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Are you using the 2 part bondo body filler, or are you using the spot putty that comes in a tube? It looks to me like you're using spot filler for large areas and should be using the 2 part filler. Spot putty is really only good for very thin skim coats and pinholes. If you are using the 2 part...

Still working on the wheels. The final drive gearbox is all ready to be reassembled, I filed down the exposed edges of the bearing carrier that connects the driveshaft to the hub and painted it gloss black Moto Guzzi used stainless steel spokes and brass nipples on these bikes which is just...

That makes sense. Someone probably snagged the VIN to use for a better bike. I was very confused when I couldn't find a stamped number on the frame. I'm pretty pumped about both, I'll take the original rack and the rear seat from the orange one, probably keep the engine on a shelf and part out...

I'm pretty tickled about it. For $250, it turns over, came with a new battery and key.

First I bought this for pretty cheap. Found out it has no numbers (VIN tag missing and no number stamped on frame) A few days later I found this one grabbed it. Got less than $500 between the two and will end up parting out the orange one and keeping a few things on a shelf for spares...

Harvested the donor wheels this week for the rims and a good front hub. Got the hubs blasted and powdered coated in “Extreme chrome”. I thought about polishing but I don’t have the time nor patience for that, plus the powder will be much easier to maintain. Started sanding down one of the...

Nice work. What's your process?

Project has been on hold a bit due to a flooded basement which lead to some renovation projects around the house… Before all that I went up to visit the Guzzi Doc and grabbed a new set of wheels to replace the junk rims and cracked front hub. Got a few other miscellaneous bits as well while I...

Those are usually found on the inside of oil seals.

Yep, just from experience. I built a 2 into 1 for the CB360 and it was badly rusted when I pulled the wrap off after only a year or two so I always try to talk folks out of it lol. That’s rad though, I need to update that build thread. I’m a big VW fan along with a couple others on here. Had an...

Awesome, I'll be watching.

Looks good. I would advise against the exhaust wrap as the pipes will rust underneath, even painted.

Last week I took the previously-blasted-then-re-rusted fenders down from the loft and used the nice weather to get them blasted. They don’t fit in the cabinet so outside with some good PPE does the trick. I blast, etch to kill any remaining rust, and in this case I’m applying filler directly...

Looks about as crusty as the CL77 I picked up last summer, I'm in.

Check out Tarozzi rearsets. Very well made.

Having used a lot of POR-15 on the Bus, I no longer use it and I have had very mixed results with it from bonding great to flaking right off properly prepared metal (to their standards). I prefer media blasting (I have my frames powder coated these days), but have done many in Ruseoleum...

I don't have any recs for Austin, but when I lived in Houston Harold's Automotive Machine Shop in Richmond TX did a top notch job on the top end of my BMW. For a $50 bike it would be worth shelling out the cash to have the valves and seats done correctly.

It should, from what research I did most bushings for car/motorcycle suspension are between 70-90a hardness. The one bushing that came with the shock was definitely way softer than these so I'm pretty confident, but only putting some real miles on the bike will tell.

A few months ago I picked up a pair of used Progressive shocks on eBay for a deal. When they came in, the bushings were missing and I was not able to find a suitable replacement off the shelf. Having run into the same problem before, I went ahead and took some measurements and 3d modeled a...

Thanks bud!