True, those are '28-'31 A bone seamed rear rods, and for the length I'll need, these will weld up just fine. Like John Wayne said: "A man's gotta do, what a man's gotta do...."
The Holy Grail of radius rods are the '46-'48's. But, try and find a good pair firstoff, and then have your nitro pills handy when you hear the price.
Irish Rich is the owner of Shamrock Fabrication/Irish Rich Custom Cycles, a "no frills" custom motorcycle and fabrication shop. Rich has been involved with custom motorcycles and hot rods for over 44 years, and is a member of the Sinners, out of Southern California. Rich and his motorcycles have appeared in Street Chopper, DicE Magazine, The Horse, Easyriders, IronWorks, S&S Performance Times, Bigtwin, Show Class Magazine, Jesse James' documentary "The History Of The Chopper", One World Studios' "The Harbortown Bobber", and Joyrides Art Co.-"The Photography of Mark Kawakami". He also currently writes, and has written tech articles and feature stories for most of the custom motorcycle publications, and wrote an ongoing column for the first 16 issues of Greasy Kulture Magazine.
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The often mentioned, little seen Ford radius rods.
Can we assume your post titled "It's hard to find", was leading up to this?
I wondered how many have lent themselves to this type of service.
Look forward to seeing it done.
Hey rich. I just did one 34over it's pretty large!'I have extra set of radius rods if anyone needs em.
except those are Model A i believe, they got beefier in '32 and up, changed every few years after
True, those are '28-'31 A bone seamed rear rods, and for the length I'll need, these will weld up just fine. Like John Wayne said: "A man's gotta do, what a man's gotta do...."
The Holy Grail of radius rods are the '46-'48's. But, try and find a good pair firstoff, and then have your nitro pills handy when you hear the price.
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