Iron Sportster bead blast LH case
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- I remove the footpeg stud, get the Timken bearing races out, clean and bead blast the left-hand case of a 1982 Iron Sportster engine.
A pictorial web article:
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Wish you were still making videos. You covered so many things and were very informative but still had so much more knowledge and steps to show us.
Awesome buddy
I really appreciate your thoroughness I have four Ironhead motors I'm rebuilding right now and the information I received from you is priceless I'm eternally grateful thank you very much
Man, you are like me with all those ironheads. I do have an XR-1000, but I still would call that an ironhead. Glad I could help, thanks for the comment.
Paul, there's actually a pricey tool for that snapring. It's 2 little c section "jaws", each with a couple setscrews. You clamp them by the 2 ends of that snapring with the setscrews, then use snapring pliers on the tool pieces, and it comes out like a "normal" snapring. No muss, minimal fuss, and you end up with a still serviceable snapring
Thanks for that great tip! It's no fun having that snap ring fly out, blind one eye, and then end up in the gravel driveway. I think this is the tool you mean:
www.zippersperformance.com/758-171/
I have found it is pretty easy to just push the ring in sideways, and then twist it 90 degrees and it pops in. I do wear my safety glasses. But getting it out, this might work better. The factory manual says to use a punch to gently push it out of the groove, but that might bend it too much. The tool seems worth it if you do this a lot. Thanks for the comment.
Thanks for the terrific video on cases. I have a question on a 68 XLCH case that the drain plug was cracked out so it was welded up out to the edge of the case. Well as you likely know the case warped and now there is about 0.0015" gap there with the cases bolted together. What would you do to fix that? Tried bolting clamping and heating to 440 F without success. Is it possible to machine the surface flat and true to match together again? Hopefully there is a way to get it repaired. Thanks Bill way out in Paulden AZ.
Wow, you did some smart things trying to take out the warp. I might bolt it up and heat the area around the weld, but it it didn't work in a furnace, it probably won't work with local heating either. It it really is only 1.5 mils, that does not sound like anything to worry about. I would just bolt it up using YamaBond 4 or maybe the Honda stuff.
Perhaps you meant 15 thousandths, now that is a big gap. Sportsters are pretty sloppy, so you might be able to deck an equal amount off both sides so the cases mate flush. Decking both sides half the gap will keep the con rods in the middle. But but but, maybe the gap is on one side only, so it would be better to just deck the side that got welded.
Either way, this means the pinion shaft will stick a little further into the gearcase, be sure to check that all the gears are OK. It also closes up the transmission end-play clearances. Hopefully, you can just use the end-play washers, but if you run out of washers, you will have to deck the thrust surfaces for the mainshaft and countershaft in the right-side case.
Kenny Puccio, the genius San Jose welder told me he put cases to weld on his wood stove, after he covered them with soot from an ox-acetylene tourch running no oxygen. When the case got hot enough to burn off the black soot, he would weld them. He said this minimized any warping.
@@Open-Sport Thank you for sure. Yes I end up decking the side with the warp about .001 on a granite slab then used JB weld on the little seams of the weld. Looks pretty tight and true fit up now. I was a little concerned on all the other parts and clearences being effected. But this poor engine and trans was brutlized before me. So totally reshimming everything. The only part I did not know for sure was if the crank pinnion bearing would have plenty of room side to side. This is my first ironhead build. Thanks again.
Added kroil to my ebay watch list is the can stuff as good as the aerosol? I wouldn't mind dropping a sum of that on the exhaust studs there OK just know one day irl have to get them out
I think the aerosol is just a pressurized can of the liquid. I have never used the SiliKroil stuff that has silicone in it. What I like about Kroil is that it does seem to work pretty fast, but it is always better if you can let it work for hours or days.
Also, I will be using that socket drive for the generator tester you tipped me off to next show. I think I will rebuild a -65B, I got the armature a couple days ago. I have 6 other armatures to compare for -65A generators. Everything from 20 bucks to 120 bucks. That is yet another show.
I just got off a Zoom call with my buddy Tim Regan, and mentioned your name, and he said yeah, his family was O'Regan too, but they think the "O" got left off when they came through Ellis Island. He said there is a family crest and everything for the name.
@@Open-Sport ye there's a lot of us i have 24 antis and uncles now sped all over the word my familys from Cork ireland I have dual nationality the name goes bk to a king regan the crest is a 3 fish with a upturned v from memory ye so probably related in sum way to ur buddy Tim long lost cousin
Definitely going to have to fit sum kroil never hard or seen it be for but looks to be super affective at loosing stuck bolts
Weather here has been orful this week got drenched yesterday im supposed to be going to the ace cafe london to meet up with sum friends thst are coming down from Norfolk there so hope the weather clears up for the weekend
Excellent content as always keep it up my friend
@@danieloregan2330 Oh wow, I just assumed you were in the USA since Iron Sportsters don't get to the mother country very often. My buddy Tim will get a real kick out of your comment, he described the crest the same way. He worked in the semiconductor business and they sent him to Swindon for several years.
@@Open-Sport ye im in the UK newbury Berkshire not far from Swindon at all and ur have to tell ur buddy I call him cousin Tim now lol
Old iron heads are about one of the groups i ride with is the sportster sickness UK has 9000 members and its a sportster only group witch i have posted links to ur videos on there
mines the weird model 86‐90 evolution 4 speed evolution top end re hashed Iron head bottom end for a 33 year old bike she does go well tho
I don't bead blast any cases, embedded glass might break loose later.
too bad its not going back together, with the kind of detail it would be a great series for me especially, I just bought a basket case 83 XR 1000
Yeah, I need the parts for a custom engine project. I tried to mention the assembly problems that come along, but it is not the same as actually putting it together, sorry.