Sides and Back

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Well got some of the tins back, my buddy Spyug has been working on the bits, and after I dropped off my rims for powder coating, I stopped by his place to grab what he has finished up so far for me, and I do like what he has done, fixed up the bits, added nubs where they were missing, sanded everything down, gave it all a coat of primer......

WAY TO GO !!!!!!

I almost got the front cowling, but after closer inspection of his own work he did not like a few spots, so he held that back to do a bit more sanding and finessing.....

So I will and can only show off what I was given so far....

I dropped of my tank, front fender and solo seat cover, he is going to give them a once over as well, good buddies are hard to come by, and Spyug is a keeper for sure....Thanks buddy...and maybe these will get you cheered up a bit...

well as always a few pictures....


The metal tabs were off, or the new plastic tabs were, but a bend in the metal tabs and all is OK...

















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Build shots

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Not much was done, actually nothing was done, so I just cleaned up around the bike, and decided to take a few glamor shots of how the build is going thus far...

Enjoy, just a few pics...
















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I fixed the fuel sending unit...YAY

hopefully it will last a while, and I do have to see if it shows correctly, but full and empty it does show, so maybe I am lucky...













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Painting_2

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And to finish off the evening, I decided to paint the last few items, even did the underside of the gas tank....just for fun...

a few pics...
















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Fuel Sending Unit

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Well this is not good.....the fuel sending unit is damaged, it won't give me the amount of fuel in the tank, it gets caught up on the wires that are pulled and stretched so it gets stuck about the half way mark, and it seems the petcock is buggered up as well.....

Not good....











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Clean_Gas_Tank

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Well I washed down the rims tonight, leaving them to dry, and possibly try to paint them tomorrow, we shall see...

So I had some paint stripper left over, and decided to tackle the gas tank, and get rid of what is left of the PO's attempt at cleaning off the old paint. Well I applied the stuff waited about 10 minutes and just started wiping the stuff off, took a sponge sanding block, and a few passes of it and the wire wheel and the thing almost looks good enough to leave as is...LOL

Well not really but, it's lost all of it's paint, most of the rust, and is ready to go to Spyug's place to get a coat of primer, and some fixing of the small dings that are in it....

And as always here are a few pictures of tonight's progress....


















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cleaning the rim 2

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Well spent a bit more time with the rims tonight, a bit more stripper, some sanding, wire wheel, and a dremel cut off wheel....

and I have clean rims, no tires on anymore, and ready for painting...












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cleaning the rim

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Spent a bit of time tonight with the front rim, poured on the paint stripper, let it do it's thing, and wow, the rims are actually turning out nice, this stuff is eating away at what ever is left on the rim, I did sand blast them, but there is still some white and black paint left, now it's just the aluminum....

looking good....









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