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Title: Longshot
Post by: Heo on April 05, 2013, 03:17:28 PM

This is a longshot but does anyone in here
know where i can buy a piston for an Indian
Prince

Title: Re: Longshot
Post by: machoneman on April 05, 2013, 05:02:22 PM

If you've already scoured the Internet, you've likely found little as that is a rare beast. Firms like JE Pistons, probably Diamond and other custom piston makers would do so, although they would not be cheap. Either fill out a form or send the old piston as a sample.

http://www.jepistons.com/PDFs/OrderInfo/custompistons-orderform.pdf

Title: Re: Longshot
Post by: Heo on April 06, 2013, 01:32:22 AM

Yes i know of that possibility but some of them
has a minimum order of 4pistons or more
and not cheap each
The bore i need is 2.795 and 1.7 comp height
flat top.There is many european small cars
with that bore but to low comp height
I can make a new longer rod but i rather
dont have to

Title: Re: Longshot
Post by: machoneman on April 06, 2013, 08:56:31 AM

Here?

http://www.indianpartseurope.com/forsale.html

Title: Re: Longshot
Post by: Heo on April 06, 2013, 01:22:16 PM

No pistons just crank pinns.
The Prince was made for a few
years only so not many was sold
so not much aftermarket support
for them.
Mine have kind of a interesting history.
Sold new in France probably confiscated
by the Germans during the war
Stolen in Finland from the Germans one night by
the man my father bought it from in the 60s :o :o

He and a friend crossed the Finnish Swedish border
on skiis  with a sledge one night with no moon
and waited outside the German Camp till there was no
sign of movement and went in to the camp and grabbed
the first motorcycle  put it in the sledge and got
moving towards Sweden faster than a speedig bullet
I Think the guys on guard duty that night had some
questions to answer the next morning

I Gues you have to have some hair on your chest
to steal a motorcycles from a buch of well armed
Nazis in the midle  of a war  8) 8)

Title: Re: Longshot
Post by: jayb on April 06, 2013, 02:28:50 PM

Wow, that is a really cool story...

Title: Re: Longshot
Post by: Heo on April 06, 2013, 03:49:12 PM

Yes i would doubt the truth  if i
didnt know how the people along
the border was in those Days
There was two options to make
your living
You smugled from Finland to Sweden
back and forth  or worked
for the Customs
not seldom resulting i gunfights when
the two sides met each others
All were expirienced hunters used to
stay out in the forest for Days in minus
30 40 degrees Celsius
In the real World they make Rambo look
like a litle school girl

Title: Re: Longshot
Post by: machoneman on April 09, 2013, 08:05:29 AM

Yes, that is an incredible story, for sure!