Thu Aug 11, 2016 3:39 am by manicmechanic
There is a junk yard where there were , I think , 5 or so KB 6's and 7a 's , it's been there about 50 years or so . the guy that runs it now , son of the original owner has become a good friend . He runs a KB 7 for his roll back . He has modified it , and when I say modified I mean that he basicly built a truck around the frame , that's why he uses it because of the weight capacity of the frame . He built the cab from scrap sheet metal. Anyway he gave me sometime back a service manual , that covers the L,R,& S series and then some . One section that I have used is the rebuild on the BD 308 , although I had a shop do the work , I read thru it and it has it pretty much covered . I remember it the manual that I had for a 48 panhead a picture of a flywheel assembly with a guy using a hammer to true up the flywheel , anybody remember that ? I guess what I am saying is that there are , if you look , manuals that have more information than others . What we a loosing these days are the people that know how to apply that information , retain it and are able to pass it on , the real test of wether or not it is retained , and not just what is in those books but the other problems that invariarably arise in the course of most projects , like you say CB 89 . What we are loosing is character . The ability to see things thru complete , not outsourcing , not clicking on some thing in the spirt of techknoledgy. Not that it's bad , I use U-tube all the time , I think its great . the reason that I'm even posting here is because I learned to use this computer as a result or doing my truck . But there is a big difference between finding something on U-tube and say ,like talking to Pappy Vance RIP , or any other of a number of you gents that have kept me steering straight , your patience is appriecieated . The older ways were much more personal , not as indifferent , if that is the right word , or maybe spread thin as the resource diminishes would better describe the difference .When I started out my apprenticeship as a carpenter , early 70's those old guys were fading out . they didn't just teach me carpentry , they gave me a perspective , they had a look in their eye , a way of speaking that meant something hard to describe . I've said before that I wasn't the carpentery lessons that I really liked or benifitted from , I just liked being around them . If they all drove trucks instead of banging nails I would be a truck driver now . We are loosing our heritage .