Recent content by john83

I am finally getting started on installing the FXRS front end. I swapped in the conversion bearings with no problems. Started installing the triple trees and realized the steering stem is a bit too long. Talked about it with another forum member, Kanticoy, and he offered to whip me up a couple...

Looking so good Levi! Sent from my iPhone using DO THE TON

I might know a couple fellas that could be of help ;-) Sent from my iPhone using DO THE TON

Tell me more about how you adapted the Honda steering stem to the BSA neck. There’s a BSA project I keep seeing for sale near me with a SOHC front end on it. Sent from my iPhone using...

Took it all apart to make more room in the garage for more pressing projects. Somewhere in all this junk is a rideable BSA. One day. Sent from my iPhone using DO THE TON

Kick ass! Sent from my iPhone using DO THE TON

Engine dismantling continues. Pretty sure I discovered why it was parked. The oil pump had grenaded and it drive gear broken off. Other than that things seem okay under the timing cover. There was no gasket on the primary cover and no oil in it. The clutch discs slid out stuck together and look...

Thanks! I might just send him and offer. Sent from my iPhone using DO THE TON

Still on the hunt for a wheel for the front end. Maybe I’m being cheap but I have a hard time coming off as much money for a wheel as I spent on the whole fork. I should probably go ahead and buy some seals and rebuild the fork legs. Sent from my iPhone using DO THE TON

Finally went out and started tinkering with this thing. Figured it would be easier to yank the top end with the motor still mounted in the frame so that’s what I did. Everything thing is dirty and some things are rusty but nothing looks damaged or broken. The crank spins over very smoothly and...

There are after market cams out there too. Sent from my iPhone using DO THE TON

Was 74-75 the years with the hotter cam? Sent from my iPhone using DO THE TON

A bill is about what I’d want to spend on an XS project. Should be a fun one! Sent from my iPhone using DO THE TON

I got a set of BSA to Harley steering neck conversion bearings last week. I thought that Lowbrow Customs sold them but it turns out they discontinued them and only offer bearings for Triumphs. I shot them an email to see if the Triumphs bearings could be adapted to a BSA and it turns out the...

Hell yeah! Sent from my iPhone using DO THE TON