More progress . . .
the simple:
I had planned to use a flush mount tail light as I'd shown in some previous photos but found with the reduced cowl length, my options were a bit limited. Plus I was keen to get something that mounted cleanly on the convex surface of the tail section. I had a pair of repop Willys taillights and chose to one:
The rubber backing does a nice job of sitting flush with the surface and the lens design reminds me of some of the expensive Ruby helmets:
the difficult:The exhaust has been a #$%*. Pipes were mislabeled so there was a bunch of fiddling to figure which header went with which muffler. I have a 73 but the pipes were designed to fit 78 and later exhaust manifolds:
After finding later style exhaust flanges at a salvage yard and cleaning them up, I managed to get the right side pipes to fit ok but spent two days screwing around trying to get pipe #4 to fit since it wasn't clearing the kickstand.
Found out the kickstand on the frame the builder used:
was different than where mine was located:
To his credit, Benji kept asking for a ton of photos to try and figure out why it wouldn't clear, asked for a bunch of measurements I've already given him and offered to fix the problem in his NJ plant. From where I stood, we were looking at a whole new exhaust since everything was symmetrical and everything else already fit:
I knew I was going to lose a center stand but the only real solution, given I'm months behind on this build, was to lose my kickstand. I cut it off and everything fits just nicely now:
Now I'll just get new $100 weld on kickstand.
