Still making some headway on the bike. Widened the rear fender 2" for the 240 tire. Here's TurboGrimace doing a bit of hammering after we tacked it up. Somehow I don't have any finished shots of it, but it turned out pretty good. Put another wider strip inside for strength.
Oh, and TG was too short to work on the side of the fender with my welding table. Check out his "step stool".
With the fender taken care of it was time for the tanks. They didn't sit low enough on the frame (hit the valve cover) so we had to take about 2" off the bottom. Then I made new panels for the bottom and the inside of each tank.
Got them all tacked up. Everything lined up really well. There's a small gap at the lower front corners, but that doesn't matter since I gotta notch the tanks there later to clear the gooseneck. Here's one finished.
Matt decided he needed to carve his initials into the tank with the flap wheel
Here's the finished pair (well, tacked atleast).
I wanna have someone better than me TIG them up so they don't leak. Over the next 2 days I'm gonna get the filler bungs located and tacked up, and the outlets as well, and then drop it off at my buddy Jeff's to be finish welded. I got my top-case back from APE so this week I'll be doing the bearings and the bottom end as well. Guess that's it for now.