Our Day Off

Jason sent us a text early Monday morning to rest, relax, recoup, and enjoy our day off. Team 96 has work to do.

My souvenir from Mt Rushmore. I kind of wanted one of those small statues, but got this instead

We started to work at 8:00 am, completely taking the old indian apart. The heads of the valves had just popped off, so I displayed the carnage as it came apart. It was the talk of the parking lot.

Broken valves and hammered piston

So the list of repairs and adjustments was pretty extensive, including rebuilding a motor, fixing a leaking gas tank, servicing clutch and carrier bearings, changing wheels from 23" clinchers to my spare 21", welding rear fender and making a brace, and changing carburetor. We tore into it.

About 1:00

We worked thru lunch, then thru supper, finally cranking the bike and tuning the linkert carb about 10:00 pm. It was a long day, but team 96 will start stage 10!

I cannot thank Mike Podger, Joe Gimpel, and Patty Jones enough for all there help. They hung in there all day, making it happen. 

It's the Cannonball.