jP!ll
Active Member
Hey there!
Ive been sneaking around the forum for a couple months now, but decided its time to post up a build thread/timeline type thing. it a pretty rough outline, if you want specifics on anything let me know, i have tons of pictures of pretty much everything. let me know what you think!
Picked up the bikes in august and dove in right off the bat. One is a parts bike but i really ended up mushing all the best parts together.
Got all the parts and started breaking everything down. i put the best of the two engines into one and had the head rebuilt by a mechanic in my area.
CLeaned the engine up and started fitting the rear hoop and battery box
got the top end back all clean and dove into the paint. it came out pretty good for a rattle can job ;D
Got everything back together and back in the frame. what a pain! shoulda used the tip in on the side method...
Put enough on to get it started. it fired right up!
Next up were the rear sets, that was a fun little job
The wiring on the other hand... man, let me tell you wiring is not my cup of tea! it is gratifying when its done though. I changed alot of the harness moving different things and changing connections for aftermarket controls gauges etc. also carbs
had to adjust the rear hoop, also found a deal on ebay for some wire wheels and wrapped the harness.
tank came in and i started mocking everything up. also started polishing everything some of the covers.
mocked everything (well most of the stuff anyway) up to see what changes i would have to make to the frame before powder coating
then i took it all apart again.... welded the hoop, took off some tabs bunch of little stuff like that.
here is a time lapse of the entire breakdown and a little more. the camera died partway though
http://s1297.photobucket.com/user/jhpill/media/DTT/moviething_zpsc3ed3418.mp4.html
it should be back from the powder coater friday and ill try and get an update posted at some point.
Ive been sneaking around the forum for a couple months now, but decided its time to post up a build thread/timeline type thing. it a pretty rough outline, if you want specifics on anything let me know, i have tons of pictures of pretty much everything. let me know what you think!
Picked up the bikes in august and dove in right off the bat. One is a parts bike but i really ended up mushing all the best parts together.
Got all the parts and started breaking everything down. i put the best of the two engines into one and had the head rebuilt by a mechanic in my area.
CLeaned the engine up and started fitting the rear hoop and battery box
got the top end back all clean and dove into the paint. it came out pretty good for a rattle can job ;D
Got everything back together and back in the frame. what a pain! shoulda used the tip in on the side method...
Put enough on to get it started. it fired right up!
Next up were the rear sets, that was a fun little job
The wiring on the other hand... man, let me tell you wiring is not my cup of tea! it is gratifying when its done though. I changed alot of the harness moving different things and changing connections for aftermarket controls gauges etc. also carbs
had to adjust the rear hoop, also found a deal on ebay for some wire wheels and wrapped the harness.
tank came in and i started mocking everything up. also started polishing everything some of the covers.
mocked everything (well most of the stuff anyway) up to see what changes i would have to make to the frame before powder coating
then i took it all apart again.... welded the hoop, took off some tabs bunch of little stuff like that.
here is a time lapse of the entire breakdown and a little more. the camera died partway though
http://s1297.photobucket.com/user/jhpill/media/DTT/moviething_zpsc3ed3418.mp4.html
it should be back from the powder coater friday and ill try and get an update posted at some point.
