Brian’s bike update

Finally found the correct flaring tool for the oil lines. So I whipped up a half set, that mate to the hex horseshoe tank on Brian’s bike, I will use rubber to attach to pump. The nice thing about stainless is you don’t have to worry about the chrome flaking off when you’re manipulating the bends getting everything to line up. 

I wound up picking up a 37* flaring tool from inlinetube.com, It was quite the nut at 173.00 shipped but wow it works nice. The stainless tubing is 3/8”x .028 wall picked up from jegs. Normally the wall size for most other metal tubing is around .35 or so and I had trouble getting the stainless to hold in the economical flaring tool. 

Brian was looking for an upsweep on his pipes. When I do exhausts, anything to help hold it in place is your friend no matter what the material. Tie wraps, shims, wood, hose clamps drilled out, your kids, your girl, your dog, a drinking buddy whatever you need to get those initial tacks in place. Who cares how the real fab guys do it.

I use a pipe sander and also add some silicone bronze for any imperfections that I may have at the weld seam. Try to get it as nice as I could and than let the chromer do the rest of the magic 

For whatever reason. This is my favorite setup for the lower pipe that rides along the frame rail. A #4 tab for the exhaust, then drill lower frame rail and drop in a tophat bung. I like the slim tophats because I like to wear slim fit womens jeans while I work on Brian’s bike. (It makes me feel again) and also you don’t have to hog the hole out as much. 

Here’s the exhaust in its final place. Long enough to flow but short enough he won’t drag it on the ground when he’s pulling 12 O’Clocks on the way to pick up more diapers for his mini him. 

License plate bracket, that mounts to the rear studs of the bearing support plate on later model 4 speed trans. You get the point. Nice and tighty