Shak's Speed Shop

02/05/2021

Scott’s 56 getting a SBC and a 4 speed automatic.

01/29/2021

Screw you covid. Back in the shop!

12/29/2020

89 sportster 1200. Bought it for $1900. Was only running on one cylinder. Bad spark plug. Motor is kicking. Now to knock the ugly off of it and get it out the door. Blood is a good start.

10/08/2020

40 year old sportster gets a new primary chain for her birthday.

08/14/2020

Getting there. Rides nice. Front fork rebuild, lower springs, lower shocks and a new front master cylinder and we’re off.

07/07/2020

The mighty 1977 trail 70 is back on action. (Actually, I put gas in it and inflated the tires😋) one of the selling points was that you could lock down the fuel tank, collapse the handlebars, and put it in the trunk of your car. Nice to take it around the yard. The guy in the ad is a dweeb.

07/06/2020

The worst carburetor I ever took apart. Green jelly is not a horsepower ingredient. 1 down, 3 to go.

05/09/2020

Finally! Just about ready to go to Pennsylvania! I fought with the aftermarket speedometer for almost two years (And three different speedometers, as I thought I had a bad speedometer twice.) Finally figured out that the SPARKPLUGS and WIRES were non resistor and the electrical interference was playing havoc with the LCD screen on the speedometer. 🤓

If I had some old guy looking over my shoulder telling me "Well there's your problem, your speedometer isn't working because you have the wrong sparkplugs.", I probably would have chased him off of my property.

02/22/2020

01/05/2020

I don’t think I’ve ever seen such bad CV axles. Jen’s 95 4Runner. Her shop in Washington state wanted $1K for replacement. Axles cost $140 for both. About 5 hours labor.

12/08/2019

Geez. Was driving this around the hood every so often.

09/03/2019

So, the oil passage plug is only accessible underneath the left head on a small block Chevy. Make damn sure it’s sealed good before you put the motor together or you’ll spend 17 hours getting to it and putting everything back together to fix the oil leak. Just saying.