mated a late model sporty drum to the 19" mag today. Took a lil bit of work and some bruises but it looks like it will work out. I ended up welding all the holes in the drum closed, opened up the id to clear the sealed bearing and then redrilled the holes in the proper pattern to bolt it up to the wheel. Now for the bruises part, Well the great great grandfather of the terminator A.K.A our bridgeport kicked my ass earlier today. I was tightening the spindle nut and the in my haste i accidentally hit the on switch with the swivel wrench. Oh shit brain mode kicked in and i tried to get the fuck out of the way of the projectile wrench but i still ended up with a possibly fractured left pinky a pretty good goose egg on my right forearm and a pretty solid hit to the head from the ball end of the wrench. A few minutes of cursing, walking around and a couple of cigs and i was all good to go back to drilling holes and shit. More carefully though.
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that's going to be a good looking sporty...
I'm about to fit a 39mm fork on my 74. anything i need to be aware of? Looks like you had to cut the tab on the bottom triple to clear the frame...
Thanks man.
yeah, i had to cut the tab off the lower tree. If you go with a later model 39 then you can avoid that part of it. I believe its 04 and up 39's that don't have that tab. The other thing your gonna have to make up is a fork stop. The way i did this one is i converted to timkin bearings and just welded the new neck cups in then made a lil stock style stop tab that gets welded right to the lower neck cup. I'll throw some pics up a bit later.
best of luck
Thanks for the info! Yeah, I got the same tab...have an 02 front end. I'm also doing the timken kit conversion. the kit I got, actually just got it in the mail today, has a fork stop built in. Hopefully I'll get to this over the weekend to see if it all fits. Just need to find someone with a welder now...
Thanks again.
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