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Sojourner
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Here's what $650 and a little negotiating gets you from Craigslist. Note- 36k on the clock. Tires are old but decent, the battery was good, and I could ride it home. On the other hand the charging system was shot (found out the hard way), the muffler was shot thanks to some sort of hillbilly hack-job, it was missing both side covers, the lunchbox headlight fairing was shattered, the oil drain plug/pan interface was stripped, and it was ugly as sin.
Since then I've ditched the Vetter fairing, yanked the checkerboard tape off it, super-glued the lunchbox back together as best I could, sanded and rattle canned a decent 10' paint job, repainted the Suzuki emblems, dropped the header and dug out the old exhaust gaskets, swapped over to exhaust studs, painted and then wrapped the header since it was rusted and dented, mounted the slip-on muffler (had to have a reducer welded on), replaced the stock R/R with a Compufire unit, replaced the stock stator with a Rick's unit, adjusted the valves, and gapped/replaced the plugs.
Still to do: Get the carbs fully torn down, painted/polished, and new o-rings installed. Get a M14 1.5 +1 drain plug and get it up in there to fix that slow leak. Get some new chrome mirrors. I've also got some new higher bars and front turn signals to mount to those bars, but I'll probably need new clutch and throttle cables due to the length difference. Over the winter I want to try my hand at making a custom king/queen seat on an E pan as well as custom side covers. Next spring it'll get a proper pro spray job, replace the chain, and I can start chroming the covers and soda-blast/paint the engine.
Since then I've ditched the Vetter fairing, yanked the checkerboard tape off it, super-glued the lunchbox back together as best I could, sanded and rattle canned a decent 10' paint job, repainted the Suzuki emblems, dropped the header and dug out the old exhaust gaskets, swapped over to exhaust studs, painted and then wrapped the header since it was rusted and dented, mounted the slip-on muffler (had to have a reducer welded on), replaced the stock R/R with a Compufire unit, replaced the stock stator with a Rick's unit, adjusted the valves, and gapped/replaced the plugs.
Still to do: Get the carbs fully torn down, painted/polished, and new o-rings installed. Get a M14 1.5 +1 drain plug and get it up in there to fix that slow leak. Get some new chrome mirrors. I've also got some new higher bars and front turn signals to mount to those bars, but I'll probably need new clutch and throttle cables due to the length difference. Over the winter I want to try my hand at making a custom king/queen seat on an E pan as well as custom side covers. Next spring it'll get a proper pro spray job, replace the chain, and I can start chroming the covers and soda-blast/paint the engine.
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