Linkages and Shoe Polish

[ThatOneBlue67]

Well, I've just about finished with this project except that something was put back together incorrectly during the carb rebuild. Something involving the floats as the new carburetor wants to flood everytime I continue cranking the motor over. Dad and I will look that over tonight (I'll admit that he and I are both still learning about carburetors as well as other things).

As this conversion (from 1bbl to 2bbl) is not that common my dad and I came up with a rather unique linkage setup. We ended up using the original bell crank but extended the pin it balances it on and welded on a new stopper (washer). We then welded on a flat piece of metal to the other end that extended upward and a linkage from that to the carb. Hard to explain, but the picture explains it better than I do...



As for the shoe polish I metioned earler.

I watched "The World's Fastest Indan" the other day starring Sir Anthony Hopkins. Great, GREAT movie! Really cool stuff. Little different.... but definetly worth ATLEAST a trip to the video rental place.

Anyway, in the movie the main character used shoe polish to "brighten" up his motorcycle tires. I gave it a go on just one of my tires, and it covers up discoloring and scuffs against the curb pretty well. Hard to tell in the pictures as my digital camera is actually a video camera, but maybe you can tell..... The second tire (though different) looked as bad as the first one.