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Other Things Simplex / Re: Where is everyone from?
« on: August 30, 2014, 11:54:23 AM »
Clinton dropped bombs,  Bush let him escape into the mountains.  Still looking for the WMDs...and looking...and the oil that would fund the whole endeavor.  Those no-bid Halliburton contracts worked out great...and cost taxpayer $2 trillion!  We could have paved every street on the USA. 

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Other Things Simplex / Re: Where is everyone from?
« on: August 30, 2014, 10:12:31 AM »
Mission Accomplished...uh...maybe not.  Off topic.

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Other Things Simplex / Re: Where is everyone from?
« on: August 30, 2014, 08:07:26 AM »
Maybe Barry should help the economy by selling missiles to Iran like Ronnie did? 

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Other Things Simplex / Re: Where is everyone from?
« on: August 29, 2014, 09:50:08 PM »
Whittier, California, 30 miles east of Los Angeles, hometown of President Richard Nixon.  (We're not real proud of that but that's the way it is!)   I was Mayor of Whittier, (a night job), on 9/11.  Fun times.

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Engine & Transmission / Re: Cracked engine tab
« on: August 28, 2014, 11:08:22 PM »
When I got my cycle, the tab was already welded by the previous owner.  But mine was already cracked next to the repair weld.  (The heat from a heliarc weld will weaken metal next to a weld).

BTW, Wayne Mahaffey sells a repop bracket.  I bought one but fabricated a new bracket myself that fit my cycle better.  His has 2 holes for the spark plug wires to pass through and is a nice heavy-duty piece.

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Engine & Transmission / Cracked engine tab
« on: August 27, 2014, 10:33:51 PM »
An observation that I have not seen discussed:  On my 1957 Automatic,  I noticed a hairline crack in the inside corner of the right rear engine tab near the bolt hole for the where the engine bolts down to the motor mount plate.  It seems like this might be a common problem.  When the bracket is missing that bolts the head stud up to the frame, (like mine was), the engine is being forced upwards when the kickstarter is used.  And with a missing top-of-engine bracket, the aluminum case becomes the weak point and cracks as a result. 
Just welding the cracked case won't fix the problem.  The top bracket on the engine head was there for a reason - to hold the engine down to the frame.  Good design after all.

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