Hey guys, jumped back over to 81' daily rider, she's still a little rough looking and I kind of prefer that, just abusing her until a full rebuild once the 80' is done. BUT, I was looking at the seat the other day and decided I would treat her to a diet. So I went at fitting a counter balance seat I had ordered for the 80'. It was a fun little upgrade and came out pretty cool!
Started by shaving all the junk off the rear rail.
I then frenched in a rear tail light box.
I also used the front of the original rear fender, welded on a fabbed up seat pan, then used the front piece of a front fender welded onto the rear of the pan for a very well fitting fender.
I then moulded in some run/turn/stop signal lights and fabbed up a rear shock mount plate holder, lights for the plate will be ran through the swingarm at a later date, I have to do bronze bushings soon anyway.
Did a little powder coating, as I work on this bike more in the future I will continue to coat parts this metallic black color, may look a tad off at first as these are the only pieces this color right now, but it will tie together in the future.
Wired everything up and set the seat! I think she looks a lot better! Obviously the tank paint needs work, I'm toying around we with powder coating this as well, the front shocks are getting a full rebuild with lowering blocks soon, those will be coated at that time as well. Cheers!