SU Carbs...

The old 1976 MGB used to get a lot of love around here.



Lately, it has been relegated to the back stall and hasn't really been run for several years.




The carbs had gummed up pretty good so I figured it was time to clean them up a bit...



I spread them out on the bench and found them to be in great condition other than being pretty dirty.



They're all cleaned up and reassembled with new main jets ready to go back in...



I just love old HS series SUs. They are elegant, simple little things...

Pretty Lazy About Posting Lately

Been awful busy getting the yard in shape. (Note to self... get less than three acres to mow when you buy your next house).

The Day the Bridgeport Came to Live With Me

The lengths we go to to feed a cobbling obsession. Dale and Bob brought the Bridgeport down from the northside of Detroit and David and Dan rigged and offloaded it.

The elegant little Logan looked good next to it but it was replaced shortly afterwards with the 14.5" swing South Bend...

Snow- NW Ohio Style

Nothing messes up an old barn with a northern exposure more than a Northeast howling wind and four or five inches of snow in NW Ohio. Five foot drifts and no snow at all around 'em... Gimme the UP any day...

And the Hacks Keep Coming...

So after all the rest, I stumbled onto this one. I was looking for a decent cone shovel for a regular rider this summer and quite by accident stumbled onto a 1980 FLH with a factory hack. The color and the hack mural fuzz the line of dopey, but overall things are promising. I was just loosening up a little room in the barn too. Oh well....

So Did I Ever Mention I like Sidecars?

To date, I have only ever had one sidehack bike (bringouturdead-see top picture) licensed and on the road, but I have started and stopped several projects. I bought a hack from Alex in New York that was to go on the original '70 Goose. I sold that to Brad and bought a newer velorex 562 hack from a local shop. Then to finance the Indian project everything was sold. Last winter I picked up the '71 Ambo and later at Davenport bought what seemed like a great body for a hack. Just this fall I snagged another old Hack for it also.
That's where I was up through the weekend. Then yesterday I travelled with Tommy up to the NW Detroit suburbs and came home with a rather unintentional '80 FLH Harley with an OEM hack. I'll give that its own entry after a blast from the past on current hacks and hacks of yore....

This Doesn't Happen Often Here...

I can tear stuff apart but it isn't that often one goes back together. The Chief is pretty well a Chief now...