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I'm glad you decided to take some off the side covers, but overall it looks great. Looking forward to more.
Got any pictures of your Suzuki fork tool? I just made this one to do the forks on my GS.
I was thinking about putting it in the $50 mods section (if there's not already one there), but maybe yours is better.
I placed the T-handle in a vice, lowered the fork leg over it, then just used a M8 allen key socket with a small extension for the bottom of the fork legs. Amazingly easy.
i made mine with some threaded rod... works great as well and did not req welding, just red loc tite and some lock washers... if oyu need pics let me know... also let me know what your going to do with those stock shocks i am intrestd in them
what shocks do you have on yours now? are they the 10 or 11 in? if they are either one i would be intrested in takeing them off your hands for my CB350 build
10 3/4" if memory serves me correctly. I can dig them out tomorrow and let you know for sure. I'll take some pics too. thanks for those pics btw, something like that would work really nice for me.
IndieSol said:
Oh yeah, and I'm going to have to lower my front end now. Thanks for that.
you're quite welcome ;D . I made my tool with a socket, bolt, and two nuts tightened against each other on the bolt and jammed backward in the socket. No welding required here either, just a 1/2" ratchet, and a long-ass extension. I will take a picture of that tomorrow as well.
as for progress today, I put my novice welding skills to the test and made a very nice battery box which will be tacked into the frame tomorrow...again, pics tomorrow.
Progress report:
I did some more foam shaping and got a pretty close shape to what I want (close enough to use as a guide for my steel fabrication). and today I made my first panel, the left side panel. It took me all day just to make this one piece, so I can imagine that the tank and tail are going to be much more time consuming. So here are the pics of the work so far:
notice how I've cut the side panel down and lowered the rear about two inches from what it was
my first panel
decent penetration on the welds
this is a good indication of how curvy it is
I will have to weld on mounting tabs and some kind of structural support to the front, but for now, the skin is there and i'm pretty happy with how it turned out.
I mostly do real fire because I love the look and people seem to really like it, especially Harley guys.
but for this bike i'm going a completely different direction, lots of fine detail and masking, but i think the end result will be well worth it 8)
as for current developments on the bike, I made the other side panel today and started on the tail. Tomorrow I will figure out how this will all mount up to the frame and do some cutting and welding on it.
ya you are way better than me... for some reason i just can not get real fire to lay right or look smooth and flowing... just jacked up.. man that is great work.. makes me want to try harder ha hahaha!
auto air is what i typically use... i have not done too much finish work (lots of practice pieces) i looked and do not have any pics of my real flame... most of it ws done on scrap metal and later that was thrown out...
cool stuff, looks like your getting the hang of things. I use House of Kolor exclusively and love the results. I have used autoAIR in the past but I didn't like the slow dry times. If you want to get good at real fire, I recommend the DVD's that Mike Lavallee has put together. You can get them through TCP Global. They are a bit pricey, but they will pay for themselves the first job you do using those techniques.
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