Bobber Restoration – Another Surprise
I didn’t get a super long amount of time on the bike, but wanted to see if I couldn’t figure out where the tapping was coming from. One possible occurrence can generally be from the tension on the cam chain needing adjusting. So, I set out to remedy this and found the front lock nut and the two rear lock nuts in charge of adjustment. The instructions for this bike is pretty simple:
- Start the engine, let it idle
- Loosen then tighten the front lock nut and bolt
- Loosen then tighten the two rear lock nuts
Got the engine started, loosened the front lock nut and bolt, and then realized that I couldn’t tighten it.
Stripped hole for the front cam chain lock nut.
Might be a little hard to see, but hole that the lock nut came from is stripped clean. Kind of hard to tighten it down when there are no threads to tighten it with. Set out to get a helicoil set to fix this, but it turns out that the clearance to drill out the hole is interrupted by the frame itself. Have some ideas to fix this, but it’s going to have to wait.