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I went up by Tulsa yesterday to look at an XJ. I ended up buying an exhaust system.... with a bike attached. lol I couldn't pass up the exhaust. For those of you who saw the thread yesterday, (That somehow got deleted all together??) the bike was laying on it's side on a trailer. I figured they had moved it from the barn like the thread stated.. but it had apparently been on it's side for a long (LONG) time. They said it was running about a year ago. Not really believing that, but it doesn't matter.
Anyway.. here's the most recent acquisition. There wasn't a seat with it.
A REALLY nice surprise, was the this Vetter fairing is in really REALLY good shape... and black, like the bike it will go on.
Yup... I think these pipes will polish up just fine...
And the mufflers look nearly new.
The reason I said that I doubted the bike had run just last year.. besides the fact that the tag was last current in 1999, see if you can tell which side the bike was laying on with the tank facing the sun. Look close.. it's kind of tough to tell..
I'm just not thinking the sun can do that to a tank in a year, but the inside looks pretty good.
There is one small dent in the tank I hope to get out without bondo so I can get it powder coated at some point.
The miles....
And the biggest disappointment.. The hard bags. The one that it was laying on (Right side) is pretty tore up and ill-fitting now. Plus.. having Honda parts on it is almost as bad as Harley parts, isn't it??
So.. all in all, I'm pretty happy with it. I now have a titled frame to get powder coated and get another bike on the road... plus some extra parts. I haven't checked if the TCI works yet, but will soon. I have a spare one of those anyway. I don't figure I got hurt too bad for $250. The motor spins nice and free, but doesn't seem to have any compression to speak of. Possibly just because there's absolutely no oil in the cylinders at the rings, or the valves were stuck open from corrosion and I bent a few turning it over at the crank.. lol.
Tod
Anyway.. here's the most recent acquisition. There wasn't a seat with it.
A REALLY nice surprise, was the this Vetter fairing is in really REALLY good shape... and black, like the bike it will go on.
Yup... I think these pipes will polish up just fine...
And the mufflers look nearly new.
The reason I said that I doubted the bike had run just last year.. besides the fact that the tag was last current in 1999, see if you can tell which side the bike was laying on with the tank facing the sun. Look close.. it's kind of tough to tell..
I'm just not thinking the sun can do that to a tank in a year, but the inside looks pretty good.
There is one small dent in the tank I hope to get out without bondo so I can get it powder coated at some point.
The miles....
And the biggest disappointment.. The hard bags. The one that it was laying on (Right side) is pretty tore up and ill-fitting now. Plus.. having Honda parts on it is almost as bad as Harley parts, isn't it??
So.. all in all, I'm pretty happy with it. I now have a titled frame to get powder coated and get another bike on the road... plus some extra parts. I haven't checked if the TCI works yet, but will soon. I have a spare one of those anyway. I don't figure I got hurt too bad for $250. The motor spins nice and free, but doesn't seem to have any compression to speak of. Possibly just because there's absolutely no oil in the cylinders at the rings, or the valves were stuck open from corrosion and I bent a few turning it over at the crank.. lol.
Tod
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