Schebler HX bowl needed

[DanM]

I'm still searching for a bowl for my HX 181. The bowl will be about 1 13/16" high, and has stright sides- they don't curve in at the top. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[T. Cotten]

I'm still searching for a bowl for my HX 181. The bowl will be about 1 13/16" high, and has stright sides- they don't curve in at the top. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Dan!

I hope this example helps; Note that the bowlcap is close to the same level as the top of the bowl, almost.

...Cotten
PS: Which side of the carb should the bowl be located?

[Chris Haynes]

I have this bowl. I don't know if it the exact one you need or not. If so I would trade it for a
"Bean Pot" bowl.

[T. Cotten]

Chris!

I guess yours to be a DLX Type A bowl, but that's just a guess.

Just to be clear: You need a 'beanpot' bowl for a '40 Indian? (Bottom right in attachment).

....Cotten

[Chris Haynes]

You need a 'beanpot' bowl for a '40 Indian? (Bottom right in attachment).

....Cotten

Yup, thats the one, if its brass.

[T. Cotten]

Chris!

No, in most common vernacular, for what that's worth,
the "beanpot" is black lacquered (originally anyway) potmetal, and a 1940-only production, used by only Indian, as far as I know so far... (...and just like my avatar.)

A bronze bowl would have been nickel'd, of course.
Are you speaking of an M21 Linkert bowl?


Back to Dan's concerns, note how the DLX181 bowl in my attachment does not radius inward at the very top, like your example.
Your example does have the *nearly* level bowlcap and gasket surface, making it a Type A bowl, to the best of my studies so far.

...Cotten

[Chris Haynes]

I an certainly no expert of these things. I once saw a beanpot that was brass or bronze. Bare metal and polished. It sure looked good on the Linkert it was attached to. The owner told me it was in Indian beanpot. I have had my eyes open for one ever since.

[T. Cotten]

Chris!

I suspect you saw the bronze Linkert bowl in the center of the attachment.
Its conformity is identical to the other pre-war aluminum Linkert bowls.

Note in my previous attachment how the Indian "beanpot" at the lower right bulges out like... a bean pot.
Its potmetal makes it quite heavy, as well.

....Cotten

[Chris Haynes]

Note in my previous attachment how the Indian "beanpot" at the lower right bulges out like... a bean pot.
....Cotten

That is exactly how it looked, except it was polished brass or bronze. Could it have been a home made casting?

[T. Cotten]

That is exactly how it looked, except it was polished brass or bronze. Could it have been a home made casting?

Chris!

Which did it look like?`The bronze Linkert bowl, or the potmetal "beanpot"?

As far as I know,
all bronze bowls and bodys for both L&L and Schebler were nickel plated until '40. (Shcebler went potmetal in the very early '30s).
And so was most of the small hardware until the middle of '39 for Schebler, and mixed with cad for Linkert through '42, or so.

But I could be wrong.
.....Cotten

[Chris Haynes]

This bowl was on a custom bike, not original. It was definitely the Bean Pot shape and either brass or bronze.

[sswaney]

Schebler HX bowl needed

Not Schebler? http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/harle...item2eb2c80c67

[T. Cotten]

Sswaney!

The bowl in front of the two jugs is the potmetal 1940 Indian Schebler "beanpot".

....Cotten

[Chris Haynes]

Cotten,
Is this the 1940 Indian Beanpot?

[sswaney]

It's hard to say for sure, but judging from the pictures on that ebay listing this bowl appears to be nickle plated brass.