1980 GL1100 "Orange Crush" build

MOAR STUFF!

Radiator.... disgusting!
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And ye shall be chemical stripped and sand blasted!
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All those bent fins.... some time with the radiator comb will do the trick, TA-DAA!!
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Yea, definately going to have to do the radiator 2-tone.... yea definately.

And work on the front wheel shall commence.
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Wheel ready to go the blaster and be powercoated. New wheel bearings are on the way.

MOAR TOMORROW!
 
Not my Ferrari, it's a customers. Doing a complete workover paintwise. The last shop to paint it butchered the hell out of it. Rust verywhere, sand scratches in the basecoat, shitty filler work.

I wouldnt own a ferrari if my life depended on it.

This is my baby....

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I'm a Porsche and pre 69' Mustang guy through and through.
 
Another Shameless plug.

Finished complete down to metal paint restoration on my dad's 1980 Weissach 911 (#212 of 400) about a year ago...

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We've got pictures of the whole paint process on a hard-disk somewhere.
 
And the radiator is painted



Blacked it out earlier today with Wurth Satin Black trim coat... Then masked the area off to stay black and got ready for silver.
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Silver applied
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Clearcoated
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And after that, i blasted the Fan motor mount and fan. The fan blade will be white and the mount will be silver. The motor is gonna be freshened with satin trim paint before assembly.

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-Matt
 
I'll just leave these here...

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Replacement ignition unit installed
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Coolant tubes installed
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Engine goes in the frame tomorrow. Valve covers still need to be painted. Some other misc. chrome covers on the engine will be pulled off, sanded and painted after the block is in the bike.

Next is wheels. Nothing special on those. Just satin black. Those Comstars are horrible, so just trying to make them not noticible.

Thanks for all the advice and help. This is a huge project for me. Ive never done a bike before. So yea, you guys are awesome.

-Matt
 
I almost did not read this one.. just because the Sharks suck.. (Go Blackhawks!) I am glad I did though.
 
Wow.... Long time no post. need to rectify that pronto!

Sorry for the break guys. Life got in the way, low cash flow and having to pay for a vacation to upstate new york took precidence. But I'm back!

So something happened durring the break...

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yea, that happened. Donor bike!

The doror bike is a 'Runner" of sorts. really bad knock at idle that goes away when ya rev it. Have no idea of the cause of that, and really dont care. Everything that was broken when we brought Orance Crush home will be replaced with the good parts from this bike. Best part, it was only $700. if any of you guys need parts, ask away and if I'm not gonna use them i'll sell them to ya.

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Got the fuel pump and new gasket from BikeBandit installed. The donor bike has a really cool fuel pump cover that i'm probably gonna throw on this, but paint it to match the engine trim i'm installing.

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Got the upper motor mounts installed. Used Yellow Zink grade 8 hardware. May look kinda funky, but better to be safe then sorry.

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Had to hand sand the post on the frame that the rear brake level rotates on. Too much paint buildup. Then polished up the brake lever, installed the return spring and retainer on the back side. Then assembled the foot pegs and installed them as well.

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And then used the almost brand new looking rear brake light switch off the donor and got it installed with it's return spring.

taking the rear brake master to work tomorrow for disassembly. Gonna see if we have the o-rings to rebuild it, and then hopefully install the tomorrow. Will snap pics of that as well.

-Matt
 
Glad you are back, knock at idle can be ignition timing off and 1-2 cylinders not firing, it generally goes away when advance hits at higher revs and when timing is spot on, mine had it when I got it, I changed points and re-timed and it went away even at idle, it is now back indicating I need to re-set points again, it is 8-10K miles since I put the new points in and so makes sense. She is looking great BTW.
 
Maritime said:
Glad you are back, knock at idle can be ignition timing off and 1-2 cylinders not firing, it generally goes away when advance hits at higher revs and when timing is spot on, mine had it when I got it, I changed points and re-timed and it went away even at idle, it is now back indicating I need to re-set points again, it is 8-10K miles since I put the new points in and so makes sense. She is looking great BTW.
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^^^ this. Or it could be valves like my last one...running on 2cyl in the low end would knock, at the higher end it just wouldn't have power, but there wasn't knocking. Just tossing that out there as I WAS able to ride that thing...on just the RIGHT 2 cylinders...ha!
 
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