Recent content by schwartzy1024

Sorry for the late response. I removed ALL wiring and did my own. I drew the wiring layout over and over until i thought I had the most simple and clean way of doing it. If I were to do it over, I would buy about 10 different colors of wires ( I only used 5). It made it tough when trouble...

Thanks! The frame is powder coated with something similar to Oiled Bronze. I had the company tweak it just a little. It has a little gold flek in it. I would have liked to do the entire frame the same as the wheels but they only had enough color to do the wheels.

The frame had a notch cut out of one side when I purchased it. I decided to match sides and reinforced the part under the tank with an extra sheet of metal and welded around the entire thing, so it's not really concerning me.

I did a trick to my petcoc to "trick" it into always giving fuel. Two sides to this. One the bowls will be topped off all the time. Two, you can't shut the fuel off, ever.... As long as the float and float valves are working, you shouldn't have a problem. But you have the potential to have a...

More or less. I have a "main" ground spot on the frame where the motor and 2 other items all ground together.

I got the stator issue figured out. I think there was a slight issue with the ground and where I had the positive connected. I hooked up a 30amp fuse and hooked it directly to the battery, seems to be charging (checked with the volt meter). Just tried to go for a ride but I am still fighting...

Thanks for the help guys. I quickly learned a ton from forums, my clymer manual and other various places to correct a few issues. I found I wasn't getting gas into the carbs so I started there. My petcock wasn't opening from the vacuum on the carb so I corrected that issue and had plenty of fuel...

This is looking great. I just got done with a 81 650. I had a hell of a time getting the jetting just right when i switched to pod filters. Where did you get your air cleaners? I think that would have solved a few issues I had. My post is on here under 650 first build (or something like that)...

I have the wiring finished, all bolts double checked but I'm fighting a fuel problem. I pulled the carbs ( I'm admittedly new to carbs) and took the tops and bottoms off. Everything looked pretty clear but I did spray carb cleaner and used a qtip to get everything really clear. I pulled the...

Well, not sure if i'm lucky or unlucky but i don't have a wife or anyone special in town, so i have a little more time to devote to this girl :) ha. Getting really excited for it. There is a show this weekend I was hoping to get this into but i don't have it registered and not 100% sure I will...

The triple tree clamp turned out perfect. Not a wave in it.

One more with it just about complete. Please ask any questions about what I did or didn't do. I took pictures about every day I worked on it. All told this project has been 5 weeks start to finish and has cost me about 2200$ including buying the bike! This has really been a budget build and...

Another picture from last night. I need to finish the wiring and bolt the seat and tank down.

This was taken just last night. I got the motor to fire, now I need to figure out a fuel delivery problem and finalize all of my wiring.

I got the frame back from powder coating and that night I had 2 friends come over to help me get the motor in. I think it was rolling like this within 2 hours of getting off work!