OK! finally been doing some work on this thing again. lets see..
got the clip-ons, tried to put them on the top of the fork tubes above the top triple tree, but the cables got in the way of the gauges. Now they're underneath the top triple which makes the riding position quite low. oh well, thats where they fit and it looks cool.
Speaking of the gauges, I cut off the mounting studs and drilled holes where they were and mounted them underneath the top triple to make them match up with the lowered headlight and bring everything closer together. looks ok, but the tach cable doesnt like bending in that new lowered way. cant seem to find a way to reroute it so ill have to see if it works.
Threw the throttle cables on, routing wasnt too bad but there is a lot of resistance in the movement and it doesnt snap shut, or close at all for that matter. I'll take them off again, throw some chain lube down them and see if i can find a slightly straighter way to route them. not too worried about it.
tucked up all the wiring under the seat pan and mounted the capacitor under the rear of the tank. its the perfect spot. Ive been using black hockey tape to hide wires by taping them to frame tubes. with the flat black paint you can barely notice it, and when you do it looks cool. win/win/win. I also had to splice in the left hand control from my cb360 because i couldnt find the original one that came off the bike. i looked for 2 days for it and cleaned my whole garage in the process.. nothing. I hate cutting off factory connectors if i dont have to, but i had to. spliced it all in, doesnt match the factory right hand side switch, but its not terribly out of place. 20 minutes after i finished that i found the original one. fuck me.
I have to swap out the rear hub with another one I happen to have. its so corroded that the brakes dont move. Turns out i also lost the little nut/end piece that goes on the the brake linkage and acts as the adjustment at the rear hub. anybody have one? if not ill just get a nylock nut from lowe's.
The chain had like 20 broken links so i used a chain from a friends kz750 after he switched to a colored one. worked out well i thought.
The caliper has squeezed the pads together for some reason (i probably pulled the lever) and now i cant get it to slip over the rotor. I assume I can take the outside pad off and use a c-clamp to open up the gap. gatta get around to that soon.
I finally took the starter off. a punch and some light taps with a 10# sledge and it came right out. the starter sprocket and chain were removed a while ago. made a little block off plate out of some really thing sheet aluminum i had laying around, attached it with rtv and then sprayed the area engine color. looks better.
I have to move the front turns/running lights lower because theyre in the way of using the levers right now. have to get a couple clamps from a friend who says he lost them. i know where things are in his garage more than he does so we'll see how "lost" they are.
oh yeah, and the kick start lever is stripped out. corroded the splines right off. need one of those too, now.
some pics for ya guys: