfish254 · Jun 30, 2012

Re: █ Flex★Liner⑦ █ TwinFlexSpaceLiner 6/30 Yard Sale Find

SCHWINNRAY69 said:
Nice grabs, hope you don't tear apart the men's bike!

It has a really good look to it. It will be a while before I tinker with Cat Piss. First I need to disenfect it!!!

kingfish254 · Jun 30, 2012

Re: █ Flex★Liner⑦ █ TwinFlexSpaceLiner 6/30 Springer Fork Spacer

Picked up a lot of nuts and bolts and stuff at HD last night.

I am still experimenting with proper axle spacers for this unusual springer fork. The ground down washer were a bit rough and I think they were rotating and binding some.

Picked up some 3/8 nylon nuts to try. It is a better thinkness as far as keeping the springer fork off of the big fork. There is plenty of space and I shouldn't have to worry about the wheel moving forward and back because of the interior rocker arms. We'll see.

JJBones · Jun 30, 2012

Re: █ Flex★Liner⑦ █ TwinFlexSpaceLiner 6/30 Springer Fork Spacer

This bike looks FAR OUT!

kingfish254 · Jun 30, 2012

Re: █ Flex★Liner⑦ █ TwinFlexSpaceLiner 6/30 Springer Fork Spacer

JJBones said:
This bike looks FAR OUT!

Thanks bones! It's coming together slowly but surely.

kingfish254 · Jun 30, 2012

Re: █ Flex★Liner⑦ █ TwinFlexSpaceLiner 6/30 Springer Fork Spacer

Made some real progress mounting the 54 Chevy Eagle as my light brace.

Got the new longer carriage bolt hole cut.

Bolted it down with a jack nut on top. Cinched it in real tight (more on that later).

Cut out the springer rubber baby bugggy bumper to fit over the nut.

Springer assembly

Decided to preload the old springer a bit so I used a couple of jack nuts and a washer. I also added a jack nut higher up to backstop the decorative seat spring.

kingfish254 · Jun 30, 2012

Re: █ Flex★Liner⑦ █ TwinFlexSpaceLiner 6/30 Broken Eagle!!!!!!

Well, when I cinched up the carriage bolt, it put a lot of stress on the cron of the eagle and kinda made it bend down a little in the front. I gently tried to lift it up a bit and SNAP !!!!! :shock:

Broken eagle!!!

:x

After a lot of cussing and such, I thought through my options and the eagle isn't dead yet.

Remember the coppertone Exerciser angle iron? Well I am going to put it to good use. I am going to have it be the actual brace on teh fork and then attach the eagle to it. It will be a stronger setup and I really don't lose any length.

Now that I have had a chance to cool down. Time to go back out in the heat and tackle this monkey!!!!!

kingfish254 · Jun 30, 2012

Re: █ Flex★Liner⑦ █ TwinFlexSpaceLiner 6/30 Broken Eagle!!!!!!

Oh yeah, and here is the chrome caulk gun I was thinking of using for the light brace.

char · Jun 30, 2012

Re: █ Flex★Liner⑦ █ TwinFlexSpaceLiner 6/30 Broken Eagle!!!!!!

Sucks that the eagle broke. You'll get it sorted though, it's looks great so far man! Keep up the great work.

Love that light brace idea!

Bigdaddy772 · Jun 30, 2012

Re: █ Flex★Liner⑦ █ TwinFlexSpaceLiner 6/30 Broken Eagle!!!!!!

It is a major bummer that the eagle broke. I'm hope you can get it worked out.... Now hurry up I want to see this bike finished already!!!!
BTW "Cheers to all of my Build Brothas who share a kid-like heart but a man's thirst!!!!" I just may need to steal that!!! 8) 8)

kingfish254 · Jun 30, 2012

Re: █ Flex★Liner⑦ █ TwinFlexSpaceLiner 6/30 Broken Eagle!!!!!!

char said:
Sucks that the eagle broke. You'll get it sorted though, it's looks great so far man! Keep up the great work. Love that light brace idea!

Peatbog said:
Bummer about that eagle. It was looking good on there. It will look good when you get it back on there.

Bigdaddy772 said:
It is a major bummer that the eagle broke. I'm hope you can get it worked out....

The 54 Chevy Eagle underwent surgery on his tailfeathers and is resting in ICU tonight.

Thanks for all of the compliments and get well wishes. This is the way it should have been done in first place. So what if the eagle had to lose some tail.

kingfish254 · Jun 30, 2012

Re: █ Flex★Liner⑦ █ TwinFlexSpaceLiner 6/30 Broken Eagle!!!!!!

Bigdaddy772 said:
.... Now hurry up I want to see this bike finished already!!!!
BTW "Cheers to all of my Build Brothas who share a kid-like heart but a man's thirst!!!!" I just may need to steal that!!! 8) 8)

I'm given ya all that I got Cap'n!!!!!

CHEERS!!!!

I think that tonight it is Port Brewing Older Viscosity Time - "Not your Dad's 30 Weight" - 12%

kingfish254 · Jun 30, 2012

Re: █ Flex★Liner⑦ █ TwinFlexSpaceLiner 6/30 Eagle Tail Surgery

Here in Savannah it was 96 with a heat index of 111 today, but I felt bad for my little eagle's tail.

Took one of the coppertone testbed struts and cut a chunk out. Drilled and filed mounting holes and test fit it to the eagle.

Then mixed up some JB Weld and set the 54 Chevy Eagle in ICU for the night.

kingfish254 · Jun 30, 2012

Re: █ Flex★Liner⑦ █ TwinFlexSpaceLiner 6/30 Eagle Tail Surgery

In lieu of flowers or balloons, just send BEER!!!! :mrgreen:

kingfish254 · Jun 30, 2012

Re: █ Flex★Liner⑦ █ TwinFlexSpaceLiner 6/30 Eagle Tail Surgery

I am not to worried about the JBWeld strength because the eagle will be braced by the wings.
Speaking of the wings, I plan to steal one of Yoothgeye's tricks for those.

kingfish254 · Jun 30, 2012