I forgot to ask this, the other problem I have is when I dumped the bike so long ago, it bent the hell out of the left front foot peg. Any suggestions or recommendations on a place or type to replace one or both front pegs with?

So far everything seems like it is coming together. Still waiting on a tank though (should have it soon).

Thanks everyone so far for all your help, its gotten me in the right direction, and a list of about 25 things to do/check/buy before putting her back on the road.

sluggo wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:04:


How cheep  im intersted 8)

sluggo is right and a hell of a guy!

RW, I'll try that, it'll be bent forward instead of back and not have to buy a new one for a bit, should work just fine!

I finally got a tank ordered!! Handlebars are on the way thanks to sluggo! And the Clymers manual is on the way as well.

With luck, I'll be well on the way to resurrecting her within a week or two.

You mean someone asked???  

darn the bad luck. I need to let mine rot for years and see if I can get some freebies. Hey isn't that a sin? 8)

lol... its not like I intentionally let her rot, haven't had the money to even think about it until just recently (a new job 5 months ago, well paying at that).

Wasn't offended at all  

But serious question.

I took the petc0ck out of the old tank to look it over. The filter has a nasty brown color now, and looking at the little filter screen, there is the tear in one part of the mesh, but no additional tears (for which I'm happy).

Despite the discoloration, will it be safe to continue using this one, or is there a place to actually buy just the darned filter? (Last time I checked 8 years ago, they told me I had to buy a whole new unit, that just the filter wasn't available).

And yes, I am going to put an in-line filter in whether I keep the original petc0ck filter or not.

That bothers me only because in the Clymers manual, it makes it sound like you can buy the filter and replace it seperately.