X-53: Dirt Machine

[sensor]

man i gotta say.......i love seeing all your ideas come together!

 

[KOTA]

You gotta spend a lot of sleepless nights to come up with ALL this stuff!................NICE!

 

[kingplinker]

man, thanks guys, I worked more on rims this evening polishing aluminum rims s not that fun! - I never was much of a sleeper, my brain won't shut up... :mrgreen:

 

[aka_locojoe]

Cool stuff. Perfect place for the mudflap girls. How do they attach?

 

[kingplinker]

there are two threaded bolts, welded to the back of each girl - i guess for pushing through a mudflap - then bolting down. I just cut straps & punched holes in the ends of the straps, put on one end, bent the straps around the frame and on to post, then bolted them down. THANKS < T.

 

[kingplinker]

Got the rims painted yesterday - since they are raised on center, it made it easy to mask off the chrome edges. Even without the hub caps, I like they way they look - so if hub caps don't work, this is what I'll have - Had to take out the hub on back wheel to make the rims fit on there.

I shined the aluminum hubcaps up - took a lot longer than I thought it would - but also got some of the scratches out, etc.

The hubcaps were a beast. Each hubcap has three holes in them, I was going to use these holes to mount by, but they do not line up between the rims, so I had to drill new holes, and added a total of 6 holes to each side for strength. I cut some threaded bolt stick/stuff, and put lock washers & acorn nuts on each side (pierced them). The front one turned out cool, but now I have to go back and re-do my polishing cuz I roughed 'em up trying to get them on!

Front rim seems OK. Doing back rim this morning, and then can put tires tubes on bike and see if they explode or not..

 

[sensor]

great looking wheels! now ive gotta ask.........the cog on the rear wheel goes on the outside(or if its inside the hub cap i want to see some pictures with them mounted and chain on!!!)of the hubcap?

 

[kingplinker]

sensor, sprocket is on outside - I did flip it over & push in the area around the sprocket for chain clearance - it "should" work! -Can send closer pics w/chain later - I also had to put a spacer on the cranks/sprocket side to push it out a hair so the sprockets lined up.

Rims are done, tires mounted, etc. and they are 100% Pure Beef! :mrgreen: I'm pretty happy with them. I had to extend the drop outs so the rims scooted back a little further to keep tire from rubbing - OK so far.

Here are some pics from this morning, coming along finally - picking up steam.

 

[aka_locojoe]

Wow!

 

[37fleetwood]

has kinda a Mad Max flair to it don't it??
if you and Outlaw ever go riding together people are going to think the world is comming to an end!
Scott 8)

 

[kingplinker]

here is how the chain fits - it'll work OK,BUT the tire is so fat it almost rubs the chain! - may have to figure out a little more clearance there - any ideas for fat tire chain clearane more than welcome!

 

[ricksterr1221]

:shock: I don't know if im going to be able to vote. so many beautiful bikes. I doubt im even gonna build mine :lol: BEAUTIFUL BIKE MY FRIEND.

 

[Markm]

look great! Can you shim the front sprocket out a little and hope the chain follows it??

 

[user 135]

Those wheels are wicked. I agree on the MadMax stylin.

 

[Gold Street Customs]

Another beautiful bike to drool over.

 

[Rat Rod]

I had to shim my front sprocket to bump it out enough to clear the frame.

You always build some really cool creative bikes...always lots of details.

 

[kingplinker]

thanks for the comments & tips guys! It's not done yet - I want it to be more hot rod than Mad Max(but mad max is cool) - still have lots' to do - you think I should leave it red primer or paint it? - will try shim to clear chain - peace, T.

 

[karfer67]

i was thinking futuristic hot rod sorta deal. anyways to get more clearance with the chain you could add a spacer to the non-drive side of the hub and put one that is shorter on the drive side. then redish the wheel so that it moves the rear cog out farther and will clear the tire. this is what i did to get the chain to clear when i built "the higgins" because i used a felt rear wheel.

 

[kingplinker]

hey thanks karfer. - when you say "redish" does that mean flip the cog over? I did that - what does redish mean? - thanks < T.

 

[37fleetwood]

Hi, the dish of a wheel is the relationship between the centerline of the rim and the centerline of the hub. on multispeed wheels the rim is dished to the non cog side to make room for the cogs (actually the rim is kept in the center but the spoking will look like it is dished over). the way this is done is to tighten all the spokes on one side of the hub while loosening the spokes on the otherside thereby moving the rim over. I'm not sure this will work in your case because if you move the rim over in relation to the hub you will probably run into the frame on the other side. you might want to try simply moving both sprockets over a little if you can.
Scott 8)