Parts for Erik's bike

[Ayers Garage]

When my wife saw the side cover with the "TT" logo on it, she asked if it was a Titty Twister bike. The name stuck in my mind.























I still have one more small little cover to do. I'll do it first thing Monday morning and I should be able to get it all back in the mail to you Monday by noon.

[bronco78]

Outstanding.

Out on date night with the wife but will settle up via PayPal when I get home

[Mudclod]

Those are beautiful, they actually look liquid, like they're wet.

[bronco78]

Umm, darn, I just noticed, you removed the kick starter plug from the side case.... had not consider you doing that... I'll have to order a new one ... ****, that's another 10-14 working days now for the next OEM order to come in.

I should have considered that, or at least asked if it needed to come out.

[Ayers Garage]

It is rubber. I had to remove it. I was pretty careful with it though. I'd figure it's easily reusable. ImageUploadedByTapatalk1341718448.814921.jpg

[bronco78]

Originally Posted by Ayers Garage

It is rubber. I had to remove it. I was pretty careful with it though. I'd figure it's easily reusable. Attachment 22853

No worrys, My fault.. I should have known that.. Just put it in the box please,, I will not likely use it, as i just don't do things that way...... I was thinking you would just mask it off... as i doubt the cure oven would have harmed it.... unless your cooking higher then 400deg.

Still I should have asked not assumed.. Heck, I may just machine an aluminum plug for it.. ..in fact,,, thats a perfect place for a nice polished aluminum bit.... and no waiting then Win / Win

[bronco78]

I need the size of the hole in the cover and depth of the lip it sits on so I can order materials to make the clutch cover plug, and get a rough part made up.


I'll do finial fitment when I get the cover back .. So measuring tape to inside mic will work..

Anyone with a cover off and can measure this..

Thank you in advance.

Erik

[Ayers Garage]

I'm at the fire station today but I can have the measurements for you by about 8 tomorrow morning if no one else can help.

[bronco78]

Originally Posted by Ayers Garage

I'm at the fire station today but I can have the measurements for you by about 8 tomorrow morning if no one else can help.

Sounds Great, thank you for the continuing GREAT customer service.

Anything I order will not hit the handlers till later Monday morning anyway...

Few feet of materiel and some new 80 Deg Diamond Inserts and we will have a new plug ready to go by the time the new gaskets and stainless Steel fasteners get here.

[Ayers Garage]

Erik,

You will likely want to order one of those little seals that goes inside of that cover also. It's quite small, about the size of a nickle and held in place by a retainer with one screw. I had to remove it too, and it looked kind of haggard before I messed with it.

I had my wife text me this picture. The seal goes into the little hole right in the center of the picture.


You had mentioned sending the two plugs on the stator cover. I do not have part number 22. Did you send it ? If so, I need to start digging through the ziplock bags again to find it.

[Ayers Garage]

I think that seal is part number 10 in this diagram...

[bronco78]

Already did, thanks... I knew it was toast, so did not worry about it being heated in the oven, and as it was not an outside surface, removal for powder coating was not an issue..

Again, my failure to communicate .. sorry for the extra work.

[bronco78]

Originally Posted by bronco78

Already did, thanks... I knew it was toast, so did not worry about it being heated in the oven, and as it was not an outside surface, removal for powder coating was not an issue..

Again, my failure to communicate .. sorry for the extra work.

I chose not to send the timing plug, it was a bit damaged and I did not have a spare as I did with the crank plug I sent you... No worrys, I made one this morning, so now there is a shiny new polished aluminum one waiting on the covers to come home.

Thanks for your attention to detail.

[Ayers Garage]

Don't sweat the work Erik. I wanted this stuff perfect. Not close to perfect, but perfect. That's why I removed the studs temporarily also. When the heat hits the parts, oil and slime has a way of oozing out of places you'd never imagine otherwise. I've seen studs ooze out around the threads and ruin a coating job before. By removing everything, I could make sure that I had it totally clean and all of the blasting media removed. We don't want that stuff anywhere near engine internal pieces.

[bronco78]

Originally Posted by Ayers Garage

By removing everything, I could make sure that I had it totally clean and all of the blasting media removed. We don't want that stuff anywhere near engine internal pieces.

Very true and always the biggest concern when any engine part has been media blasted... One of the reason I use Soda when ever possible.

I have seen $30K engines destroyed by glass beads that came out of places in a head it should not have been possible to retain them.

The fiber optic scope will get a work out when those covers are returned... as the right one has oil passages that need to be triple checked, flushed, checked again.

[bronco78]

So, parts picked up from the post office today.... and they look GREAT in person, as they did in the pictures

Installed the left cover with all new SS socket head cap crews and SS washers as i had a spare gasket on hand for that side.

And of course, realized I made a mistake.... that brand new crank access plug I had powder coated....... got powder coated INSIDE the hex socket recess as well, so of course a drive bit will no longer fit.


So I think I'll take a pen knife and scrape away the PC from inside the hex, then perhaps color it back in with a sharpie...

Lesson learned, more forethought needs to go into planning each part to be coated.

[bronco78]

[Ayers Garage]

Use an SAE sized allen wrench. One will fit it fairly well and allow you to tighten it, no more torque than it requires. I used one of mine, I think 5/16 or 3/8 to screw it in that far.

[bronco78]

Originally Posted by Ayers Garage

Use an SAE sized allen wrench. One will fit it fairly well and allow you to tighten it, no more torque than it requires. I used one of mine, I think 5/16 or 3/8 to screw it in that far.

Thanks Kevin..

Yup got that,, thats how I took it out

But it'll bug me, I'll have to remember to grab an SAE tool where none should be needed, and no matter what, the PC is going to be damaged.

This timing plugs are often damaged, even when installed with care.. This is the 3 or 4th on this motor. And i keep one on hand for the very reason that about 1/2 the DRZ's I work on, end up needing one.

[bronco78]

To go with the great powder coat work done... I decided to add a bit of bling, to replace the rubber coated steel plug Kevin had to remove for the powder coating.
Cutting materiel


Turning to size


Polishing the exposed face


Back in the lathe to part the almost finished plug from the rest of the materiel.


And pressed in to place in the beautifully high gloss Black powder coated cover..