While the world is frantically searching for toilet paper and bottled water I decided to work on my Servi Car. I have been very busy since the last update. Work has kept me out of the garage quite a bit. Also the weather has been awful here in Central Alabama. Mostly rain 4 to 5 days per week. The temps have been very mild and that is greatly appreciated. The pond on my property is about to overflow its banks!
Eva and I also celebrated our 28th anniversary with a weekend trip to Homewood, AL. It’s only 45 minutes away from home but I really enjoyed getting away for a couple of days. We stayed in the SOHO district and were able to walk to restaurants, antique shops and the local brewery. It was a great weekend for the two of us.
On to the Servi. I’ve wired the bike for the most part. Everything except the tail lights, and so far everything checks out. I need to give the cut out relay some attention to make sure it is in adjustment, but that can wait for now. I found that for 1947 the speedometer had an upgrade from previous years to focus the speedo light more to the left side where the rider needed it. I was also told that the lamp socket for 1947 is really hard to find. After looking online I found Mr. Perry Ruiter in Canada. Perry had also been down the 1947 route and decided to make a batch of lamps. He duplicated an original from a friend and made a limited supply. Perry dropped one in the mail to me the following week. The images below belong to Mr. Perry Ruiter.
Here are some pics during wiring.
I’ve also been working on my exhaust system. I will say that so far this has been one of the more time and beer consuming aspects of the project so far. I had gotten a set of head pipes and an older re-pop muffler from Steve Lemay while visiting him at his shop last year. Steve had told me to get ready to spend some time on getting it all mounted. Well he was correct. I made numerous calls to SMC member Dorsey Uptain. Dorsey has sent me several photos of what he has found and what he had to do. I’ve learned that re-pop mufflers have always been short and everyone has to fabricate a bracket to make up the difference. So I did.
Oh, and the crash bar. Thats it in the picture, under my truck and tractor.
