39 el, 65 FLH and 46 fl

 We made some progress on this 39 EL on Wednesday,  it is sherwood green and silver, which are colors from 1936.  It is going to look really nice.  

I have to fit the inner primary cover and the chainguard tab, and get them over to Mike for some black paint

 We have been jamming out on Jason's 65, this  bike needs more lights

We got all of the turn signals working, and also switched out the one nos super soft muffler to a regular muffler, so now they both have the same amount of baffling and are both brand new.

 This is another really exciting project we are happy to announce.  This is a 1936 to 1945 Headlight bracket, that we just had made.   The originals are very difficult to find  and are always mangled, cracked and beat up.  There have been a few other companies that have tried to replicate this bracket, but its very difficult to get the aesthetic bends right. We pretty much ran out of good originals, so we took the one off of our 37 and had it copied.   They are made in America and primo.  Email the shop if you would like one, before theyre all sold out

Blurry iphone photo

 And This 46 got shipped out this week.  I am looking forward to seeing it on the east coast, but it was a sad day to see it leave.

silver paint and vard forks

 We are sorting out all of the oil pump and lifter blocks that need to get painted for this batch of motors.  It is pretty tedious and repetitive work.  Lots of solvent, water, compressed air, electric contact cleaner over and over.   Anyways,  I wanted to take a picture of this 38- 40 oil pump that is for a 40 el motor that we are doing.  The customer supplied it, and bought it on ebay.  It is a new old stock oilpump and has never been ran.  this is pretty wild,   It is painted white, so that means that it was probably made during the 42 to early 46 war years.   I have never seen one, and am pumped that I get to inspect it and use it.

 Oil pumps in 1940 were painted with silver paint, so we are repainting it the correct color. While i was blasting and prepping the pump for different paint i noticed that the welch plug was put in with red sealer, and then painted.  I dont know why i took a picture,  I just thought it was neat.

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Here are some of the bearing cages that we are using for our motors.  We have these made for us, since originals are almost impossible to find and the other repro ones that are made in china are terrible.   

 My friend Harpoon made a website for his vard front end project.  These things are really nice and all made in the USA,  They are a very limited production part,  go check out his website at www.vardmfg.com to figure out how to get one for your bike.