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As
we barely had a winter to speak of, and I have been working
my ass off with almost no time for my own projects, I
have been riding this bike the way it is for a few months
now. Time for a change! I still had the stock aircleaner
in my shed and I like the look of that, however it would
not fit on an S&S G carb without some modifications... |
After
removing the S&S aircleaner I tried on an adaptor
I had bought from W&W. This adaptor had an S&S
bolt pattern on the rear and a HD bolt pattern on the
front. There were 2 small problems, the screws on the
rear were now impossible to reach (ofcourse I could have
used hex-heads but I could not find any that day..) and
the diameter of the adaptor bore was smaller than that
of the S&S G carb.
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I
machined the bore of the adaptor a bit bigger on the lathe,
not as big as I would have liked but I needed to keep
some wall thickness. For the screws I made a little special
tool and mounted the adaptor with that. Next step was
installing the stock backing plate. I welded on a piece
of pipe for the breather hose and closed a hole that was
no longer needed, made a support bracket to keep the weight
of the carb off the intake rubbers and the job was done. |
To
be honest I like the looks of the aircleaner but am not
quite satisfied with the adaptor. For now I will ride
it like this but as soon as I have some sparetime and
it is raining, I will make a whole new aircleaner backing
plate that bolts directly to the S&S G..... |
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