Last winter, we carefully took the bike part and just cleaned everything. This bike is in good condition that all we had to do to the frame and fenders is just wash it, used some rubbing compound, and waxed it. The paint on the tins still looks good. The engine turns over, and has a lot of compression. Just had some stains though from the old gas. All we had to do was just clean it, buff the covers and painted the cylinder and head. The carburator just needed to be cleaned. Some of the chrome was falling apart, but most of them just need some polishing. The only thing really needed the attention was the tank, wheels, battery box cover and primary cover. I was surprised that the chrome on silencers were still good. I didn't really want to make this bike too perfect. I want it to look aged and used so people would see that it's really a classic bike.
Had some free time last weekend so i decided to work on this project bike. (ohh yeah i worked on our trixie project too. Check it out in our site.) So many projects so little time. I got the tank and rims back from the chromer and taped up to surface where i dont want painted.
Before getting the tank and rims painted, I had to sand the chrome off so the paint would stick on the surface. I got the tank painted gold/champagne, just like the original color. I did some research and found out that back then, they would also paint the center of the rims same color to match the tank, and have the same stripes too.
Pretty much everything is done on this bike. After i got the tank back, we put the bike together. Ohh i removed the plastic wire loom off of the electrical harness. It looked too modern. I took the whole harness apart, remove the loom and used some shrink tubes and used tape. All that is left now is to get a 6V battery, bend a 1.5 stainless pipes for the headers and then stick a fork in it and its done.
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Benjie
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