Disc to drum conversion worked... PICS ADDED...

[Scruffy]

Finally did it this morning. Swapped a Titan hub and a tls brake plate in place of my stock disc brake front wheel. 6 washers on the right, 5 on the left, perfectly centered tire. Adjusted the fender gap, rolls cleanly, no rubbing. Brake stay bolted to the upper caliper mounting hole, the stay reshaped itself as I tightened the locking hardware to the fork leg.

Will try to get a couple pics up later, too tired to muddle with photobucket right now.

I even managed to mount up the tire, w/o popping the tube, using just a medium flat head screwdriver as a tire iron.

1998 Savage. If I can fit a vintage tls drum to one of those hodge podge cobble jobs, you guys with normal bikes should have no issues. Think you can't do it to your bike? Odds are, you can...

 

[Scruffy]

Saturday it looked like this...

Today got to this point, still have to rewire and reassemble, still need to black out the brake plate, get perches/levers/cables and trim the brake stay, hasn't been licensed since 2011... But I'm happy with today's progress.

Yep, HD half moon floorboards, Memphis Shades windshield mounts as mirror mounts, yes I snipped off the speedometer cable and left a stub because the screw is frozen to the point it broke an impact driver... And yes, in pic 3, the pinup nudes on the battery box and belt guard are in fact the one and only Betty Paige.

And yeah, I know, it's a shit box. Momentarily.

 

[bradj]

Kool man i swapped one of those hubs on to a honda fork cb450 lower / cb750 tubes i had to weld a brake stay on the fork. your looks clean

 

[mikeinnh]

Great! I have a CB77 tls front drum I'm putting on my TX650A. I needed a 17mm x 42mm x13mm bearing to mate the Honda hub to the Yamaha axle. It's a nonstandard size and I wasn't able to find anyone that had one in the U.S., but I finally found a supplier in the U.K. that had them. Kinda cool that something for my pseudo Brit bike actually came from England.

 

[Scruffy]

I lucked out, had the wheel on my 1963 CL72, had previously tested it on the Savage a few years ago. CL72 and LS650 have the same axle diameter as the Titan. So my CL will end up with the tls rear it came to me with and the sls front it came to me with. Which is fine, a 14hp street legal TT bike doesn't need super brakes anyway.

Picked up a bunch of other crap to play with last night, have to deep six the apehanger bars. Rebuilt shoulder doesn't like them anymore. FLR-P bars and seat in last night's haul. Police Road King take offs. Have to hammer some dents in the seat pan for it to sit right.