Here we go again

Okay. I have the next round of purchases figured out. To be bought with the next paycheck are:

1. Harbor Freight welder, some wire and some practice materials.
   
2. A used scroll saw and some extra blades.
   
3. Carb rebuild kits and spark plugs for the GS.
4. Sisal and Canton buffing wheels.
5. Chemical gloves
6. 09913-14511 (Fuel gauge set for float adjustments)
7. 09900-20803 (tappet gauge)
8. Suzuki fork oil #15
9. Fork dust and oil seals
10. Head cover gasket
11. Breather cover gasket
12. Gasket sealant
    
13. New grips
14. Oh yeah.....and a space heater

Once I've got all that in my hands, I can get to the fun stuff--

On the Pariah:

1. Break down the front and rear wheels.
2. Break down front forks.
3. Remove engine side covers.
   
4. Start polishing bits.
5. Teach myself how to weld.

On the GS (No name yet):

1. Drain and pull the gas tank.
   
2. Check air filters. If they're not factory, replace them with factory (may involve ordering airbox).
3. Tune up (Rebuild the carbs and inspect boots, replace spark plugs, change oil filter along with primary, secondary and final drive oil, flush brake fluid).
4. Replace head cover and breather cover gaskets.
   
5. Mask off everything but the engine.
6. Paint the case, cylinders and heads black.
7. Polish side covers.
8. Sand outside of cooling fins.
9. Rebuild front forks.
10. Replace mirrors and grips.
11. Check valve clearances.
    

All this should be starting sometime between the twentieth and Christmas.

To hell with it....

.....I'm buying a welder and teaching myself. That shouldn't take hardly any time at all....

Hopefully I'll finish the bike some time in 2011. I'm no longer looking at a spring finish. It's possible, but highly unlikely. Thank fucking Christ for the GS. I'd go nuts with absolutely nothing to ride in the spring.

Fuckity fuck fuck fuck.

Well, sadly I have nothing new to report, aside from the fact that there is nothing new to report. I've been waiting on my wife's dad for the welding portions, as I'm not setup to weld. He's become very busy with other projects and hasn't had any time. Subsequently, I'm looking for a local welder to help me out, but I also want to learn some things, so yeah....it may take a couple of weeks to find someone.

On the bright side, I picked up an '82 GS1100 in good shape last week. I've already put 150 miles on it and it's fantastic. Power for days, smooth delivery and it's comfortable to ride. In short, I like it. I'd still like to get something more modern, and perhaps with a warranty, but for now this will do.

How it looked when I got it.

Holy Windshield, Batman!

Removed the windshield and replaced the handlebars with some euro superbike bars I had. This is how she sits now. I've since also removed the grab bar.




Almost a proper man-cave.

Appetizer

After hours of grinding, everything is finally smoothed out now. Some time in the next few days, I'll take the bike over to the FIL's for welding and fabrication of some bits. After quite a few hours of cutting and grinding, I was starting to feel a little bummed about not being able to see a lot in the way of results, so I decided to take a look at those new clip ons and rear sets on the bike.

As I'm not set up to weld, I cut some pieces of wood to length then drilled two small holes in each (for some wire) and one larger hole in each (for the rear sets). I ran some wire through the wood then attached the wood to the frame with the rearsets already mounted to get an idea of how everything will look.

I like.


Notes: I'll have to modify the steering stops a bit. The bare clip-ons do not make contact with the tank, but the controls will. I've a couple ideas on how to do this already. I'll discuss them with Don (the FIL). Also, the top of the tree needs something. It either needs those useless tabs ground off, or it needs some type of plate over them. I already planned on running the neutral and signal indicators in the risers holes, but some type of plate could be added into that plan quite easily.


A quick idea, but more of a jumping off point.....


Could add some sections of rubber tubing as spacers, or could bend the plate. Not sure how to handle yet.

Going to fab some type of mount that will hold the ignition under the tank using the horn mounts, and will mount the horn elsewhere - perhaps under the back of the headlight bucket?

Bike porn v2.0

Thanks, Roc City.

In the near future....

1. Finish grinding the frame smooth.
2. Seat pan (Try and save/modify the old one or make new one)
3. Fab mounting plates for the rear sets
4. Fab battery box above swingarm and tray under seat for electrics.
5. Mockup
   
6. Disassemble triple tree
7. Disassemble wheels
8. Soda blast small parts
9. Get everything ready for powder

That should do it for the next couple of weeks. Updates will be posted in the mean time.

Pipeburn

Did a bit more grinding on the frame this weekend, but had a lot going on so I didn't accomplish as much as I'd like.

Since I don't have anything worth while, check out Pipeburn.

Pseudo-update

Squeezed in another few hours on the bike today......

All the desired tabs have been removed from the frame, and I'm about 50% done grinding everything smooth. So, yeah, pretty much the same as yesterday.

Don't forget to check out the new Tarozzis.

Weight loss...

Already a vast improvement...

Bike porn.....