Recent content by wrench85

What’s this butterfly valve mod you did? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

His stuff is well engineered and tested. Makes it easy. You can make a new header, or cut it into pieces and cut out the inner pipe and weld the outside back up. And holes in the air box would help it breath easier. Definitely better than a cheap pod directly on the carb. Constant velocity carbs...

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Nice, those look great! Thanks for sharing your find on amazon! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

after fighting for weeks i finally got one of the fork caps off of my spares. So rusty.... I had to drill a hole and pound a torx bit into it and twist it out. but my luck is better with the honda parts, the sl350 springs are really close in size, but have thicker and more closely wound...

So I've got a front end off a 1970 honda sl350. The forks are 33mm and it has a double leading shoe drum brake that just so happens to have the same axle size. so I put it on my spare SR250 front end. It fits almost perfectly. It needs some work to make it perfect but its a really close fit...

Its been a bit since I posted an update. I managed to patch the tank with fiberglass, paint it, and line it. It turned out on the ugly side of functional, but i can live with that. I learned quite a bit about working with epoxy and bondo so my next adventure should turn out better. The bike...

Started on the carb and proceded to break it during disassembly... good thing I have a spare! I stripped down the spare and dunked it for a bit. Gonna reassemble and reinstall in a bit.

Good point. Tires are cheap. Might as well change them out too. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well, its been a long 9 years since i dismantled this thing and tried to customize it. Then life got in the way... Decided its been long enough and started working on it again. Right now I'm using my spare frame to return it to stock so i can commute on it while I source materials and parts...

Lol it's hard to work around people's schedules. Should we just do the moto Monday thing? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Meh, it happens... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If it's after 6 I can do weekdays. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Yeah I meant monthly. I don't have the gas money to ride down to salt lake every week. What's early evening for you? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

So what day of the week would be good for people? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk