got a few things done tonight.
shocks are put back together with the clevis on the bottom instead of the eye
also cut the corners of the seat pan to follow the curves of the rear hoop section.
before
after
So I’m a huge fucking idiot and have mental issues and a majorly distorted view of priorities. Instead of finishing my current projects, I went in on three more. LOL. Pirite, Checko, and myself ran out to LeRoy NY last night and snapped up a wicked deal for three yamaha triples…two xs750’s and one xs850. YAY MOAR PROJECTS! (help me, I’m fucked)
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Yay! 9 vintage motorcycles between 2 garages! Haha
garage was packed with people and motorcycles today. me, my brother alan, nick, luke, roommate ryan and jesse. alan is new to working on things, but he stated tinkering with his xs850 with ryan and jesse. me and nick cleaned up a few welds and finished a few more on the frame. ill be dropping it off for blasting in the next day or two.
also did a bit of work to the seat pan. the hole is drilled for the flush mount tail light. did a little grinding and did a coat of duraglass. nick went BEAST MODE sanding the tail section for a solid half hr with no break haha. anyway on to the pics
first coat of duraglass
after sanding (still has a few low spots)
Ugh I need to swing by one of these days!
Those pictures make the tail look like a different shape than it is in real life. Wierd how I get in the zone sometimes and just keep going on something lol.
Yea I noticed that after I posted them. The first sanded pic makes the seat look twisted lol
for starters today, dropped the frame off to get blasted and primed. should be done early next week. in the meantime ill keep hammering away on the seat pan for now.
went to nick’s to mess with his bike and work on my seat pan there.
another coat of duraglass (ran out of duraglass after this coat, will get more. turned the empty can and turned it in to an ashtray… “duraglashtray”)
OOPS!
little glue fixed the crack right up
after sanding
have hopefully only one more coat of filler on the tail section and then on to the rest of the seat pan
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come on by, check the new house out/all the projects goin on around here
The tail still looks twisted in all of those.
Otherwise, looks good. I would never have the patience for body work.
the part up by the tank isn’t cut evenly, so one side is quite a bit higher than the other and is making the whole thing look twisted…and the left side of the tail is a little lower than the right up near where it rolls over the edge to the butt-stop part of the sitting portion (if that description makes sense lol)
Yeah, it does. Keep it up!
We’re going to have snow tomorrow possibly, so im itching to get mine on the road. lol
What nick said! Haha, yea still gotta do final trimming on the bottom edge as well
moar duraglas!
bit of sanding, lows marked
front where it meets the tank, filed down a bit. still a lower on the right side
im hoping to do one more duraglas layer on the “butt stop” part of the tail section, and a layer on the part that meets the tank, and the one edge thats low. sand all that down to have the final shape, then do a finial skim coat over the whole thing before sealing it
did a bit of sanding the other night. should be able to get it all squared away with one skim coat of light body filler. hoping to have the seat in primer tomorrow.
trying to get the seat and tank painted by the weekend.
frame should be back by tuesday. plans to paint the frame and swing arm (gloss black) also by the weekend.
cut the steering lock off the lower tree. gotta smooth that out tomorrow, along with clean up the lower fork tubes.
ordered a matching kenda challenger tire to the front. my plan is to hopefully have the bike rollin by the weekend. then on to carb work and clean up the motor and get that installed. other than that its clean up/paint lots parts here and there and get everything back together little by little.
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cleaned up the lower forks, before primer/paint.
one down
two down
painted
gonna try and pick up new dust covers tomorrow, along with new tubes for my tires. also have a rear tire on order. should be here thursday. then gotta get bearings yet.
cleaned up the tripple trees as well and painted them
(thats a piece of exhaust i had slid it into to hold it for paint)
lots of sanding on the seat pan. put a few heavy coats of filler primer on. still have a few little pinholes to address.
:tup:
frames back from blaster, he didnt end up priming it. saved myself $25 and primed it myself. swing arm is also in primer. lookin like sunday ill be hauling it all to my dads for paint.
seat pan is in its finial stage of primer before paint. i have a buddy making vinyl die cut decals for the tank. he said he will have them ready by the weekend. might be able to paint the tank/seat sunday as well!
parts list update:
F&R tubes- picked up from empire cycle
steering bearings (all balls racing tapered bearings)-ordered from empire cycle. should be here fri/sat
fork dust covers-ordered from hamburg honda. should be here by fri/sat
new rear tire arrives tomorrow.
monday it should be a roller once again!
tires!
went to dads today to paint the frame and swing arm. didnt get around to painting the tank and seat yet. still waiting on picking up the decals.
whipped up little brackets for my speedo mount
lookin’ good whiteboy!