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If your looking for parts online I bought some goods off of sirius consolidated inc. Good prices. fast shipping. They had a decent amount of parts in stock for my bike, I don't know about yours. A lot of the stuff I got from sirius my local dealers didn't have. Might be worth a look...

Hmmm well thanks for the input guys. I do know there are some plastic polishes like the novus system. I can just slightly feel the scratch shown with my fingernail so that novus system won't do. Any thoughts on using a headlight restoring polish? A neighbor told me to use toothpaste but I was a...

Hey guys, maybe I have just been up for too long now but I can't seem to find much on repairing gauges. Sonreir is making me some awesome new gauge faces but I can't go putting them in crappy looking housings. First: The face on my tach housing is scratched. Can I polish this out or repair...

I didn't want to just sit around while I was waiting for help with the welding. I tried to keep busy. After recent frustrations I thought I would do some idiot proof work. Here is some cosmetic work.. Shake and spay facelift for the controls. Flat black came out nice. Prepped with...

Even with a good scraper and multiple applications I just found the paint stripper was not doing a very good job. On top of that I started noticing a lot of filler. I reverted back to sanding. I started sanding the entire tank to get down to bare metal. When I was done there was a mountain of...

In the meantime, I thought I would prep my tank and side panels for paint. First step was to strip the old paint. I usually just scuff the paint sufficiently to get good adhesion but I thought I would try a chemical stripper this time round. Turned out to be a TERRIBLE IDEA Tank and...

This is the frame I cut to reinforce the seat I had made out of galvanized sheet. The extra work made me a bit mad at first but not so much anymore. I figure I can reuse it to make a really good fibreglass seat in the future if I want. The yellow and red lines indicate the frame rails Now I...

Wow I just got the over 30 day posting warning. Pathetic. Well I have been working just slowly over the last month. Created A lot of unnecessary work for myself, so that was enjoyable. Here come the updates.

A few issues... The seat needs reinforcement. The gauge of sheet metal is not strong enough to completely support my weight and deflects slightly. Its not terrible I just need to transfer my weight to the frame better in the center. I am going to use some bar steel to make a skeleton for the...

I didn't have all the mounting figured out but I did have a few ideas. To attach the rear cowl to the frame I would make a mounting bracket that would seat the cowl on the frame. The mounting bracket would connect at the bum stop section of the cowl and bolt to the old passenger rail mounts...

With the basic shapes cut out I had to form the pieces to the desired shape. I used a straight edge, "C" clamps, locking pliers and some convincing for the straight bends. For the rear cowl I wanted to create a replica of the original so I bent the metal around the stock cowl to mimic...

While my wheels were at the shop I got started on the fabrication of my seat and rear cowl. I transfered my cardboard template to sheet metal. The metal was thinner than I would have liked but I got it for free so I can't complain.

Ideally there would be something with 4 contact points but even the tools I have for similar bicycle hubs and angle grinder lock nuts only have 2. What are they going to charge you for machining down a socket?

What kind of tool did you go with? Was it something like a variable pin spanner? http://www.otctools.com/products/variable_pin_spanner_wrench Tools are always an investment especially when you have as many bikes as you do, thats quite the list of projects! I am not planning to remove those...

I didn't know 350s had a retainer on the front too. What a pain. Threading the retainer, screwing in bolts and torque-ing it out was O.K. .... I seen articles where people made the tool using a piece of pvc pipe. At the time I thought that would take too long but with the amount of time I spent...

I pulled off the old rubber with this great video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Pfp2Z9k0n0 My local shop wouldn't order anything but basically stock tires so I started looking online for something with a more aggressive, updated tread design. My actual rim size is 3.00-18 front and 3.50-18...

With all the parts coming in, I had a lot to keep me busy. Changing wheel bearings: The old front wheel bearings came out very easy. I used a drift punch to move the interior spacer and remove the bearings. The rear bearings were much more difficult to remove. This was in large part due to...

To clarify the hardware shown was from a local shop in Calgary. I just brought in all my old hardware and upgraded to all new buttonhead fasteners. Blackfoot Industrial Fasteners. Knowledgable staff. Good prices. I ordered the sprockets from cycle-re-cycle. I changed the gearing ratio based on...

I got some goodies in the mail recently! I got fork seals, dust caps, front, rear, and steering stem bearings, chain, petcock gasket and brakes from www.siriusconinc.com .They sell a lot of stuff on Ebay but you can order directly off their website. For Canadians they are a pretty good choice...

I have a new appreciation for the guys who find the time not just to work on their bike, but to show that work online by updating their thread. Especially when the weather is nice. I did some polishing the other week on most of the metal parts I pulled off. I used 600 wet sandpaper then black...