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Wow! what a fun little thing to ride!!! Fast!! Thanks to Piniongear and the rest of the Ironhead gurus for the answers I needed when I needed them. Work in progress, Gonna strip her down during the winter months and repaint clean, touch up, etc.
great looking scoot. I actually kind of like the purple color. Its a color that was used a lot back in the day on the bikes.
I'm actually tearing mine apart again now to the bare bones to paint. Started painting the front fender this weekend. Motor is gonna start coming out next weekend. Should be a nice project to keep me occupied for the next few months.
Should be a nice project to keep me occupied for the next few months.
As apposed to riding? At least wait till it starts getting cold out. While I can't stop tinkering with it, if it takes longer than a few nights to do, it's on hold till Jan.
Be sure you take a real good look at the rear motor mount. Now would be a good time to change it and spare yourself a lot of potential hassel in the near future.
As apposed to riding? At least wait till it starts getting cold out. While I can't stop tinkering with it, if it takes longer than a few nights to do, it's on hold till Jan.
Riding right now is a bit hard since school started back. I'm the elected one of the family to take the kids to school so the only day I could force my wife to drive the kids to school was on Friday. Just felt like I might as well start ripping apart. Plus I'm painting everything. I'd rather have temps in the 60-70's to paint in rather than in 30-50. You have to remember I'm not as deep south as you are!!!
Originally Posted by pyro
Be sure you take a real good look at the rear motor mount. Now would be a good time to change it and spare yourself a lot of potential hassel in the near future.
Point taken. I plan on actually changing quite a few things on the bike, not just the paint. There have been quite a few things that I have stumbled across from the previous owner that I'm tired of just patching. It's time to finally fix it once and for all. And while I have it apart, I'm going to find a cheap bolt on hard tail and kicker kit and add those. Just trying to save up the money for all of it.
Why a bolt on had tail? So you can remove it later? The weld on hard tail looks so much better in my eyes . Th back bone is more in line. I set my weld on section up and just took it to a muffler shop and they welded it up for me.
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