@daygersden wow it looks like you've had some really cool automobiles. I work for a guy that was a hydraulics engineer here in town. And he would often buy a house and then I would do the work. He was head of the Corvette club here in South bend Indiana for many years. At one time he built a dune buggy which he was into doing dune buggy stuff it had a gasoline motor if I remember it was a kit and you could put in any motor you would get the basic dune buggy kit. But it would drive the motor would drive the gasoline motor would drive hydraulic pumps and that's what propel the tires. But he found out the insurance on selling kits such as this was astronomical. But he was a smart engineer in hydraulics
@MoeLarrycurly1 when I bought this house I couldn't fit both cars and at the time had 5 bikes. Since I didn't want to leave the cars outside I had to sell them. My old house the garage was 3 stories 3 bays. Full basement and 3rd floor workshop. Cars were stored on the second floor. Wish I had that garage at my current house
@daygersden Well I moved here in roseland Indiana. In 1979 I moved out of the big city south of us. I bought that house when I was a junior in high school but about once a year the house would get broken into while my wife and I were at work cuz we work third shift. After three or four times of that. We were tired of it we moved up here to Rosemont you know he has about 607 people in the town. Only paid $19,000 for the house or they're about but it has about a third acre. The house was pretty bad The whole town of Roseland pretty much was efficient village. But the lake to the west of us was drained for the toll road system. And the interchange. In about 27 years ago I tore that house down and built this house. One March day I just started cutting the roof off. The wife got worried so I went and bought a 30x60 tarp and threw it over the top. In the end we cut up a whole house and stuck it in a dumpster and then we started building and going upward and build a two story. Mainly it was friends from the neighborhood the kids that grew up around here. They were mainly in construction that time. And they would bring some friends that would want to come and work nobody ever got paid they were just nice that they did that. My wife and I at the time work first shift and we got home and we started doing second shift on the house. And we'd work till dark or past. Then in '05 I tore down the little teeny my leg garage and actually build a 24x36. And they're already was built probably a 20x20 behind it attached to it and I bought the house in 79. When my son was little in 1984 we built a little addition on the back of that of probably 15 by 15 just to hold all my bits and bobs. As I tended to do a lot of work on the side plumbing heating and air roofs whatever anybody wanted. But I kept a regular job during my working career. Mostly doing maintenance. My favorite they didn't pay much was it the local museum. And several churches and the hospital.
For a long time I never took forks apart. And it was always a mystery how they worked. Not that I really understand totally how they work now but I do know how they go apart and back together.
For some reason I could not get those dampers to seat, looks like they were probably original and should be replaced anyways. When I have time I'll spend some time on the old ones.
I did take my front end apart to the point of checking the bearings in the races and just putting new grease in. That's weird you couldn't get the dampers in. But I've only done front ends on a few bikes so I have no expert there
Looks like you have a nice shelf of trophies...👍🏼
All but two are from my muscle car days. Mostly for a 93 Callaway corvette supernatural 400 and a 99 Z28 with LS1 motor with 150 shot nitrous.
@daygersden wow it looks like you've had some really cool automobiles. I work for a guy that was a hydraulics engineer here in town. And he would often buy a house and then I would do the work. He was head of the Corvette club here in South bend Indiana for many years. At one time he built a dune buggy which he was into doing dune buggy stuff it had a gasoline motor if I remember it was a kit and you could put in any motor you would get the basic dune buggy kit. But it would drive the motor would drive the gasoline motor would drive hydraulic pumps and that's what propel the tires. But he found out the insurance on selling kits such as this was astronomical. But he was a smart engineer in hydraulics
@MoeLarrycurly1 when I bought this house I couldn't fit both cars and at the time had 5 bikes. Since I didn't want to leave the cars outside I had to sell them. My old house the garage was 3 stories 3 bays. Full basement and 3rd floor workshop. Cars were stored on the second floor. Wish I had that garage at my current house
@daygersden Well I moved here in roseland Indiana. In 1979 I moved out of the big city south of us. I bought that house when I was a junior in high school but about once a year the house would get broken into while my wife and I were at work cuz we work third shift. After three or four times of that. We were tired of it we moved up here to Rosemont you know he has about 607 people in the town. Only paid $19,000 for the house or they're about but it has about a third acre. The house was pretty bad The whole town of Roseland pretty much was efficient village. But the lake to the west of us was drained for the toll road system. And the interchange. In about 27 years ago I tore that house down and built this house. One March day I just started cutting the roof off. The wife got worried so I went and bought a 30x60 tarp and threw it over the top. In the end we cut up a whole house and stuck it in a dumpster and then we started building and going upward and build a two story. Mainly it was friends from the neighborhood the kids that grew up around here. They were mainly in construction that time. And they would bring some friends that would want to come and work nobody ever got paid they were just nice that they did that. My wife and I at the time work first shift and we got home and we started doing second shift on the house. And we'd work till dark or past. Then in '05 I tore down the little teeny my leg garage and actually build a 24x36. And they're already was built probably a 20x20 behind it attached to it and I bought the house in 79. When my son was little in 1984 we built a little addition on the back of that of probably 15 by 15 just to hold all my bits and bobs. As I tended to do a lot of work on the side plumbing heating and air roofs whatever anybody wanted. But I kept a regular job during my working career. Mostly doing maintenance. My favorite they didn't pay much was it the local museum. And several churches and the hospital.
For a long time I never took forks apart. And it was always a mystery how they worked. Not that I really understand totally how they work now but I do know how they go apart and back together.
For some reason I could not get those dampers to seat, looks like they were probably original and should be replaced anyways. When I have time I'll spend some time on the old ones.
I did take my front end apart to the point of checking the bearings in the races and just putting new grease in. That's weird you couldn't get the dampers in. But I've only done front ends on a few bikes so I have no expert there
Ya, didn't feel any burs on anything. They look worn so probably just as well I replaced them.
I knew a guy with a 55. His year of manufacture also. He had put a grease fitting on his. RIP Digger.
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