I picked up the plates for the bell hangers yesterday. Beautiful job and I didn't have to do anything other than drop off the drawing and pick up the finished parts. I'm going to try and get them welded up today but there's a couple of other things on the schedule that might take precedence.
The muffler inserts for the Sportster's drag pipes were a little too big to fit in the pipes. I hammered on one for a while, but it wasn't working like I wanted it to. I chucked up a scrap piece of heavy wall pipe and bored the ID to just a bit under the ID of the pipes. I drove the muffler insert down into the pipe and it shrunk the OD on the insert right nicely. You can see the insert inside the pipe in the bottom photo.
I got the inserts installed into the pipes and started the bike. It seems to be a little quieter but it's still noisy. I have some packing material, so I might try wrapping the insert with a little of it and see what happens then. If it's still obnoxiously loud, I'll shop for some mufflers.
I laid out the plates for the skids on the grader blade for the Allis yesterday as well. Again, depending on how things shake out, I'll try to get those cut out today as well.
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