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I am now on a my favorite martian kick . Loving it !

installed back wheel on my sons chopper . Chain sprockets line up perfectly!

Good to hear from you and find things are OK .  I have not posted much lately as my life has been quite busy with family . Still managing to get progress on my sons chopper project a bit at a time .

Have not seen a post from him in a while . Just wondering if anyone has had contact with him , wondering if he is doing ok ?

cleaned the engine with Dawn spray on dish soap . The stuff worked well ! Spray on ,rub it in and rinse off . Engine was not super dirty so a paint brush a gasket scraper a brass pipe cleaner style brush and some elbow grease and it cleaned up well . Engine goes back in tomorrow . Also buffed out the rear wheel spacers and rear caliper mount .

Well I removed the original ( I thought ) sprocket from the bike today to change over from the original 6 30 to 5 30 chain . The new sprocket was Identical to the old one and the old one can not be very used as it showed no signs of wear . Spent money on a sprocket I don't need but on the plus side I have most of the chain I need . Never really looked this stuff over before but it looks like the chain was changed with the sprocket ( actually had to be as its non stock 5 30 ). I am going to pressure wash the engine before it goes back in , then its time to hang the chains . I tried cleaning with that Dawn spray on dish soap and it appears to work pretty good .I also bought some stuff for cleaning Stainless steel appliances . It contains acetic acid , so I am going to try it on some inconspicuous place and see if it plays nice with aluminum . Anyone have other product suggestions that would work well for the clean up ? I have oven cleaner too , left over from the last engine cleaning I did .Our school car show is in a few weeks and I would like to have engine in , chain on ,speedo functional , and brakes working before the show . That would basically leave wiring and paint to finish . Getting pumped to actually FINISH a build as the last few I have started ended up sold before completion ( life gets in the way )       

frame is painted rustoleum semi gloss black . Metalflake is going on the tank and fender!

Did the last welding on the chopper frame . Chain tensioners are finished . tomorrow I pull the engine and paint the frame.

Koi fish are now in the pond . Did a calculation and the pond is about 1500 gallons give or take .Thought it was a lot more but its fine for the number of fish .

Got the the steering stops done on the bike today . Happy with the results  

I think I have figured out a good way to make steering stops for the chopper . Last couple of ideas were not to my liking .

spent the day getting my Koi pond ready for summer .

Today I worked on the chopper. Made the gear selector forward control . Just have to make a shaft to hook them together 16" on center . Worked on the steering stops but I dont like where its going so a re think is due . Tomorrow I will work on the brake side forward control . I will save the steering stops for last and then its time to paint the frame .

I sold some stuff to the early vultures as I didnt want to take stuff home . I had an old EElco rectangular gas pedal along with a bunch of chrome badges from the merc truck . He had 5 items and offered 20 for each , the classic bundle deal . I went for it knowing the pedal was probably worth all of that  but I saw no reason to hang on to it and didnt care about the merc badging . I have bought things from this guy before he is a young guy , polite and respectful and I know he funds much of his car habit by selling at swap meets. He actually owns a flip front chevy II that I used to own . He took it from a parts car to a magazine car. Also sold a bare powerglide case early , the guy actually only wanted the tail housing , I told him the swap has not begun yet , strip your parts off and sell it for what you paid me . I was not about to disassemble anything to sell pieces .I sold a 25TT cab once before a swap started about 20 years ago , could have sold it 5 times that day as it was left at my booth for the whole swap.It was re sold the same day by the new owners . I made more off extra parts sales that day than I had paid for my26T coupe so didnt care. All the parts came with the coupe when I bought it . My coupe body was basically a freebie.

I loved it when the carol burnet crew would lose it and just bust up . It was funny watching them try to keep it together .