Thanks Banzai883, I have a whole list of things I still want to do. Now it's just a matter of waiting to have the extra money to buy the parts - air cleaner, exhaust, fuel management, drag bars, blah blah blah....!
Thanks Chris, I wish I had the money to do everything at once, but whatever... All in good time.
I love the way Fred chopped the struts, I never would have thought to do that if I hadn't seen his bike. I can't wait to see his all put back together. He's done some amazing things to that one for sure.
This is what the bike looked like while painting the fender struts. I painted all the way down to the engine mount to make sure the paint matched, on the rear end at least.
So I started building a really basic pulley cover. Getting a 5" outside diameter perfectly round is not that easy.
I laid it out on a piece of 16g steel and used my 4.25 angle grinder to rough it out and used my metal rasp to take it down. Then I used my bench top belt sander for the final passes to round it out.
The inside diameter was drawn on with a socket and roughed out with several drill holes and a Dremel cutoff wheel. I finished shaping with the rasp again.
I hand sanded everything and put on several coats of gloss black paint. I have spacers to hold the sprocket retainer and I'm putting stainless mess behind the inside hole and two additional apposing stainless Allen bolts just for looks.
03-16-2015, 09:47 AM
