Just wondering what everyone is doing about the kickstand tabs on the frame.
I was at the Tenino Swap Meet (sponsored by our AMCA Chapter) this weekend, and I saw no less than four set of cases that had been damaged on the primary flange at one time of another by the frame tab breaking.
Of course, Harley solved that problem in the mid-sixties when they started to weld the tab to the driver support mount.
I talked to one fellow a couple years ago that had his tab break on his fully restored XLCH while it was sitting in his garage (damaging his cases, not to mention other damage as a result of the fall).
So, my question for all your restorers out their is this--do you weld the kick stand tab to the driver support mount or do you leave it original? I talked to Scott Lange about this once, and he said he left his original, but it seems to me a very risky business, especially considering that our frames in most cases are over sixty years old.