Jules’ favorite bike 1928 101 Scout

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Dave and Eric,
The clutch hub tool is handy, I’ve used it on 3 Sport Scouts and this 101. The hub part is some sort of plastic, I don’t know what the material is, maybe Delrin? The handle is just flat stock and there are 2 thread inserts pushed into the plastic. It looks to be easy enough to make, but I actually bought this at a meet years ago, I think at the time it was like $20 or so. I mean, between time and material I couldn’t make it for that, so done deal.

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It’s been a busy 3 weeks or so, getting stuff ready for Oley and selling my Indian 4 I had my hands full, so now back on the 101. At Oley I did pick up my refurbished magneto…

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So that’ll be ready when the time comes.

Next up I’ll start with something easy, the transmission cover.

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Got everything apart now to clean and reassemble…

[Green Indian]

The Magneto looks great who rebuilt it for you?

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This guy…

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Well, nothings easy. I started going thru the trans tower and didn’t like what I found…

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Got a bit of wear here…

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And the casting is cracked, likely cause the cap was loose and the shifter shaft was wobbling back and forth winds up bell mouthing the journals

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And messing up the bushing

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Lucky for me I have more parts in the stash and I’ll need a different tower, cap and end bushing.

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Here are some pictures of the new assembly after it was cleaned up…

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Much better, nice and snug.

Ready for assembly

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And back together

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For you purists out there yes, the cap should be held on with threaded studs and nuts and I used hex head screws. First off the correct studs use 1/4-24 nuts, and I don’t have too many of those obsolete sized nuts, and I have plenty of 1/4-20 screws. I get it that studs and nuts are better if that part is going to be assembled and disassembled a lot, which I don’t see the cap for the shifter shaft being removed too often. Besides, later Chiefs used screws on the cap so I figured that’ll be fine, it’s not going to be judged or anything. I will use studs and nuts to mount the tower to the trans case, even then I bought new studs 1/4-20 in the case and 1/4-28 for the nuts.

Next up the primary drive…

[pisten-bully]

That looks great Joe! Nice to have a few parts laying around, too. And it's also encouraging to see that Greers is gradually adding to their selection of 101 parts and that they're now able to supply those 1/4-20/1/4-24 studs for the cover.