Sunday, June 27, 2010

More progress

New OEM Honda shock bushings from ebay for 7 bucks...



Installed...



I chose to do the assembly of the frame internals as the next phase of the build. I had to get a gas tank off ebay since the original was long since gone. Fortunately, the original tanks for these bikes were made of plastic. I say fortunately because I have derusted and resealed enough tanks in my life to never care for doing another. All it required was a wash out with solvent and a new grommet for the neck...



Gas tank installed with nice powdercoated bracket. Notice the battery box is now in place too. On the battery box, I tried a new technique which seems to work well. I used paint for the basecoat color then clear powdercoat on top of that for durability.




Nice chrome little grab handle installed too. Honda originally marketed these bikes as being designed for transport in a car trunk. For this reason, the bikes came with folding handlebars and a lift handle to help you load it.



New wiring harness to avoid any headaches down the road...



New main grommet for the wiring where it exits the frame in the front...



Overall picture that shows the gas tank and bracket, battery box and new battery, wiring, and seat hinge all installed...



Forks installed with a nice tapered roller bearing conversion kit. Much better than original ball bearings and actually just as cheap by the time you refurbish the original ones which were bad anyway...



I started polishing the upper triple tree. Still more polishing to go, but it's looking good so far...




Remember this dirty thing ?







All rebuilt...




3 comments:

  1. Wow so did the safer chemicals do that or did you resort to tried and true. Michael

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  2. The Pine sol was an excellent degreaser, but I still went ahead and soaked the parts in the old school carb dip and even had to lightly bead blast them to get some scale off. I think next time I will try some CLR (calcium, lime, rust) remover. I've been reading some promising reports about that.

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  3. dude, how you can not make anything but money in your shop with the work you do. unthinkable, for lack of a better way to put it. I wish you lived in my town I'll tell ya. I'm going nuts trying to get a 6 lug on my 81 c-10 to 66 gmc conversion and you just cruise thru this fab stuff like its breathing. if your costs are more than your profits then the government owes you. if you can buy and build your biz and not make any extra cash you can develop a huge state of the art shop, and the gov will owe you. you gotta spend it to keep it, simple as that. and of course screw the freebies. you don't have to be licensed if you word it properly.look into proprietorship, its just a word that means you do your own thing for money. and from what I can see your craftsmanship outdoes any factory or so called licensed tech. its reality man you are an artist and you should be a rich man. i wish I could pay someone like you to solve some of my mechanical problems.
    Lance from White Rock BC Canada

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