XS taking a stand

[livelifenowff]

stinky

make sure you give us an update on what those brake rotors smell like when you break em in and burn off all that paint. haha. im sure you'll scrape those off before mount but it was a really funny thought to me. Thats gonna look great. its quite similar to what i plan to do. but im with MRO i'm goin with the shiny fin edges.

[Ken Talbot]

Not to worry, livelife. When the polyester masking tape came off, all of the powdercoat came off of the friction surface too. No scraping required!

[livelifenowff]

thats just depressing i really wanted a video of smoking calipers

[DiverRay]

Don't clean the splooge hole in the MC, and you'll see smoking brakes!!

[panshovel]

Ken I think they have gators at Mikes XS

[79XS11F]

Your bike is going to look AWESOME when completed Ken.
Rob

[badame530]

If you can

Okay, time for another variation on using an engine stand to hold an XS motor.

This unit cost me about 30 bucks at Princess Auto. It is rated for 1000 lbs.



I took the adaptor plates to a machine shop and had them grind off the small diameter collars that you would put mounting bolts through. They then welded on some pieces of larger diameter pipe threaded on the inside.



Then, I simply picked up a bunch of pieces of black pipe from a plumbing shop in various lengths, a few collars, and some 90 degree elbows. I ran the pipes out extra long on the side away from the mounting plate so I could have some handles for packing the motor up out of the basement where I rebuilt it. I put a bar through a hole in the mounting collar for two guys to hang onto, then two more guys each grabbed one of these extension handles on the other side. Worked slick, no popped nut$, etc.



This has proven to be a real handy way to paint the motor, seen in these shots with a good quality self-etching primer. Next comes the satin black paint!

If you can dig up these photos, that’d be great

[dbbrian]

Love seeing 13 year old thread resurrections!

Brian