yeah, the thrust washer thing got me too, I gathered you micro'd the rods first. I'm sure the rods were pretty much spot on, but thanks for the vid, people really appreciate the time taken to do this, and potentially a loss of business for you guys for the DIYers. Thats the bit I really appreciate. In saying that, who wouldnt pay the bucks for the right guys with kudos of knowledge and the right tools. Its amazing you guys do in 1 hour what would take me 3 days . All the best, thanks again. And I'm just talking street.
Hi Joe Ya, you would have been watching the video for about another couple hours LOL! And we would have had to edit in a ton of Bleeps for all the bad words LOL!
You have to show the flywheel truing process. This video was like leaving the movie halfway through. You don’t know how it ended! Maybe you could do a video on just truing flywheels.
Tatro shows this process on his youtube site many times. Dang, sure wish I had a truing stand. I had to make one out of a wheel truing stand, which didn't work very well.
So after watching the video a few times I notice their is no thrust washers on the crank pin for the bearings. I looked at the catalog and do not see thrust washers on the parts list either. However, I have a complete S&S flywheel, and can see the thrust washers installed. Can you help me understand what is going on, or did I miss something. Thanks, Joe.
Hi Joe You do not need the thrust washers on the S&S flywheels unless they machined them to accept the thrust washers. On mine the flywheels were flat, which did not call for thrust washers. Hope this helps.
why do you guys run the rods backwards? didn't they do that on old UL flatheads? I always thought that the female rod went on the back to fling oil onto the front cylinder? does that change the balance percentage?
the XB crank is a press together crank, I wanted a rebuild able crank. we do not do press together cranks here. I would of had to send it out to Darkhorse to have it built which would have been a lot more expensive. Also, I wanted to use the stock motor sprocket shaft so I can go with a 30 tooth aluminum motor sprocket.
