Shovelhead Power Unit

[ryan]

I do think it is time to knock the dust off and wake it up from hibernation.

[Tom Wilcock]

I wonder if the builder is the same guy who used to go to the Indian 4 meets in Tiffin Ohio with a restored KJ Henderson he called "The Canadian Henderson". This fellow rode his Panhead and sidecar with his daughter across Northern Canada to Alaska taking the most northerly roads available. Sometimes they travelled on logging trails. His daughter painted scenery along the way. They camped most of the way across the country. They spend one night and had supper at a farm in northern Manitoba with a farmer and his wife. It turns out the farmer had a KJ Henderson years ago and during the war when aluminum scrap drives were taking place he took the bike apart and gave the crankcases to the scrap drive and buried the rest of the pieces. After supper they dug up the Henderson pieces and it was all there except the crankcases and in remarkably good condition. The gas tanks were still there because the farmer did not realize they were aluminum. When the fellow and his daughter returned home from their trip, he retrived the Henderson in Manitoba and found some crankcases and restored the bike. I have pictures him with it at Tiffin. I will look for them. I seem to recall his name was Henry Hardin but I could be wrong on that.
Tom

[JoJo357]

Kindly Thank You Ryan.

*M.A.D.*

[ryan]

Would love to read about the trip Ryan.

https://youtu.be/StwjRsPKMME

*M.A.D.*

The guy I got it from is copying the pictures of the build showing the unit and of the trip. The boat was built as a distraction for the builder and his daughter's family because her son, builder's grandson, sadly passed away at the age of 6 of cancer.

The builder also road his daughter to Alaska so she could paint the mountains, he road a 1950 panhead and she road in the sidecar. When he returned from their trip, he and his son jumped in his truck and he returned to Alaska and cut a four cylinder Henderson out of a fence row, he did finish the restoration on the Henderson. Super neat guy that was a ww2 veteran who sadly passed years ago.

[JoJo357]

It is documented, the build and the trip. It powered a 42 ft long by 12 ft wide, two story paddle wheel houseboat from Ohio to the gulf.
The paddle wheel was 6ft in diameter and 10ft wide. It had a the harley gas tanks bolted to the 2 highest
drilled bracket holes above the origal mounts. The more stare at it, the more I find.

Would love to read about the trip Ryan.

https://youtu.be/StwjRsPKMME

*M.A.D.*

[ryan]

It is documented, the build and the trip. It powered a 42 ft long by 12 ft wide, two story paddle wheel houseboat from Ohio to the gulf.
The paddle wheel was 6ft in diameter and 10ft wide. It had a the harley gas tanks bolted to the 2 highest
drilled bracket holes above the origal mounts. The more stare at it, the more I find.

[chuckthebeatertruck]

Patina, we call it patina.

I dig the creativity.

You may want to consider a loan to the hd museum. If the journey was documented they might just get a kick out of a temp exhibit. Toss in the hd powered aero planes that are around and it could be fun.

[T. Cotten]

"Civilian" M88s would need documentation, Ryan!

Its not fair for me to say that's a hole in the bowl from a pic, but it looks like a hole in the bowl.

Indians still used the Schebler in 1940, and the 1 1/4" models with that needle were the DLX128 and 130, off the top of my head.

And yes, they interchange with the Linkert's, which were made eight blocks away, by one account.

....Cotten

[ryan]

I was told the m88 Linkert was a nos military surplus carb, but my question is how do you tell the difference between the military m88 and the civilian m88?

Thanks Cotten for the carb information. I haven't checked to see if the bowl is tight on not on the rotation. Should the hole in the bowl be plugged or welded? What is a 40 schebler off of?

[T. Cotten]

I knew the manifold would be unique, Ryan!

1 1/4" three-bolt to a late chubble diamond flange might be the rarest.

Your carb was WLA with an added '40 Schebler HS needle; They were lucky the float didn't hang up with the bowl indexed nearly ninety degrees to the body (but the paddleboat probably didn't list sideways like a motorcycle!)

I have no guess as to the purpose of the hole in the bowl, other than a rude'n'crude overflow.

....Cotten
PS: If there's a headstock VIN, motor VIN, and none of the other numbers have been messed with,... Its a motorcycle.

[ryan]

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[ryan]

It has a vent on the kicker cover, the trans top does not have a place for a neutral safety switch, the lever on the top of the frame is the throttle, it has an earlier rocker clutch, the trans tee shaped handle shifter is located on the angle iron on down-legs, has an early upper motor mount for a choke cable.

I forgot to take a picture of the complete unit, I will post a better picture of the L88 intake manifold that is bolted to the stock shovelhead intake. Let me know if more pictures are needed.

[ryan]

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[ryan]

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[ryan]

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