Ryan's A.M.C.A. Giveaway bike build!

[Matthew N. Olse]

Ryan worked late last night on the bead blaster, he finished up his cylinders and they turned out really good. Anybody that has blasted cylinders in the past knows what a chore this can be.


This morning we inspected them and found a NASTY score in the bore of the rear cylinder. This is a bummer, it will have to be sleeved or replaced. Either way we will work through it and find a good solution.


Ryan told me that he wanted to cut apart his gas tank to beat out the dents and straighten out the shift gate area. So he modified the templet for the oil tank to work on the gas tank, all he had to do was cut a hole in it for clearance for the bladder ofthe gas tank.


Here is the piece after Ryan was done with it.


Ryan cut off the tabs and ground the weld around the whole diameter of the tank.



Here is what he found inside of the tank! Holy Moly there must have been a couple generations of mice living inside of the tank over the last six decades.

[c.o.]

Great stuff Matt!! Keep it comin'.........

[Paps]

Matt....Send me the screwed up rear and I'll trade it out for a rear which is at .030 o.s. and should deglaze around the same mark. If not, .005" will clean it up. It does have one small chip in one cooling fin. Easy repair though. Paps

[Matthew N. Olse]

Here is the gas tank half after Ryan sanded most of the paint off of it. It is a nice solid tank that doesn't have much rust in it.


Here is the tank after Ryan bead blasted it.


Here is the tank after an hour of beating dents out. It is getting close, but still leaves a little to be desired. Ryan is taking his time and doing a good job on it. This kid has a great sense of attention to detail.


Here are Ryan's cases before he bead blasted them. They are really nice!


Here they are after getting blasted, He still has to mask them off before we paint the insides of them. Have a good night and thanks for your interest!

[Matthew N. Olse]

Pa,
Thanks for the offer, I am not sure if we will take you up on it or not. My daddy found a rear cylinder up in his parts stash, Ryan is cleaning it up this weekend, and we will see how it turns out. We will let you know one way or the other. Thanks so much for the offer though!
best,
Matt Olsen

[Matthew N. Olse]

I left the shop around 9 last night, and my dad and ryan worked until midnight beating dents out of the gas tank. It turned out really well considering what it looked like.


The shift gate area was really beat in and battered. You can not fill this area in with bondo since the shift gate bolts to it.


I bolted in the straightening rod to keep everything in place while we beat the shift gate area out from the inside of the tank.


Ryan ran the hammer and punch, and I held the tank over a piece of wood, and this is the result. It came out really well. More updates to follow! We just got our 7/8 tubing for the frame, so we can jump back on that project.

[Ryan Mackey]

Well, I got my account on here all figured out. Thanks everybody for the kind words. Its good to know that you are all behind me like this.
Matt's friend Ole came into the shop today with the front end off his bike that he wrecked so we tried to save as much as we could from it.

It is really smashed up and I'm glad that Ole is ok because he is a really cool guy

We were able to save the brake off of the wheel which was surprising for how bad it was.

After a lot of shaping on the tank we finally got it put back together today. Here it is tacked together.

And here it is all welded up

Tonight's project is working on the shift gate!

[Slojo]

All greezzy bikers should have a new nick name given when applicable. Keep up the good work.
Joe aka "slojo"

[Ryan Mackey]

"Private Ryan"...I like it!
We got the shift gate started...there was a big gap between the tank and the gate so we bolted it on, then heated it up and tightened the screws. It worked really good and got nice and tight to the tank.

And here it is after we heated it up and tightened it

There is still a lot of work that has to go into it to get it just right, the end looks like it got a little bent so we will try to bend that back into place and also since mine is only a 3 speed, we are thinking about cutting it down and reshaping it.
I also cleaned up some engine parts after everyone left for the night

Tomorrow the plan is to get the frame tubes all bent up and put back together

[Matthew N. Olse]

We got the .7/8 tubing bent up for Ryan's lower frame tube today. It fits really well. Here is a pic of him cutting it to length.



This is a neat pic of it installed in both sockets of the frame!


Here it is loosely mocked up. I have to go find a piece of steel to use as a fixture for the back end. Progress is progress!


We will keep you guys posted!