Cutdown!

Left Tank......check.

Right Tank.....Check.

They fit, real nice.

Everyone loves a 3/4 rear.   Got to get the seat tee welded up, then the seat goes off to Chuck at the Saddle Shop.   John.....get your ass up here and lets finish these tanks.  T-minus 31 days till big mountain.  Its gonna be a push.

Cutdown Tank Progress

Measure, remeasure, then measure again

Cut out the shaded sections.......

4 inches cut out on top and bottom, with a line connecting the two sections (front and back).  Imagine the rear part of the tank just sliding forward.   This keeps the gas cap and the bend of the top of the tank the same.

A few tack welds to hold it together

Perfect fit.  Check out the pockets in the tank around the intake rockers.  No interference.  I hope the left tank fits this nice.  I just finished cleaning it out and I think John's coming up on Sunday to go another round.

Cutdown Tanks

Been working on the cutdown tanks with John.  Cleaning them was hell.  We cut 3.5 inches out of the right tank so far, and have them lined up to be welded back together.

Things are going nicely

Cutdown!

It Fits!

Fit the motor temporarily.  Everything lines up nice. I'm already dreaming about riding it.

Upcoming Projects....

A few months back, I started building a 1916 Harley Cutdown.  A chopper from the teens/twenties you might say.  Progress is coming along well.

Read about it in CycleSouce in my monthly "Fire and The Wheel" column.

Motor and Tranny work are done.  Heres the vision before we started cutting the frame.

The point of no return........

Strung out....I mean strung up.

Mocked up for the first time.  It sits low...about 3" ground clearance. Check out the difference between the frame from pic 1 to pic 4.