With the hub repaired and all the parts painted black it’s time to lace up the wheels. The old spoke nipples were seized up on the spokes so I needed to cut them out. A freak set of stainless steel spokes from Walker machine and ready to start. I have never laced motorcycle wheels before but I have done bicycles in the past. I took lots of pics of the old wheels so I had lots of reference material. With the 101 association rebuild manual in hand I started lacing. I did have to take them back apart a few times but in the end got them laced and trued. Here are some pics of the old wheels and the new along with some of the lacing.

So the front hub has a cracked flange. I didn’t think it could be repaired so I ordered a reproduction hub from overseas. Just for the hell of it I gave the old hub to my welder and to my surprise he gave it back to me all welded up and fixed!  I am much happier with using the original part.

Continuing on with getting lots of pieces and parts cleaned and painted. I had to take the ammeter apart. The needle got stuck. It spins on a small rod with pins that sit in small holes somehow it got dislodged and I used my micro tweezers to get the pins back in the holes. Works great now. The nickel is all warn off but I think I’m just going to polish the brass and clear coat it. I like the brass and I’m not doing a 100 point restoration so as long as it looks good I’m ok with it. Also it would be very easy for me to take it off the bike and nickel plate it later if I wanted.

As for the hubs, wow!!!!  After 35 years I don’t think grease can be called grease anymore. It would be a better description to call it glue at this point. Anyway, with the old grease removed the parts look good.

Sent the frame, fork, rims and a bunch of small bits off to the blaster.

after getting the bike running I decided to do a full tear down and rebuild. I wanted to make sure everything was sound and working the way it is supposed to. It also gives me the opportunity to blast the old paint and give the bike its new skin.

Leaking gas did a number on the bottom of the tank.

My first thoughts were to just clean it up and get it running again. After a good scrubbing, crank case and tranny flush, new plugs and points cleaning it was time to kick her over. To my surprise it started on the third kick!

We got in pretty late but here it is in its new home.

Loaded up on the trailer and the trip from CT to NC is ready to go.

The drive used a little more gas and took a little longer then without the trailer but went without a hitch.

I am rebuilding my dads 1931 Indian 101 Scout. It sat in storage for 35 years!  I will document the process here in this blog. I started a few months ago so the first posts should come fast as I need to catch up. Here is how she looked when I uncovered her. My dad redid the bike in the late 60’s. That is when it got the blue on blue paint. It’s not original but looks pretty good. I found that the bike was originally red so I am thinking I’m going to go with red this time.