Re: [Amc-list] Steering box changes, early 60s to later

[JOE FULTON <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I loaned my copy of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
Maintenance to my sons.   I gotta get it back.  It's
time for another read.

Dad (I mean Joe Fulton
Salinas, CA


--- Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Kelly Hardie wrote:
> 
> > You just reminded me of a favorite passage in Zen
> and the Art of
> > Motorcycle Maintenance, when Phaedrus cuts up an
> aluminum beer can for
> > shim stock to secure the handlebars on his buddy's
> BMW, and Phaedrus'
> > phriend phreaks out  cause he sees the material
> for what it IS (an old
> > Coors can) rather than for what it DOES...
> 
> ...which neatly sums up the difference between
> people who make
> things, and people who don't.
> 
> 
> >
> > Kelly
> >
> > Tom Jennings wrote:
> >> On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Did/does someone not make shims? I'd swear I'd
> seen them somewhere.
> >>> I had a buddy who made his for a Ford F-250 gear
> swap. He used thin steel stock wrapped around the
> stud and cranked it down tight. It never wore out in
> the several years I knew of it being setup that way.
> >>>
> >>
> >> In fact, the more I think of it, .010 shim stock
> carefully
> >> wrapped without wrinkling, cut for zero overlap
> on the final
> >> turn, then trimmed, would probably be 100% safe
> and wouldn't
> >> change torque. There would be some "air space"
> but since it's
> >> a taper that would compress out just fine. It'd
> be disposable
> >> basically. Somewhat kludgey but a safe, reliable
> and repeatable
> >> kludge.
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