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After doing my chores this morning i was allowed in the shed. Finished making the A frames and welded on, found some 1/4 plate for the topbar gussets and made a cross bar for extra support. Ive put pins both sides so the bar can be fitted either side. Next was to drill 4 1/2" holes in the topbar, just got to make 4 pins now or put nuts and bolts though it. The topbar can be lifted up another 8" if i need extra height. And some photos.

I can raise the hydraulic lift and stand on that

Looks good, Chris. But if one question. How will you reach to raise the top bar?

There was no way the exhaust system I had built would fit back on with a transfer box and a dive shaft in the way, the only part that fits is the big bore pipe that runs down the side of the engine through the frame! So a bit of a re-make is needed, I started at the front after slicing off the bits that fit into the engine.. The only tube I have enoug of is a bit bigger than I had been using, so how to go from something small to the bigger blue bit size! Find a bit of tube that's slightly bigger than the small bit but slightly smaller than the big blue bit and make four long-ish cuts in it. A hose clip squeezes it down to size. Welded on and extra tube trimmed off. Welds cleaned back. A bit of hammer work soon had the other end a bit wider. Welded on to the big bore pipe. Lot's of careful welding later had the gaps filled up. Test fitted to the engine, one side cleaned up. Now I have these made I can work out how the next part of the system.... But that's something for Friday.. Oh... the slight change of plan... With the UJ's etc removed I found there is just enough space to fit this er... final drive? 90'd drive thingy from the very same Honda Silverwing that gave it's engine up for Why Not all those years ago! I will need to fit a chain n sprocket to get the power from the bike gearbox into the 90'd drive thingy which has a 5 to 1 ratio (I can "gear" that ratio out), and yes it will spin the right way And to finish off a couple of photos of the unit I had taken to put it on Fleabay.. Quite glad I didn't get around to listing it

Wasn't all the right size but i'm lucky enough to have an electric hacksaw.

Good job Chris. Bit of luck you had all that "correct size" metal lying around.

You or MadTrax Norm? And onwards with the story, another slight change of plan coming up shortly.. The outter bearing needs something strong to bolt on to, so I dug out a bit of 8mm plate and set to on the lathe. It will fit somewhere here, to make life more interesting the plate needs to be removable or I won't be able to get the transfer box back out the frame! Before I started on the mountings I thought it would be wise to tidy up this bit of frame first. Mostly chopped out.. That looks better. Plate and bearing set back in the frame a tad, it fit's rather well.. Plenty of UJ clearance by the transfer box. Before I can start mounting the plate I need to make sure both shafts are parallel to each other..

Hi Jeff welcome to the forum. If your Wheelhorse is a 877 it may be a 1967, if it's a 1965 it would have a five in the number

Somehow I don't think I'd be wanting to do a strip down.