Dads Sport Scout

[Tom Lovejoy]

very interesting, thanks for the sharing. I love Sport Scouts

[FLFD7]

Some quick posts this morning of some little things that were done. The flywheels were a bit rusty, but a couple of grades of sandpaper later they looked much better:

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[FLFD7]

Also I like knocking off some quick little jobs. Decided to get the front fender looking good, so I took the bumper, tip and light off and gave it to my brother to clean up, he wanted to pitch in on this project. I gave the fender tip a little TLC:

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Back in the day somebody must have snapped one of the mounting studs off the back and brazed another on on, but the heat discolored the chrome on that side. Just adds to the patina I guess.

[FLFD7]

Here are some before and after on the front fender, thanks to my twin brother Jim for the elbow grease.

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He’s going to try a little compound and then a coat of wax and they’ll be looking great. Thanks Jim!

I guess the previous owners didn’t bother with the front fender trim strips, just put down a white pin stripe and called it a day (c’mon man). That’s the way my father rode it, so I’ll leave it that way. And I’ll put the ugly bumper back on too (I really dislike that thing).

[PaulCDF]

Nice work. Very nice.

[FLFD7]

A quick couple posts on the fender light

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Some homemade cardboard gaskets (!?)

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[FLFD7]

A little wire brush and rattle can and it looks 100% better.

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I really like this Art Deco style light, more so then the later Indian head light.

[pisten-bully]

That looks great! If you ever find an original for sale they usually command high dollar prices.

[JoJo357]

Really enjoying the progress on the ole' Gal... Can't wait to see the end result of your effort FLFD7--Thanks.

*M.A.D.*

[FLFD7]

The buddy seat that was on this bike is pretty roached, so I decided to put on a different seat. I didn’t care for the bracket system they had to accommodate the bigger seat (2 sets of springs)

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so I went with a solo saddle. I picked this seat up at a meet some time ago, and thought it looked beat up enough to work on this bike.

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Little did I realize that the studs on the base of the seat are metric (?!), so it must be a repop from Europe? I didn’t have any 8mm nuts for the back studs, but luckily Home Depot did. I had my brother clean up and paint the seat. The 41 Scout used the full seat tee, but this repop seat studs are pretty short so I used the short front bracket and attached the springs directly to the base. This is the set up I have on my 39 Scout. I used the springs that came on the bike, but they are not the correct barrel springs.

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Some leather cleaner and we’re good to go.

[FLFD7]

I wanted to finish up the front fender to get it out of the way. The now cleaned up fender tip and fender light went in easy enough, now to wrestle with the bumper (have I mentioned I hate this thing, so fugly)

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This bumper must have been pieced together back in the day, the outside buttons have an inner part and the outer shell that the bumper slides thru. But there were only 2 of these inner parts, one each side in the front. Something must have happened to the others and the solution was to drill and tap the bumper rod and use a screw from inside the fender. The outer shells are just sheet metal, so to prevent them from being crushed (all of them are split anyway) they used what appears to be leather washers between the rod and the fender. You can see some of these petrified parts in the above picture. I had a sheet of rubber I decided to use instead of leather, and decided to double that up with a thin stainless washer in between as the rubber will compress more then the leather did. So after polishing up the parts a bit time to reassemble.

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Of course the thing fought me the whole way. The bar and the whole fender for that matter were tweaked, there is a pretty big scrape on the front left of the bumper so I don’t know if the bike was down or just hit something. I had to enlarge the holes in the fender from 1/4” to 5/16” and even then I had to egg out a few holes with a file to get it to fit. It didn’t help that the tapped hole in the bumper were not exactly on center. But after more then a few curse words I got it to work.

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Did I mention I hate the fugly bumper? Well, that’s how my father rode it so it stays on.

[FLFD7]

I got the repaired welded up transmission case back so now to finish the repair so I can get the trans back together.

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I used an inner primary to mark the new hole location.

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Got the hole marked, time to break out the #7 tap drill.

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Notice the high tech depth gage for drilling the hole. Hey, I’m no machinist, but I make it work.

[FLFD7]

Hole drilled, let’s tap it. Got the tap in the drill press and started the hole, no pictures I don’t have four hands.

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Check the new holes with the inner primary again. Not the right screws, but we just checking things out.

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Everything lines up, the screws tighten right up, the repair looks good (you’ll never see it anyway). Next up one last cleaning and then gears go back in.

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We making progress.

[clae]

things are looking good. coming along nice

[FLFD7]

Thanks clae

Time to reassemble the trans, after one last cleaning

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ooohhh....shiny

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I think it’s all here, some new seals too.

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ok, that’s done. Gonna work on the motor plates next then I can get the bottom end together.