Test Drives

This is the Sunbeam after it's test drive.  Everything is working fine, except the old carburetor, but he can deal with it.  I see that other vehicles have shift quadrants, but not like this one.

The day before the shift quadrant was installed in the Sunbeam S7, he put a star hub, which also came in a box in the mail, in the Harley 45.  Luckily, the sun was out both days and both bikes got a test drive.

Last week there was also a day of sun, so all these got trips to the gas station for a top up.

Here's the other side of the Sunbeam after it's successful test ride.  Test drive.  Well, the bike didn't drive itself!

And here's another sun/shade shot of the 45 flathead.  I sure like the way it looks without bags, even if it does have the mounting brackets mucking up the line of the rear fender.

1947 Sunbeam S7 Quadrant Installed

To me, this looks like the head of a strange golf club, but I know now that it's called a quadrant.  HH ordered parts from Stewart Engineering and due to the magic of magic, it arrived with all it's friends, and they're all now in the old Sunbeam mentioned in the title.  He started disassembly yesterday, and today finished reassembly with new parts installed.  I think the least fun part is scraping off all the old gasket.  He cleaned up the old broken and worn quadrant and gave it to me.  Right now it's holding pens on the kitchen table, which we don't often use for dining.

I knew I'd need a reminder, so I took a photo of his parts list.

Thank goodness for Stewart Engineering!  And some very helpful youtube videos.  He should be very pleased with himself.  It's a good thing to have lots of old things because they usually can provide him with something to do on a rainy day.

On the other hand, this window gasket is waiting to be installed on a very warm sunny day.