Couple more updates now that I've had some time to get back to this old girl. Nice to have something else to do other than thinkin’ on how to stop cam seals from leaking.
Took the handlebar switches off this bike MONTHS!!! ago and dropped them off at
Diablo Cycle who did up switch decals, now available
here.
The delay in getting them back together is on me not them, I have been somewhat distracted with some other clutching, sparkly, and leaky issues on another bike.
These were pretty badly corroded.
So a little scuff, a little paint, new decals, now that looks better. Repainted the M/C and clutch perch while I was at it.
Then figured I do a little small parts polishin’.
Bob recently posted on his thread how he did his cases and bits. He’s busy using them for shaving mirrors right now I expect. There's sure more than one way to skin a cat. When I'm doing up large pieces like engine cases I sand (probably obsessively) before buffing, but when I'm doing small bits like valve covers, I just use my small parts cleanin’ and polishin’ rigs . Here's an old pic from a couple years ago.
The valve covers were the last parts to clean up and polish.
I’m out of regular paint stripper so I just used some Aircraft Paint Stripper.
Then 4 different compounds and finally Autosol using cloth wheels.
Because the switches were off I haven’t been able to fire this bike up (without doing a bunch of jumper wiring) since last Sept. and that’s been bothering me. Don’t like it to sit that long without running. Jim inspired me to get off my butt and get sumthin’ done so I got her back together today.
Well, doesn’t sound too bad for not runnin’ for a year. Needs some tuning, but after she ran for a few minutes she settled down and the idle smoothed out.
We’ll keep working down the list.
