Contact David for more information (also about his other CDs which include BSAs and Jeeps).

The covers are o-ring sealed and the pushrod guides have bronze liners with spiral oil grooves. Both guides and covers have been road tested over more than a year with great results. They can be left as is, polished or blasted for that cad plated look. Valve covers fit original pushrod guides. 

Stainless pushrod guides and o-ring valve covers will also be available for 741 and Sport Scout (click top pic to the right of here to see them).

Other cool stainless parts coming in September include the knurled nut for the clutch worm (actually a complete kit with a lipped oil seal), and probably also the worm lever. Clutch and brake rods as well as various plugs etc will also be available in stainless. Stay tuned.

IPE also has '48 Chief-style pinion housings for 741 and other Scouts, allowing bearing races to be line honed (as they should be). To fit the new pinion housings, you have to remove the rim of the race bore in the case, like the factory did on the Chiefs in 1948 (small operation). Use stock 924014 Chief washer and 50250 snap ring. For the full hot setup, use modern pinion oil seal.

The first prototype IPE 45" stroker kits for 741 are ready and are right now being built up for road testing. The kit contains new pinion- and drive shafts + a special thrust washer adapter for the pinion side flywheel. Use any year (ironhead) Sportster flywheel, rod and crankpin assembly, which is easier to find locally than to ship from Denmark. Thrust washers, retaining pins, nuts etc are stock Indian parts, available from any Indian dealer. Apart from rebuilding the rods etc, you have to lathe turn a recess for the thrust washer on the drive side wheel, mount the adapter on the pinion side wheel (countersunk screws and Loctite), and drill/fit thrust washer retaining pins. Full instructions with kits. To get 45" from your 741, cylinders need to be overbored (same size that gives 37" with stock stroke), and pistons will be available too when kits are released for sale after testing -hopefully this winter.

Hot 741 pinion side setup from IPE
 

IPE 45" stroker parts for 741

Connecting rods (shown in VI #10) will accept a modern production insert bearing without the need for bearing shims. H-beam design, larger wrist pin, forged steel, shot peened for stress relief and magnafluxed. Absolute top shelf product. USA made, designed specifically for Indian four. 

New pistons for above rods are forged from virgin aluminum by a premier racing piston manufacturer. Again, purpose made for the Indian four and manufactured specifically for use with Jeff's rods. Jeff says: "Available in one size only... BIG. My intention is to bore to max. size, sleeve cylinders with ductile sleeve, and run big pistons for real performance and much longer service from top ends. These two components (plus bearings, rings and pins) are available as a complete set only because of changes in rod/piston design parameters. They will NOT work as replacements for stock parts. Requires crankshaft grinding to specific size".

Also Jeff now has exact reproduction late model Indian 4 tappet covers and rocker covers available and should have exact reproduction 38-42 intake manifolds ready for Davenport.

I also got a couple of photos of some great looking transmission gears, but didn't get around to asking Jeff for details before he left for Davenport, so you have to ask him yourself or wait for more info in the next VI.

Other new parts for 38-42 Fours: Redesigned oil filters. Beveled gear sets. Valve guides. Valves. Valve springs. Gasket sets.

In the works: CORRECT rocker towers and rocker arms with needle bearings, sleeves, and hardened washers.

Next issue I really hope we can get all our ducks in a row and get that dealer page done. Jeff's dedication to improving the late Indian 4's and the standard of his work is truly an inspiration to everybody in the industry. As a small sample, here's a shot of his new align boring machine, and here's the latest on his tank rebuild setup (Jeff is one of the top rebuilder of Indian tanks in addition to his Indian 4 work): "On the tank front, I now have CNC laser cut mounting brackets for sale or replacement for chiefs/fours. No scouts yet. They are intended to be welded on and do not have rivet or solder holes in them. They are perfect size and shape. Also got some new toys for metal shaping. They are great. I'm able to get the tanks extremely smooth.  References upon request.  They come out super nice." Stay tuned...

Hiatt transmision gears

Hiatt oil filter (neat or what?)

Hiatt align boring machine

Hiatt tank assembly jig

The distributor is designed to take the IPE electronic ignition.  A new batch of these kits is being made right now, and will be available soon from the following sources: Kiwi Indian Parts in USA. Parker Indian in Australia and Paul Hanes in New Zealand.

More and more Indian riders come to believe that electronic ignition is a real improvement, and other electronic ignition kits are available from Oregon Vintage and Rocky's Antique Parts. We hope to be able to bring an article about electronic ignition for Indians in a future issue.

Other new parts from Michael:
Saddle Front Connections 1934-1937 + 1938-1939
Saddle Rear Connections 1934-1937 + 1938-1939
Dispatch Tow Body Hinge Assys.
Dispatch Tow Spring and Body Saddle
741 Generator Bracket
Leaf Spring Pack Wedges
Chief Steel Intake Manifolds with brass rings

Fork and saddle parts are among the new parts from Michael Breeding. More on the New & Coming Parts page of Michael's website

Among the new 101 parts from IPE/Hecker101 are authentic Corbin speedometer drive cables (nickel plated and with ball bearing) and cast iron bodies for the generator drive. Also in stock are nice reproduction Klaxon 11 horns and brackets for frame and handlebars.

IPE is European Distributor for Kiwi Indian Parts, King Clutch, James Gaskets and has quite a few other interesting Indian parts, so you can be pretty sure to find what you need there. If what you need isn't in stock the friendly IPE crew (which is actually only one guy - the editor of the page you are reading here) will go to great lengths to get it for you fast. 

The IPE website will be updated in September (as soon as I get over the VI!) with a bunch of new parts, so stay tuned.

To bring you folks up to date on the Kiwi 84" engine and the cross country ride. I am very pleased to announce that I only had to pull out wrenches to adjust the rear chain. The bike ran faultlessly with not 1 single problem or oil leak. Most of the cruising speed was 65-70 mph over mostly secondary roads however about 1000 miles were freeway miles (in order to make time). Total mileage was almost 6500. All riding was done with out any back up vehicle and I only had 1 riding companion for the first 1000 miles, no music and no windshield. 

I want to give some very special thanks to some folks that made it possible. Ziggy for driving the Kiwi Freightliner to the meets and Ed Glasgow for driving it to the NY road run. Without these guys help it would not have been possible for me to ride all the way across and to the NY road run. Jeff Hiatt and Steve Johnston (Indianapolis) for taking care of an oil change, grease up and general service. Kirby Perkins in Kansas for an oil change. These guys took care of me extremely well.

I have to report that I am extremely impressed with James' new multi layered steel and coated head gaskets. I'm glad that we riders finally now have the most modern head gaskets available to us. I gave them hell at times and they did the job very well. I've also fitted them to our 80" fully loaded sidecar test rig without any problems or settling. I'm impressed James. (I hope we can bring more details of the gaskets in the next VI. Moen)

Our aim is to manufacture an engine that will run from Los Angeles to Springfield Mass (and then even more) without anyone having to put a wrench to it and that includes no tappet adjustments. The tappets have not moved .001". I attribute that to the good alloys used for our cams, followers, pushrods and valve stem stellite tips, etc.

I have to say that the best and most convenient oil change I ever made was I cruised into a resturant for lunch, ordered lunch, asked the waitress for an old 1 gal can. I went to the bike and pulled out my quick drain and let it pee into the can and returned to my table. Once done with lunch I unplugged the quick drain, fitted a new oil filter and filled the oil tank up with oil. I then asked her where I could put the old oil and she replied "just put it over there and I'll take it to the recycle for you after work". I couldn't tip her enough. Good ole Arkansas hospitality, ya just gotta love it. 

See you all at Davenport

Happy riding
Kiwi Mike Tomas

Kiwi engine in all its splendor
 

Steve Adams going coast-to-coast on the Kiwi 84" on the Century Ride Home last year
 

New parts from Kiwi Indian:

Stainless steel control cables made to the orig diameter. Kiwi has also reproduced the nuts to be exactly like the original. Nuts and cables are fully interchangeable with original cables. More info, write info@kiwi-indian.com

IPE is also working on something similar for 1936-39 rigid frame Chiefs, and already has the frame and forks (and forks for 40-44 Chiefs). It will probably be a while yet before a complete rolling chassis is ready.