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Wow, six months since I posted anything and still where I was at on the Jatalian when I did that. :roll: In that time, though, I retired. For a couple of months, anyway. I was begged to come back as a part time 'Advisor', as needed. Just got from my fourth trip to southern Mexico, since April, last ...

The MIG conversion on the welder is complete. Not counting the gas and bottle, out of pocket was $15US for three brass fittings because I needed to see how things were going to fit before I bought the fittings. I am a business road warrior. I travel for work. A lot. I'm top tier with IHG, Hilton, an...

So got everything fixed on the welder. Or so I thought. I was having one of the same problems I was having before, intermittent wire feed. I found a teeny tiny flat spot on the drive roller. I have another roller coming next week. the grinch-I looked into the Lincoln MIG conversion and the cheap con...

The Lincoln can be converted to MIG, which will happen in the future. I do most of my welding outdoors where the shielding gas for MIG and TIG would be blown away, hence the flux core. The consumables kit showed up yesterday. I’m in the middle of the country until Thursday night. I’ll do all the mai...

Well, hell. I finally got a good weekend to take the frame outside and melt some metal. I'm using a little Lincoln 100 MIG/Flux Core wire welder I got from my sister via our Dad. The first five beads I laid down looked like I knew what I was doing. It went downhill from there. The welds were inconsi...

Wow, almost two months since I posted anything. It's also been two months since I touched the Jatalian. The plan was to take everything off the frame and haul it outside to weld everything up on a weekend if the weather was nice. Hah! First off the weather was very Great Lakes winter, meaning that t...

More progress. Engine is now where it will live. I might add two more cross members. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51852804906_dcaa17756f_z.jpg I will need to reposition the tank as it is now sitting on the engine rocker cover. After 6 weeks of minimal travel for work, SHTF tomorrow and it's b...

Making some headway with the new tube notcher.


One more square tube to notch then tack weld everything together to see where I screwed up this time.

I gave up on using bent tubes. No way to get the engine far enough forward for proper rear pulley clearance. So I opted for angle cut and welded tubes without a bend radius. Big difference. I bought a Vevor tube notcher from Amazon. I'll tell you right now, don't waste your money. It's a POS and I l...

Both harnesses are complete. One's a two wire and the other is a six wire. Yesterday I did the two wire using Weatherpak plugs, so that's a total of 8 crimped and soldered connections. At about connection #5, my Wen solder gun quit, the tip being split. I kind of did an "Aw, Crap. Now what?&quo...

New tubes bought and marked for cutting. I also bought a tube notcher for fitting the new tubes. That big Bosch starter fouled up a lot of plans. I managed to get the engine where it needs to be by drilling four new holes in the CVT backing plate to raise the back end of the plate up. Doing that als...

Nuts. Looks like I will be cutting out the tubes and trying to figure out a way to move them forward. Glad they are only tacked in place.

True, though I've not heard it called by either of those names. Myself, I call it the blue hacksaw or liquid wrench. I need to do a Farm and Fleet run for some more gas for the torches but I do have a small plasma cutter. It was nice to get back on this. I'd been so damn busy the past year with work...

I did work on the Jatalian today. Trying to fit the engine in frame. Not as fun as it sounds. Original plan was to fit the engine using 1" square tube. No go. Engine sits too high in the frame. :? https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51804594649_421662d8fb_z.jpg Using 1/8" plate was better ...

Things are kind of on hold now until the end of June 2022. I was planning on retiring on Halloween but was offered a package from work with very stupid money. I mean a lot of money, if I stay to 30 June. As I've been working since 1971, I think can do this standing on my head.

Cool.

Very cool! And kind of a Fred Flintstone BMW boxer? I thought so. Someone posted an ebay link on the VJMC FB page and I clicked. Opening bid was fifty bucks and it was located about 90 minutes away in Hebron, IN. I bid and I won. Not the most common of Briggs engines. It looks kind of like a squish...

So, it's been two months since my last post. Not a thing has happened with the Jatalian since then, either. I'm still being run hard and put away wet by my employer but there are only 79 days left until retirement. I had planned on working on the bike last week while on vacation but my Wrangler felt...

Since my last post, I managed to get the engine down from the bench to the floor, next to the frame. That's it. On the other hand, I've done 15 airplane rides for work, told my boss he could fire me if he didn't like my attitude, spent some time in Puerto Rico with a good customer, and dug out our p...

Ha. What a way to ditch the cops.
I’m not sure the Jatalian will even get up the hill by my house yet.

No worries.

It would have been a long wet slog.

What rally would that be?

Good to see the presence of that loctite in your pic. That little thumper will quickly proves its value. I still have one or two bottles left since the employer moved south. The expiration dates on the bottles required for government or military jobs was a boon to us at home fabricators. We couldn'...

My employer is running me ragged again, so not much getting done. I did get the frame tubes tacked in place so now I just need to be home for more than a weekend to find the best place to fit the engine and CVT.

I think I finally got this thing figured out.


Anybody need some Suzuki transmission parts?

We have a working front brake.

So I am this far. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51099148023_050ce27126_z.jpg This is the only way things line up because of the jackshaft bearing support on the plate. I have a reverse wound spring for the driven pulley coming, probably next week. Worse comes to worse, I'll ditch the plate and...

It's a start. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51094524214_86a4e80690_z.jpg There were three sets of mounting holes on the engine and none fit, so I ended up drilling four new holes in the plate. I'll need to come up with a spacer for the driver to get the pulleys lined up. That's what Mcmaster-C...

My tank was JB weld, RTV sealer and, Gorilla tape. It was time.

I haven't gotten that far yet. It has been one step forward and two steps back for awhile. Latest backward step has turned out to be the mounting plate for CVT. There are three bolt patterns on the engine and the bolt pattern on the plate matches none of them. :roll: Not a deal breaker. Just sigh, a...