I have been busy this weekend, using a frame that was loaned to me, I have made a template for the centre stand lugs missing on the frame, just need to get them cut out from suitable thickness steel. Also missing from the frame was the front seat fixing tube and pin, the two left hand toolbox fixings, the tank centre bolt fixing, saddle and all, as well as the bracket that drops down from the top frame tube that take the tank rubbers and of course the side stand bracket. I have made the drop down top tube bracket from two pieces and drilled all the holes in them as per the original, also the tank fixing saddle just as the original, these two parts I will get welded or brazed by a professional, not sure which would be best,the front seat fixing was an easy make using the lathe to turn to the right size, drill the hole to take the pin part and drilling the hole for the locking bolt, this I also welded into position the side stand is one of the Indian universal ones which I have reworked so I can actually take the swivel bolt out (it was a rivet) to leave the brackets on the frame but take the stand part off, the top part of the bracket I have welded in place, now the stand will not move resulting in the bike falling on the ground. the two lugs for the toolbox on the left side of the frame down tube, was turned on the lathe and drilled and tapped to take the studs, then welded to the frame using the loan frame to get the exact measurement for location.
Then I ground the end of the swinging arm tube off and using the air disc cutter, (very thin cutting disc) I cut the tube between the frame and the s/a tube and removed the swinging arm, I have a new tube and a spare swinging arm to go back in.
I then pulled the squashed in plates in front of the top suspension bolts, where the oil tank and tool box bolts go through, some one had been heavy handed tightening those bolts up. using a thick flat square washer and a bolt with an inside washer, worked a treat, I wonder if a spacer would be a prudent addition for these two fixings?
I need to make some sort of location template to get these centre stand lugs in the exact position as with no stand it has to be spot on, job for Monday after the morning physio at the gym, its a bugger getting old