Well it's back from my welding buddies at P&D. The pulley require a little tweaking on their machines, but now all is good in the world.
Thankfully the belt fits. The rear axle cutouts were lengthened a tiny bit and no additional mods were required to the frame, so I got lucky there. My maths worked out and the belt I got did the business, so I'm chuffed about that.
The rear brake reservoir which was on the pulley cover is now relocated upon a small bracket on the frame which looks great.
The original idea of spacing the pulley cover out was scrapped, basically as it looked completely crap. It stepped out too far and looked blocky.
A new foot brake control arm to meet the reservoire has been knocked up, and although it's something pretty simple, it really does look the mutts love spuds!
Headlight is now mounted. After receiving the wrong bracket from a supplier from the states, they kindly sent me a free replacement... Still the wrong one though, I guess it's the thought that counts though eh? I may use it elsewhere, it's currently filed in the 'random shite box' which seems to be filling up quite nicely, with old bolts and the original loom.
Anyways here she is.
All looking good! I shall space the rear fender to be closer to the wheel, also the fender brackets haven't been assembled.
Here's the control arm. I will look into a belt cover for the pulley, I'm hoping a small plate can be screwed to the pulley just to offer a lip to the belt for safety. I'll come up with something.
The oil tank was scalloped by the P&D gurus. There really is no where to move the tank to, so this mod was the only option. I really like what they've done.
Very chuffed with the latest progress on the build. Next is to strip the bike down back to a bare frame so I can get it powder coated black.
There is some minor additional welding to be done which will be far easier to do on the empty frame. While the frame is out for paint, I shall paint the engine, and source some pipe for routing between the reservoire and rear calliper. I'm thinking black coloured solid pipe might look nicer than braided flexi-pipe. I'll see what the web has to offer.
She's getting there though and looking mighty fine!
