Today was a mixed bag, I did some work and some fun stuff, with varying degrees of success.
I installed new plugs. When I pulled the old plugs they were a slightly different range than recommended. They were NGK BP6ES instead of BP7ES and they looked rather dark and sooty. I will run the correct ones for a while and check them later.
Then I tried a shortcut to polishing the right side engine cover, I had such success with the paint stripper and Blue Magic on my rear wheel that I tried it on the engine cover.
I don't know why but my paint stripper never raised so much as a wrinkle after four hours of soak time. But it did manage to make the clear coat look WORSE! So I will have to get more aggressive on it. Another day.
Then I did some fun stuff, I have decided to live with the existing paint job for a while, it really doesn't look bad, the only thing that bothers me is the lettering, it is just pre cut vinyl and it has started to shrink and edges have started to lift. So I am just going to replace it with new, but I changed it up a little to look more like the letter style that Yamaha uses. I custom ordered these online and they are surprisingly inexpensive. I think they came out pretty good. Here are some before and after shots.
So another weekend shot in the ass, I am getting closer to firing this thing up. ( I sure hope it runs) Later,
Bob