Re: Demonic Custom Sportster Build plan. WideassTurbo

Re: Demonic Custom Sportster Build plan. WideassTurbo


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Re: Demonic Custom Sportster Build plan. WideassTurbo

Her ass transplant operation has begun today!

Re: Demonic Custom Sportster Build plan. WideassTurbo

Thanks for sharing this with us, appreciated!

This is Epic..fully glued to the seat


ATGATT !!!

Cheers,
WindPacer

Re: Demonic Custom Sportster Build plan. WideassTurbo

Neither the stock chassis/ frame nor the stock swingarm will take a 240.
So they are being chopped , split and widened tonite.

Re: Demonic Custom Sportster Build plan. WideassTurbo

Would you be showing us how you do that?

Re: Demonic Custom Sportster Build plan. WideassTurbo

Of course not!

Re: Demonic Custom Sportster Build plan. WideassTurbo

Hahaha. Waiting for the end result then!

Re: Demonic Custom Sportster Build plan. WideassTurbo

Seat( stock solo) for Sportsters ,came in yesterday.
Construction of workshop is again back to normal pace , after it was put on hold because of excavation bans in uttrakhand. Cost if building material went through the over night.




This is going to be 400sqmtrs of covered space. But looks like it will take few months before machines could be brought in.
But then this particular build will be long done.

Re: Demonic Custom Sportster Build plan. WideassTurbo

These freaks at Harley, they think they are making a tank for battle.
I am just trying to recover from shock and labour of spending 7 hours straight , relentless effort at undoing one freaking nut.
Manual says 600nm opening torque. I pretty much went over 2500nm and the nut did not even budge a little. Neither it lost its head. This is one crazy mofo.


This front pulley nut. 1 7/8 inch.
I had to undo this on my previous sportster also for wide tyre . it did act similarly but then ,finally it gave up at sight of some truck crow bars and my 80kgf gravity hanging on that 2 meter crowbar.
This time nothing.
Big problem in this is , its gearbox shaft on which front belt pully is mounted. When u try to turn the nut , instead of opening , whole pully simply rotates and turns the gearbox shaft. Then there is a thing to do. Putting the vehicle in 1st gear. So that the pully locks up. Only the nut turns.
But this never works. Cuz official 600nm opening torque , it can turn the whole engine over very easy.
Thats why there is a pully locking tool that Harley sells for about 25k.
I obviously don't have it. Afterall last time I didnt need it.
Last time I locked the pully using a 2 incj C clamp hooked onto the tooth . it worked.
See what happened to that method this time.


It dreaming destroyed that whole freaking idea , along with destroying the C clamp.
But any way something had to be done. I simply can't put off this thing to wait for official HD pully locking tool.
So I set about making my own pully locking tool.
Here it is.



Using the already redundant exhaust bracket , finding a bolt that matched the tooth grove pattern. Weld the bolt in place . put the exhaust bracket back into the bike with whatever fasteners it came with.
And now put on that socket onto the bolt , elongate the leverage using some steel rod. Hang onto that ***** till she gives in. Hoping it won't break away the welding on the holding bolt.


Finally some luck.
But in process , this thing bent a 1 inch thick chrome moly socket adapter bar.
This ***** is bad.

Re: Demonic Custom Sportster Build plan. WideassTurbo

Wow. But i would count that as a negative. If it is prescribed at 600 Nm, then requiring 4 times that torque to open it means something isn't quite right!

Re: Demonic Custom Sportster Build plan. WideassTurbo

Wht would u do ? If its not opening in 600nm? Eventually younwill have to increase torque ,Even if I buy a pully locking tool. It will at most hold the pully in place and not let it rotate when torque to nut is applied. So in any case this had to be applied.
And I know how HD people would have landed on that 600number.
Two reasons.
First they use AiR Impact wrench at factory , which although applies much less torque , but gives impacting( sort of hammering) action . kat-kat-kat-kat. That air tool hits the bolt several 100 times per minute before the bolt actually starts to rotate and open.
That air impact gun costs 122000/- here . I obviously won't go for it for just one bolt like that on the bike. I rather have several smaller and cheaper impact guns.
Secondly its the locktite they apply. It keeps hardening with age and only impact guns can dislodge it effectively.
Most of that 2000+ NM went into breaking off layers of locktite within threads.
My major problem was locking the pully in place . now that I have a bracket and pully locking/ holding tool. It has done the job nicely, next time I recon it would be a 15 minutes job.

There are hundreds of people in world who reported that they had to eventually cut off that bolt on sportster using a blow torch , some even destroyed pulley of their bikes.

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Re: Demonic Custom Sportster Build plan. WideassTurbo

Ah. Makes sense. Thanks for the explanation. I wasn't questioning your action of applying more torque, but the fact that more torque was required at all. Though your explanation of the locktite cleared that up.

Though the last line again makes it sound bad for HD. If a lot of people face this problem does it then become a design deficiency? Do bikes of other manufacturers have similar complications for something as you say should be a 15 minute job?

Re: Demonic Custom Sportster Build plan. WideassTurbo

Those 100s of people re cheap ass like me , who do not buy the locking tool Harley sells.. Lol.
Our breed is like , well its just a freaking nut , we will get around it by hook or crook. And eventually everyone does , you just need to be stubborn.

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Re: Demonic Custom Sportster Build plan. WideassTurbo

Any way have ordered Bosch cordless impact driver . which will make mince meat of most of the fastners , probably still won't so this pulley nut .

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