67 Super Hawk project

[Mike Mullins]

Here is where I am at now. Have flintlock project pretty much wrapped up, and now getting serious about riding this one in the spring. Hope the pics come through. (lower pic is what it looked like when we rolled it off the pickup truck.)
Mike Mullins

[bill440cars]

Only a matter of time before we are looking at another FINE looking Super Hawk! Look like that one is patiently waiting for that engine to be hung in the frame. Keep up the good work.


Take care, Bill

[Mike Mullins]

Progress as of today: wiring harness sort of installed, levers, and perches on, wiring routed into headlight bucket, various stuff cleaned. I finished installing a new speedo glass ( actually 0.1 in plexiglass-closest thing available locally.) I will know next time to vacuum the speedo before I install the plexiglas. The static pulls everything out of the guts of the speedo.

[Mike Mullins]

couple more pics: coils and brackets turned out nice, but the side covers look like the paint job on the old BMR R90 S ( "smoke"- remember that one ? ) Oh well, I can paint them again when it gets warmer. The pile of parts is getting smaller. Getting closer to having just the engine rebuild to finish the bike. Local bike shop can still get me a correct sealed beam headlight, and I am happy to give them the business, as little as it is. The mechanic there is a bottomless fount of information. ( and thanks to e3steve for the info posted in another section.)
Mike

[Spargett]

Looking good. Did you beadblast the condenser coil brackets?

couple more pics: coils and brackets turned out nice, but the side covers look like the paint job on the old BMR R90 S ( "smoke"- remember that one ? ) Oh well, I can paint them again when it gets warmer. The pile of parts is getting smaller. Getting closer to having just the engine rebuild to finish the bike. Local bike shop can still get me a correct sealed beam headlight, and I am happy to give them the business, as little as it is. The mechanic there is a bottomless fount of information. ( and thanks to e3steve for the info posted in another section.)
Mike

[Mike Mullins]

I do not have the equipment to do any bead blasting. I just wire brushed them after degrunging them with Purple Power. ( got a FREE Mossy Oak camo steering wheel cover for the pickup when I bought the spray bottle of Purple Power at Auto Zone ! What a deal- Hoosier bling for your truck!)
I do have one of the simple blasters where you hook it to the compressor and put the hose in a bucket of medium and blast merrily away. Works OK but of course you cant use it in the basement, and there was a foot of snow just outside the basement door at the time. (Actually you can use it in the basement, but there are domestic considerations.) I think I will use it to redo the sidecovers when the weather improves and I can do it outside.
Mike

[Mike Mullins]

Well, more progress today ( not much really). I have it wired and lights and horn worked first time !!! ( Thank you LM for clearing up the spare wires quandary. I may try to add signals later)
I started pulling the engine apart. Lo and behold, putting money in the plate on Sunday pays off !!!!
There was a master link in the cam chain !!! God does love me for sure. (my wife keeps telling this, but I have not heard any voices confirming it.)
I pulled the head and cylinders and everything looks good. There is a little varnish on the top of the piston, but since it was only run up and down my driveway several times in probably the last 20 or 30 years, I am not worried about it. Also note the pic of the cylinders. They are nice. I am sure I will need a new head gasket since there was some sort of oil leak on the front of the cylinders when we ran it. As far as I can tell it was leaking at the front just under the exhaust and toward the center of the block.
Last picture shows the reward for right living and putting your money in the plate every sunday. Benjamin Franklin is supposed to have stated that the proof that God loves us is that HE gave us beer.
Mike Mullins -thirsty Hoosier