More Panther Work

Continuing Disassembly

Or As We Say In These Parts Tear Down

The first order of business was to remove the primary covers and the clutch assembly.

The nut holding the clutch basket was pretty tight, I made a locking tool from one that I had bought years ago for the HD Sportster I owned at the time. A tie down strap around the outside of the clutch held the lock bar in place.

The lock washer is toast, when I straightened the lock tab, it snapped off.

The nut still did not want to come loose with a socket and breaker bar.

My impact wrench did nothing to move the nut.

By chance, I got a flyer from Chinese Charlie's AKA Harbor Freight for a special on tools.

A new impact wrench seemed like a good idea.

The special California model...

The Earthquake Model, 800 Ft Lbs from a 1/2" impact.

I have no way of testing that claim, but that nut came off in a hurry.

Now that Sheddington has acquired an EZ UP, a banner was needed,

It is mostly to provide shade from the sun whilst working outside.

A necessity last week.

Fortunately, Sheddington works is located right next to the bar.

Sometimes, you just need to re-hydrate.

Back to the plot, the brass rod arrived from Amazon and four plugs were made for the fork stanchion.

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The plugs were pressed in to the holes and silver soldered in place.

Then a clean up cut was taken over the tops of the plugs.

Then two new holes were drilled to match the size and location of the other stanchion.

As I said the EZ UP is MOSTLY for shade.

Now the big change hit and it was needed as a rain shelter!

When that happens, I just put away the tools, close up the sheds and break out my other tool kit.

I got to work making home made ravioli.

All made in house, the pasta, the filling and the sauce.

Very good it was too, even though I say so myself.

Hey, Leon

I'm beginning to act like Geordie John, mixing cooking and the workshop.

But at least I don't use a drill motor to stir the ingredients.

Ciao Bella

More Soon

Norm