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Well I’m getting some things done on the bike, maybe not much for a real mechanic, but I’m getting there. I finally found a good 140 mph speedometer. The rim was a little marked up and faded so I sanded it in prep to paint it and found a nice silver underneath....so I just wet sanded and polished them both. I think they came out pretty nice. Oh yeah and I ordered two new gaskets from partzilla because they looked so good I didn’t want to trash things up with crappy gaskets.....I ended up spending more for gaskets than I did on my gauges! Lol. Got all my electronics sorted out and working.....when I put the battery in and turned the key I blew 3 out of four fuses on my entirety replaced electrical system! It took a few weeks wanting to blow the thing up but I finally found my problems. Fortunately it was all failed electronics and a grounded out wire but it took checking just about everything to figure out.....I was so close to ripping into the wire harness because I was sure I must have botched up the installation of my new fuse box. Good thing I didn’t, no problems there.
My petcocks and octopus are all polished and rebuilt, new fuel lines all over, carbs are in and it’s purring along at a nice just over 1000 rpm idle. The valves sound great. I took a video but I haven’t figured out how to get my new photo host to post it yet.....says my file is not supported?
Now back to trying to get a seat I love......let’s see, I think I’m on attempt #3 but I’m not moving forward until I’m really happy with it. I have the small seat pan from my wreck...(little eBay cafe racer seat)..I’m going to try and mount the stock foam and cover on it and make a thinner, shorter version of a 79 special seat before I give up and order another Harley solo seat like the orange bomber had on it. Once I finally put an end to my seat saga I can finish the rear end and get this thing done! All it needs is my new mufflers welded on and this seat area cleaned up and I should be good to go!
I haven’t put my new tank on yet and won’t until I’m totally finished, but I did take a pic. Oh yeah I got some new foam grips and a headlight too.
I also ended up trying a drive shaft boot from a maxim 700 cuz it was like new and only $7....it seemed to fit just fine but was a little longer than the stock unit...like one more rib. Anyway I tore the swing arm apart again and put that on too.
My petcocks and octopus are all polished and rebuilt, new fuel lines all over, carbs are in and it’s purring along at a nice just over 1000 rpm idle. The valves sound great. I took a video but I haven’t figured out how to get my new photo host to post it yet.....says my file is not supported?
Now back to trying to get a seat I love......let’s see, I think I’m on attempt #3 but I’m not moving forward until I’m really happy with it. I have the small seat pan from my wreck...(little eBay cafe racer seat)..I’m going to try and mount the stock foam and cover on it and make a thinner, shorter version of a 79 special seat before I give up and order another Harley solo seat like the orange bomber had on it. Once I finally put an end to my seat saga I can finish the rear end and get this thing done! All it needs is my new mufflers welded on and this seat area cleaned up and I should be good to go!
I haven’t put my new tank on yet and won’t until I’m totally finished, but I did take a pic. Oh yeah I got some new foam grips and a headlight too.
I also ended up trying a drive shaft boot from a maxim 700 cuz it was like new and only $7....it seemed to fit just fine but was a little longer than the stock unit...like one more rib. Anyway I tore the swing arm apart again and put that on too.
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