jkluesner
Been Around the Block
Hello all!
Got my new purchase shipped to me last week from Indiana (barn find). The shipping guy delivered the bike to the grocery store parking lot across the street and to no surprise the battery was dead.... so I pushed it to my place, which sucked as there is a big hill . A little charge on the battery and the next day, vroooom, the 599 cc started right up with both electric and kick-start. Nothing like priming those old BING carbs (ticklers) to get it running. I will probably replace these with Mikini carbs, as I hear good things. This is what it looked and sounded like 6 days ago: http://www.youtube.com/v/7zNczklITNA?hl=en&fs=1 (note: this is after removing the front fender, fairing and a few other parts)
Took her for a spin and then started tearing her down.
Below is the current state of the bike. The guy who owned it before me clearly masked (tried to at least) off the bike and painted things in place. The result, painted rubber parts (rings, etc) that are completely toast and over-spray everywhere. On a positive note the rims shine up nicely Parts have been ordered and now I have to decide if I should pull the engine to paint the frame... I have decided not to tear into the engine, as I had a BMW mechanic look at the bike before I bought it. He said it has great compression and needs nothing (he did a bunch of work on this bike for the previous owner). I do plan on painting the timing cover, valve covers, and starter cover black. I hear great things about White Diamond polish and hope this can bring some luster back to the engine casing. This thing is very dirty and greasy and has over-spray (black and orange) all over it.
I am planning to paint the tank and modified fenders (and possibly cafe seat) back to its original color (black) or a deep army green. Factory turn signals are going and are going to be replaced with classic (60's) BMW bar-end turn signals. Getting completely new exhaust and headers. Bought some Euro bars and am trying to decide on what to do with the seat. It came with a pretty nice corbin, but is not the cafe style I am looking for. Anyway, on to removing the original broken gauge in the headlight....
IMG
Got my new purchase shipped to me last week from Indiana (barn find). The shipping guy delivered the bike to the grocery store parking lot across the street and to no surprise the battery was dead.... so I pushed it to my place, which sucked as there is a big hill . A little charge on the battery and the next day, vroooom, the 599 cc started right up with both electric and kick-start. Nothing like priming those old BING carbs (ticklers) to get it running. I will probably replace these with Mikini carbs, as I hear good things. This is what it looked and sounded like 6 days ago: http://www.youtube.com/v/7zNczklITNA?hl=en&fs=1 (note: this is after removing the front fender, fairing and a few other parts)
Took her for a spin and then started tearing her down.
Below is the current state of the bike. The guy who owned it before me clearly masked (tried to at least) off the bike and painted things in place. The result, painted rubber parts (rings, etc) that are completely toast and over-spray everywhere. On a positive note the rims shine up nicely Parts have been ordered and now I have to decide if I should pull the engine to paint the frame... I have decided not to tear into the engine, as I had a BMW mechanic look at the bike before I bought it. He said it has great compression and needs nothing (he did a bunch of work on this bike for the previous owner). I do plan on painting the timing cover, valve covers, and starter cover black. I hear great things about White Diamond polish and hope this can bring some luster back to the engine casing. This thing is very dirty and greasy and has over-spray (black and orange) all over it.
I am planning to paint the tank and modified fenders (and possibly cafe seat) back to its original color (black) or a deep army green. Factory turn signals are going and are going to be replaced with classic (60's) BMW bar-end turn signals. Getting completely new exhaust and headers. Bought some Euro bars and am trying to decide on what to do with the seat. It came with a pretty nice corbin, but is not the cafe style I am looking for. Anyway, on to removing the original broken gauge in the headlight....
IMG