Slow and steady indeed, life tends to get in the way of motorcycle projects sometimes, but I have made some more progress. Skip finished my cylinder head with new valve seats, guides, springs, valves and Time Serts for spark plug holes and rocker covers. It is beautiful with perfect machining and the valve lift was dead on.
After buying, stripping, prepping, painting and polishing a used oil tank, I realized it was not the correct one for a 66 so I sold it on the forum and put in way too much time restoring the original chrome covered oil tank and side cover. After running it through the parts jet at the local auto parts store, I sanding off the the chrome and began the long process of filling pits, sanding, prepping, priming, painting and polishing another tank for this bike. I am please with results and am glad I bought the expensive two part catalyzed primer.
The tank took forever to clean, prep, paint and polish and though I am pleased with it, there are two minor issues with my paint job, but it will get me down the road. The badges are the high quality, made in the UK versions, but the holes are just a bit off, so I may try to fix them or re-chrome and repaint the original badges. New petcocks, grid rack, cap, knee pads and style strip.
Getting down to the wire and I still need to polish the primary cover, finish wiring the bike, install the chain and chain guard, exhaust system, cables, and the carbs. I am going to try to burn a vacation day this week to install the last bits, set the tappets and electronic ignition timing, add fluids, and hope to have her running by the weekend. Onwards...