Saturday 28 October

This was a pretty busy day, Estle had been missing in action for most of the month, the cold and wet weather is not good for either of us especially out in the garage. Remember both of us are old guys and we really don't care to be cold and damp…

I started out with doing an oil change and brake fluid swap for a friend and was just about done when Estle arrived. As always he was glad to meet new people and Laurie was very interested in the Shovelhead's restoration. Besides a who wouldn't like talking to good looking red head…

After I completed the service work on Laurie's bike and she had left we got down to business. Estle surprised me with a specialized tool he had bought to compress the valve springs and we could now reassemble the heads. I have a feeling he was getting a little put off with me and our slow progress. And I guess to some degree he was right to be; but he never said it or even acted that way. But then we are friends and sometimes I do need a kick in the butt to get started.

Once we got the heads reassembled we masked them up and I got right to painting them. They are sitting now drying and waiting to go on the cylinders. If I can get all of the work done by Friday we are going to try to set the engine in the frame on Saturday.

You can hear the paint drying...	Time to pull the tape.	Estle's new valve spring compressor.
Valves in, paint done; time to mount the heads on the cyclinders..	Don't let the pictures fool you that black is deep.	I couldn't help myself I had to pop on a rocker box and set the heads on the cylinders to see how its going to look...

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