Marissa the foot pegs look nice, just be careful with the raised keeper on the end. That could keep you from sliding your foot off the peg when necessary like cornering if needed or coming to a stop. Having to lift your foot off of the peg is not a natural movement. Perhaps study off road or racing foot peg shapes. it would be heartbreaking to hear that you dropped your bike coming to a stop after ALL the great work and time you have invested. Just a thought.
Thanks for the pointer, jgger! I took some photos of the finished footpeg to show its height. I think the end cap is mostly going to function as just aesthetics, based on how my foot is going to line up with it. With a relaxed foot, my shoe will sit on top of it instead of being "stuck" between the end cap and the clutch cover. Still, I may file them down further.
Also, I am a BIG idiot! Today, I cut the yellow/red line to the kill switch to see if I could test it with potentially another switch or something. I ended up trying to test the wire directly on my clip on where I sanded it down to see if it worked. No dice. Okay, what about the clip on mount on the fork? Still no dice. The fork itself? Bingo!
It was at that point that I realized, the whole clip on bars were clear coated. Even if I sanded off a part where I thought it needed ground on the handlebar switch, it still was not able to ground to the rest of the chassis because there's clear coat on the mount contact area. Ugh, duh. Why didn't I think of this before?!
So I technically just thrashed a salvageable handlebar switch. Oh well, it's a part of the learning experience.
So with the battery now fully charged, and a strong starting "switch", I actually got it to run. And it was so awesome.
It did however leak out some oil, scary but wasn't that fast or bad. Pulled off the left engine side cover and found the bottom oil pump housing bolt was a tad loose. I remember not torquing them down like crazy in fear of stripping or seizing, so it made sense. Think I may convert these to hex or hex flange bolts instead of Philips. Philips seems silly to me to keep here, also may add blue loctite so this won't be something to worry about, haha. But it's torqued down now and doesn't seem to leak anymore.
Idle needs to be higher I think based on the sound, but it revved strong and sounded quite healthy. I'm super excited to see what progress I make next.
Here's updates on the brake reservoir. The cap was not cast today because the entire city of New Haven lost power and we had to evacuate school. Thankfully with some time at home I was able to work on the bike!
