Thread: 2/3 scale Indian Straight Four.

Originally Posted by Repliconics

Sight gag and a bit of an in joke for the folks at Brett's the other weekend.
I made a delicate and surgical incision into the engine!
Cut the gearbox with Paul's Keystone Bottle opener



Now all I need to do is fix the mess I've made.

Cheers
Trev.

I've seen the build photos, so I know it's 'only' a model.... But....

Somehow this was one of the most confronting and offensive photo's I've ever seen...

Akin to seeing a brand new Porsche go in the car crusher...

It felt like a kick in the guts... ugh

Originally Posted by Repliconics

Thanks for that mate it's greatly appreciated!
Once the Indian's finished I'll get started on the Brough Superior.
There's always something to build.

Trev.

Lawrence of Arabia's George V? ..........please, please, please!

Originally Posted by fletty

Lawrence of Arabia's George V? ..........please, please, please!

Do you mean George V or VII the one he when bugger up on?
Either way good idea mate.
If I'm building a Brough it may as well be one of Lawrence's.

Thanks
Trev.

Originally Posted by Repliconics

Do you mean George V or VII the one he when bugger up on?
Either way good idea mate.
If I'm building a Brough it may as well be one of Lawrence's.

Thanks
Trev.

I think the 'V' has a more classic look?
Just a suggestion Trev, I am sure that many of us who live in awe of your work would be happy to keep our eyes open for bits and pieces. When stumped, if you could let us know what you are looking for, a circle on a photo of the full size bike?
Keep up the fabulous work and thank you for sharing with us,
fletty

Originally Posted by fletty

I think the 'V' has a more classic look?
Just a suggestion Trev, I am sure that many of us who live in awe of your work would be happy to keep our eyes open for bits and pieces. When stumped, if you could let us know what you are looking for, a circle on a photo of the full size bike?
Keep up the fabulous work and thank you for sharing with us,
fletty

What I kool idea that is.
I'd really enjoy building the Brough with the addition of bits and pieces from forum members.
It would add so much to the story of the build and the object itself!
Very kool fletty luv it.

By the way I think you know your bikes.
Good call 'V' is the classic Brough Superior

Cheers
Trev.

Man oh man... I turn my back for an instant and you go to cutting things apart with a hand saw! What am I going to do with you Trev?

I'm liking the way the front forks look now. Great work!

Originally Posted by johnnie52

Man oh man... I turn my back for an instant and you go to cutting things apart with a hand saw! What am I going to do with you Trev?

I'm liking the way the front forks look now. Great work!

Thanks Johnnie I'm pretty happy with the front end as well.
But I don't think there's a hole lot that can be done with me mate.
It doesn't seem to matter where you put me on a baseball field, I always seem to wonder to the left

The front (I was about to write mudguard but I'm learning mate) "fender" is ready to be pinstriped.
So it should be back on the bike in a couple of days.

Yesterday I got the modifications to the sump done.
It's looking pretty good.



I cut the facing plate off the gearbox section and removed about 20mm from the housing.
Then reattached it and repaired the surrounding area.



As always a spray of primer and the nasty goes away!
With a sand and a new top coat it should be right to go.

Today will be a little more tricky.
I need to make the same modifications to the top of the gearbox being sure that very things aligned with the sump.
I'm a bit more confident about cutting up the top now that the sump is done.
But it's still a bit of a worry

Cheers
Trev.

That alteration is so perfect no-one would even know you have touched it, even the ones who do know.

Well that was the most nerve wracking eight hours work.
But I think I've gotten away with it.



As I did with the sump I cut the facing plate off the gearbox and removed about 20mm from the housing.
I made the cut along the back of the flywheel with a hacksaw blade held by hand.



The red arrow on the bodyfiller mark shows how far the gearbox has been reduced.
You can also see that the centre bolt tab needed to be shifted across to match the sump.



Once I had the two halves matched up and sanded down I gave it a coat of primer.
That's by far the biggest hack job I've ever had to do on any of my work.
There's still a fair bit of work to do cleaning up the modified area's and respraying them.
But the worst part is over.
I just hope that damn chain lines up after all this!

Right now a cup of coffee is the go, then I'll pinstripe the mudguard.
WOW it's just gone 2 o'clock feels the it should be midnight!

Cheers
Trev.

Yesterday was a big one getting the gearbox cut down.
It was hanging over me like a black cloud for a long time it's good to have done and out of the way.
I'll repair a few bits of damage that the engine has picked up along the way being taken in and out of the frame.
Then give the areas that need to be touched up a respray.
With a little luck the engine should be back in the frame to stay by the end of the weekend.



I managed to pinstripe the front mudguard yesterday as well.
It still needs to be clear coated and resprayed underneath but it's looking pretty good.



I'm really looking forward to the seeing the engine back in the painted frame.

Cheers
Trev.

Beautiful workmanship Trev.

Well Done !!!

Keith

I had the thought this morning that I'd best actually make sure that I had removed enough material from the gearbox
for the chain to be aligned.
So I put the top of the engine in the frame to check.



I'm happy to say there's more than enough room for the chain and it's guard.
I've just repainted the sump and I'll mask off the top of the engine shortly.
With a little luck I could have most of the engine back in the frame this afternoon.

Cheers
Trev.

Now we're getting somewhere!
I've repainted the engine and got it back in the frame.
Hopefully that's where it will stay and there's no need to take it out again.
I'm really happy with the way the bike's looking so far.





I'll take the front mudguard out now and give it a light sanding and it's first coat of clear.

Cheers
Trev.

Looking fine!

One question: how'd you make the front leaf spring? (You've probably already covered it somewhere, but there's sooooo many pages in this thread and I've so little spare time... )