hi i'm paul brodie there's i think the three of us here there's the viewer me and mitch
we're gonna be working on the on the tiger cub today and i got some stuff out of england i got
these these are the head and the barrel studs now on the last video we did
i talked about these and i called i called them exhaust studs if you're wondering why
i only have two exhaust studs it's because i only have two exhaust studs nobody caught it
not a single one i know that you're all eagle-eyed and you're looking around and you see everything
but you missed that one exhausted these are not exhausted so anyway i've got them those are good
i got another nice package this is from mike at hooligans look what mike said
fork seals allen screws and look at that a gold spot plug i really like it how many of you have
a gold spot plug so we're going to talk about a few things these are the axle adjusters on the cub
this is basically what i start with and can you see how this piece of sheet metal it's
it gets bent so i wasn't happy with that at all so what i did was i be blasted those pieces and
i made them unbent and then i braised them together here you can see all the braids
and then held it in the vise and i didn't even have to mark the center of the hole because
see there that just lets the drill start exactly in the middle and then after all that i got them
nickel plated and i think they look very nice so these parts are all nickel plated i made these
oversized nuts as well so that's the basic finished product and it's not going to bend
all of the stock ones i've seen are all bent i want to talk a little bit about
the header that we made last last episode on on the cub it's the first header that i made
out of this type of material it's stainless usually i just make a header out of regular
tubing and then when there's a low spot i take the brazing rod i fill it in i sand it all up but
making one that looks perfectly smooth out of stainless i discovered is a lot more work because
what happened down here there was a short piece of angled tubing right here and this is basically
what happened on the on the top on this part here i matched all the surfaces really well
so something like that and then on the bottom it was something like that so it had to be filled in
i did i did i did tig passes and then i filed it all up so i had a low spot
kind of on the top and on the bottom and on the back
so i filled those in it it took several hours a bunch of hours i did the top i did the bottom so
what i discovered was that when you do that it pulls it definitely pulls having that heat
the rod it pulls so what happened is is the top it canceled out the bottom and it stayed the same
but then when i filled in the back it pulled and then when i put the muffler on when i got it all
sanded up really nicely now the muffler was hitting on the swing arm so that's no good at
all i can't have that so what i did and mitch is going to show you a photo i put the header
back into the bench vise and i took a hacksaw and i cut
i cut halfway and then i i pulled it and then i welded it all again so now i got space here
and i got space here but that was a lot of work a lot more work than i anticipated so
exhaust pipe is looking good now i'm happy with it after we've done all that talking now we're
going to assemble the front end of the cub i got new fork tubes out of england i got new bushings
checking the fit there we go that's good and then this goes on top that's the thread
just a little bit of oil just a little little bit of lube
so
so they go like that on the bike and these have to go down so i found a socket you see
how the socket is a good match for that size and abba press is a good place to do this
oh that's going in well
okay can you see how it's installed now
there's the other side i was reading in the manual last night because you know i want to be up to
date on all this stuff and there's a space here and this screws on and i imagine that oil can leak
under the seal and out the thread so i'm supposed to take a piece of medium twine
that's what it says right there medium twine can you see that let's see it again medium twine
i don't know if i have any medium twine i thought i'd find a so i guess that's supposed
to wrap around there or something so i'm not sure about that so i found an o-ring but i
don't think an o-ring is going to go in that space if i put the o-ring on top and tighten
it down it's just going to squish so that's not good so we'll just assemble it like it is
so it should go on pretty nicely i put a little bit of oil on the seals
see i've got a little bit of anti-seize there i know that there are people looking to see
what's going on
that's the special tool we made when we took these apart it's like a it's kind of a sea wrench
and it works nicely here it's good to have the right tool for
this job if you don't use the right tool you'll make a mess of the part
okay you don't want to make it super tight
inside the booty it's like a rounded section there so if you're looking at it there's the outside
i don't know what that does on some motorcycle it fits in somewhere but on this bike
it seems like this fits onto here nicely i've got that on there and then
this goes on on the bottom and so when you put it on it doesn't sit properly and then the hose
clamp it always sits at it it sits at an angle either this way or that way so what i did on
this one here i was experimenting last night can you see how it's gone that lip is gone now
we're gonna add on the triple clamps now so a little bit of white lithium grease
i don't think it's any rocket science stuff
i have brand new balls so we'll use those yeah one quarter inch and we want to leave one space
because otherwise it's too much
that's the one space right there you can't fit a ball in there it's not enough room
foreign here's the custom cover that got made
there's the top nut
okay we have something going on here
and we have some slop see that
i think what i have to do is just uh
knock off the threads a little bit they just don't quite go far enough down let's have a look
oh i know what it is i know what it is
that's what the washes i was looking at this washer and i was thinking
what what is that for i couldn't okay because you don't want the
knot going right onto the soft and well anodizing hot anodizing look at that okay
almost left out a piece
one little washer how thick is that 30 thou i don't know and now it works okay so
i'm not losing it don't worry it's okay
so there's no no slop i got the stops for the steering see these these are those alloy
alloy nuts that i made and can you see how that works that's the steering stop
both sides so that works fine there's some sort of a
it's like a fiber washer and that goes under the spring on top of the oil seal so i'll put those on
okay
and these spaces go in the top if i don't put these in these are
aluminum anodized then it rattles on the top so can you see how that
fits like that so all you get to see is that little shoulder right there just
just the very top of it everything else is hidden
now we have to put the forks up there what's interesting about this is that
in the hanes manual it doesn't mention any special tool well it does mention a special
tool it mentions a broom handle it tells you that what you're supposed to do i guess you're supposed
to cut your broom handle off or whatever and the broom handle it threads into here so that you have
to have something which which pulls up the fork too because there's no way if you look at this
see how this slides that's how the travel works when you put that up like that you can't push it
up all the way i tried and it doesn't work so what i did i made a special tool and this is the tool
it's the same thread i went on my lathe and i just cut a really quick thread and i've got a handle up
here so i can put it on and so in the manual in the hanes manual it says you have to be careful
when you're using a broom handle because you don't want any wood to fall down inside the fork tube
no i wouldn't want wood inside my fork tube at all so i'm hoping that this is all good
not the easiest fork for assembly that's what i think but kind of cool
this is where the fork tube gets slightly larger and it's got to go into the triple clamp
so maybe i'll put on the handle just so it doesn't slip down
and there's the thread that's what we want because that's where the nut goes into okay it's got
anti-seize in there i don't think there's a washer here i think it just goes straight in i should
be adding folk oil but i don't have any full coil so i'm gonna have to backtrack a little bit there
nice
i couldn't have done this with a broom handle i was just talking mitch about that and there
is no way that if you put a broom handle in there you could have the force to turn it and pull it up
because on this i can turn it with a wrench and pull it up so
there we go i i put a little bit of oil on the tube there i think that would help
okay i got the two fender stays and can you see how they're
can you see how this one is slightly slightly longer it does make a difference
i won't do anything up tight here this is just going to be this is mark up
okay there we go we got a fender it doesn't need to be more uniform in the shine
but we've got a fender see these here these are made out of aluminum they're anodized
these are the spacers to go in there i think this is a french headlight it's hard to find used stuff
all black it's nice when everything's black
just a little dab remember this this is the mount for the speedo
oh look at that little speedo
this is made in india or it came from india
and some people have said oh it's not going to last at all
still have to figure out how to hook up the cable because the ends don't quite match on either end
funny how that is but anyway it looks like a speedo if i was out and i got stopped by
the bobbies got a speedo with less than one mile on it see that little slot right there
there's there needs to be a little piece that hooks into there and i don't have that piece so
that has to be made i got this used off a friend thank you robert robert watson
see how it's a little looser i'm going to put a little tiny bit of masking tape there so
if that fell on the ground that would be a shame
for safety okay see this is a
a two-piece i like the oldest doll it was just one piece and a pinch lug
so if you know where to buy any of the one piece i'd like to have a few of those that'd be nice
it's been great having you in the shop here thank you very much
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we'll see you next time you take care bye
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