OK back to the bike, I've been picking/puttering away and have a few things sorted out.
Jugs are at shop getting bored so should have them back by Feb and can attack the motor in the Spring.
I couldn't get the piston out of the caliper so bought a functioning used one, came with decent pads and much cleaner master than the one that came with bike. Hooked that all up, still need to get SS brake lines as the hoses are a bit cracked.
Modded tach/speedo bracket to run just single guage. I'm just going to plug the tach rather than change over to a 650 tach. I just picked up a 650 cam which I'll be dropping in the motor and thus won't be able to run a 550 tach/tach-gear. Anyway just drilled out bracket to accept speedo and decided not to chop it any farther in case I want to run a tach in the future. Added a couple rivet head screws to cover up the holes.
Drilled out the bars to run the wires internally, and got the controls and new grips mounted up.
Cleaned up headlight bucket and threw some paint on, managed that indoors without disturbing/ alerting the gf, ninja painting.
Got a rear tire, tube and rim strip as Xmas present from the gf. Got that mounted up and redid the rear brakes with new shoes, cleaned up and freed up the chain adjusters and got it all mounted up.
Finally got the seat mocked up.
Slow but sure it's becoming a motorcycle again.
Respect
CD