Freshening up...

[grinch77]

I think your on to something here.Cat armor you could make a killing at Renaissance Fairs.Just kidding nice work as usual can't wait to get mine back to start screwing around with it again.

 

[guitargeek]

Sorry I haven't posted, guys, but putting pics on this forum is a monumental pain in the ass!

 

[guitargeek]

Laying out the rear lighting subharness:

The plan is to glass in all the wires and leave a pigtail with the connector where I can tuck it away.

Fitting the bits up, making sure everything cohabits parsimoniously:

Looks like I'll need to bend the tag up a bit. Any of y'all ever get hassled for that?

 

[philos1]

Looks like the seat pan hangs kinda low. can you get it trimmed up so that there isn't that weird spot around/over the shocks?

Otherwise looks nice. Good idea on glassing in the wires (if the resin doesn't eat the plastic on them).

cheers.

 

[Swagger]

Dunno man, I kinda dig the seat's lines. It definitely stands out as unique...

 

[guitargeek]

Looks like the seat pan hangs kinda low.

No, it's actually a bit tall. It's definitely an aggressive riding position.

can you get it trimmed up so that there isn't that weird spot around/over the shocks?

So I should... cut away more fiberglass so there isn't a hole where the shocks go? Like, "I cut it three times and it's still too short"?

This seat is from a TZ250, which has a monoshock swingarm. Not much I could do but make cutouts for my dual shocks... or switch to a mono swingarm. If I was going to switch to a mono swingarm, I'd want the back wheel and brakes to go with it. Then, of course, I'd want a matching front end.

Maybe next time...

Otherwise looks nice. Good idea on glassing in the wires (if the resin doesn't eat the plastic on them).

cheers.

Yeah, I've got little bits of wire that I trimmed off, I'll put some resin on them and see if there's a reaction.

 

[guitargeek]

Fixed the gas leak.

Wally World doesn't stock NGK plugs, and their reference books are woefully inadequate. After much eyeballing and deliberation, I settled on a Bosch plug, the 4306.

After installing them, I poked the starter button and got a much more enthusiastic response! I didn't add more fuel and actually start the thing up because I didn't want to fumigate myself.

I moved on to my mirror mounts. These are the Emgo copies of Napoleon bar end mirrors, and the mounting hardware sucks. I devised a scheme with some rubber hose that just fit inside the handlebars, and some anchors that just barely fit inside that hose:

I swear, my engine went together easier than this!
All this just to install some mirrors...

 

[Speed2XS]

Great work. I think your attention to the details is paying off. I'm looking forward to seeing the finished product.

 

[Swagger]

Looks like you're doing a great job man, the only thing I'd worry about it the JB on the fuel tank. Nothing like riding a rolling comet impression.
I don't think it's hardy enough with regard t the fuel....I'd hate to hear that you had to change your screen name to "Crispy Critter" one day..

 

[guitargeek]

Looks like you're doing a great job man, the only thing I'd worry about it the JB on the fuel tank. Nothing like riding a rolling comet impression.
I don't think it's hardy enough with regard t the fuel....I'd hate to hear that you had to change your screen name to "Crispy Critter" one day..

I googled the hell out of it before I did it, and it seems that many, many people have successfully used J-B Weld to repair leaking fuel tanks (and a lot of other things like cracked heads and engine blocks), but for everyone who has used it there seem to be just as many who doubt it would work. I'm keeping my eye out for another GPz tank, but not because I doubt the J-B Weld, but because of the shear mass of Bondo on the tank! I'm afraid I'll hit a bump and a big slab of Bondo will fall off, hahaha!

http://jbweld.net/products/uses.php

 

[Swagger]

Gotcha....I guess it's a personal bias on my part. Dig your bike amigo!

 

[guitargeek]

Gotcha....I guess it's a personal bias on my part. Dig your bike amigo!

Thanks, man!

 

[JRK5892]

man it is looking awesome! I think i am going to copy that mount process on the bobber fender i am mounting on teh back of mine! looks good!

 

[guitargeek]

man it is looking awesome! I think i am going to copy that mount process on the bobber fender i am mounting on teh back of mine! looks good!

Bobber fender? You mean the hugger on the swingarm, or flipping the outer fender around to make it the inner fender?

 

[JRK5892]

my rear fender... here is the one i have going right now... it is all dented up though so i would like a new one, no big deal, i just have to bondo it up before paint... it is going to rider the rear tire mounted to the swing arm

 

[guitargeek]

I got a little tiny AGM battery. I'll be installing it where the battery is now, only laid over on it's side. I'm also gonna flip the fender around so it's on the rear again, and I'll cut it even shorter and use it as the battery tray. I'll cut down the plastic inner fender and put it back in it's original place (you won't see it when the seat's on).

So I've been in fiberglass and bondo hell the last few days.

I glassed in the wiring for the tail lights:

First coat of primer.

 

[guitargeek]

I cut down my inner fender:

I put the back fender back on the back, then started fitting up the little battery:

I'll work more on how to secure that to the frame later.

Meanwhile, work continues on the seat:

The top bolt goes under the rear frame loop, the bottom one is there to help spread the load and I'll attach the ground bus there.

More primer:

I added a coat of this stuff to the underside of the seat:

 

[guitargeek]

I cut the rear fender down so it'd fit under the tailpiece:

Alas, the little battery stuck up higher than the big battery had, so I had to lower the fender some. To a achieve this, I needed some spacers...

...which needed to be drilled out...

This lowered the fender about 3/8":

 

[guitargeek]

Hey presto, the seat fits!

I started prepping my new battery...

Still working on the battery tray, feathering the battery's nest...

None more black...

 

[JRK5892]

hell ya! looking good! what are you shooting it with (paint) looks awesome!