Very nice Pete! You’ve got a lot of balls in the air old buddy! I like the progress being made on Betty!
Very nice Pete! You’ve got a lot of balls in the air old buddy! I like the progress being made on Betty!
Yes, it's possible. Just use the long length of all-thread double nutted through both ears trick. The $200 Special suffered from the same malady when I got it. Good as new now .....
You guys make this so difficult, lol. I'll bet you even enjoy a little Chinese water torture too from time to time, lol. I'm afraid I don't have a link or any pics (I'll get some some day, I promise), but the concept is pretty simple. Remove the headlight bucket and measure it's width where it fits between the ears. Now, get a length of all-thread a few inches longer than that, long enough to reach through both ears and stick out on the outer sides of them, at least enough to get a nut and washer on. Double nut each end through each ear, one nut and washer on the outside of the ear, one nut and washer on the inside. Set the distance, outside to outside, on the inner nuts and washers to the width you just measured on your bucket. Now, tighten the outer nuts. This will bend the ears back into shape, align them, and make them parallel to one another. No hammers, blocks of wood, pounding, bending, swearing, and whatever else you've been doing needed, lol.
I put in a block of wood to hold the ears out and used some all-thread to pull 'em back into parallel with each other and correct distance apart for the bucket.interesting - do you a linky as to how you actually did the straightening 5T?
Pete
I’m gonna try it the easy way first and then break out the RCN language. They are pretty cattywompus as the saying goes....
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48 spoke 18" rear !