Hey, just to let you know... I have been working a little today. It's not all fun and games! Just tested a couple circuits, but it really is pretty slow around here today...
Here's a couple shots I thought I'd share. You might have heard about all the flooding we got a couple weeks ago. This is what it kinda looked like one day when I had to run downtown to the courthouse on my lunch break...
My seat showed up!! Had it shipped to the office...
Fast forward a little bit... I didn't get a lot of pics of the reassembly. Sorry 'bout that, I guess I was so excited to get this thing together that I just didn't stop to take pics. You can see here that I built a battery tray out of the old battery box cover. I had to cut it down, then added an aluminum strap on the other side to box it in. I plan to get a short black leather belt made up down at the flea-market to go over & secure the battery. (yeah, I like the flea-market!! Might get me a funnel cake & a sack of boiled peanuts too!!) Haven't got it yet so it's being held in with a velcro strap right now. It ain't going anywhere, but I think the leather belt with a cool buckle will look pretty sick.
You can also kinda see how I boxed in the rear of the frame to hide all the electronical goodies. That's changed a little since I hacked off the rear of the frame some but it's still kinda there... Mostly.
Got the cables & wiring harness all ran and secured. Ended up moving the throttle cable later on... Was not cool when you turn the bars and it revs like you're sitting at a stoplight fixin to smoke a sportster!!! LoL
Luckily the wiring harness was in good shape and un-molested. I'm using everything but the horn so that worked out good!
A peek at one of my mini signals mounted in the old seat mount. How sick is that?? Perfect fit!
Fast forward again. Sorry the pics are getting scarce at this point... Time to mount those new tires! I was gonna take them into town & get it done, but hell, we used to change 'em on dirtbikes when I was a kid. Can't be too hard! Don't pinch the tube & do a lot of reading on how to balance them out... No Problems!! It actually went really smooth. Line up the paint dot on the tire (lightest spot) with the heaviest spot on your wheel. (you read up on balancing... right??) Balance again and use one of the spoke weights you took off, if you need to. I needed one on the front, none on the rear. Awesome! Another project I did myself and saved some green!! Couldn't be happier!!
I guess you'll notice it's painted too. Trust me when I say painting is NOT MY THING!!! I can weld, wrench, swing a hammer, cut, drill, poke, punch and bend, but the mysteries of the perfect paint job is beyond me. I understand what it takes, it's just... I dunno... I guess me and the paint gun don't get along very well. I decided to take a chance and picked up some "industrial" Rust-oleum from Lowes. I knew that if it didn't work out, I would have to take it to be professionally sprayed. The secret is in the preparation and the finishing... OK, got it... I cleaned & sanded, shot the primer, wet sanded & got it looking pretty good. Primer is easy. After a couple days I set everything up in my paint booth again and started shooting the white. 2 thin coats and 2 good wet coats. It set up for a couple more days and was wet sanded with 1000, then 1500, then I rubbed it out by hand with 3M rubbing compound. I gotta say I was really surprised how good it turned out! Now I know it may never hold up, but I'm cool with that. Once again saved me a bunch of cash and it's good enough that it doesn't embarrass me... Whew!!
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