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[simon kuether]

Get one of the geeks to do it for you . They love that $hit .

We've just got back from the States and are all keen about the 650 again . Might have a few visitors in the next couple of years .

Keep plugging away and do each bit "properly" and you'll end up with a REAL GOOD ride .

Cheers , Simon .

[Mop Bucket]

Will you post some more recent pics? I am liking the black and I have been thinking of blacking some of the parts. I liked the earlier pictures and the look of the bike. Would be nice to see what it looks like now. Thanks.

[Flyboy]

Sanding on the bike part while it's on the frame is a little shade-tree I know, but I didn't have a choice

as I don't have a bench in the garage

Don't worry, you and me both.
Looking good, you did get a lot of work done

[irishguy1978]

thanks simon. if you're ever riding through wherever I am just send me an email.

MopBucket, I'll post some pics tonight when I get home from the motorpool. not much has been done though but I'll post on what I have.

Flyboy, it's weird. I work in an army motorpool and I have more tools and resources at my disposal at my house than I do at the MP. it's hard to get into the sprocket center here on post.

thanks guys

[irishguy1978]

here's Some pics of the tank prior to evupo rust. ill post after pics when; have them

[irishguy1978]

ok I had some time to work on the bike yesterday. I had let the tank sit about a week because after 48n hours it still had a bunch of rust all over the place. here's some pictures of the tank post evaporust.:




I also finished getting the LED's installed (they look a little canted in the pic but they are straight...the bars were turned a bit). I also put on some older lights from a CB750 I had to use as side signals. I did this to see how it would look having some side signals in place. I'll prolly get smaller LED's later and they are just try hung now, but it gave me a chance to run wire, and see about how it looked. I also have pictures of the flasher unit. thanks to basscliff's site I was able to figure it out (I'm an electric numskull)






the stock plug worked, I just had to run a ground wire.



here's a video link of everything flashing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ1Ze1YqZo4

[Johnny Drummond]

hey Irishguy, know what you mean about electrics. I re-wired my bike 11 years ago, the PO had left it in a mess with 3 seperate indicator relays and was set up that if you removed any one of them the flashers didn't work!, headlights that were really car spotlamps on a homemade frame and wired so that hi beam on the bulbs were switched on when you put the lights in lo and lo worked for hi,half of the block connectors were held together with scotch tape and there were 4 wires that attached directly to the earth pole of the battery and 2 attached to the live pole.
I took the whole sorry mess out and put it on the only bench I had, a house door held up by 4 dining chairs and started one wire at a time to make a loom- something that I had never done before. How I did mine was to have seperate relays for left front/rear and right front/rear and the same for hi and lo on the headlight circuit,all that I had to do then was fabricate a new panel behind the side cover to hold the relays,reg/rec,fuse box and starter solenoid. I am lucky that my father in law broke cars for parts and then kept whatever junkers he had when he retired it was where iI got the wire and some of the relays from. The point I'm trying to make is take your time check everything twice and remember the greatest engineering maxim ever "if it looks right and feels right-then it is right" this was the favourite saying of Isembard Kingdom Brunel if that is ok by the greatest engineer of the 19th century it's good enough for me! good luck with the restoration.Johnny

[irishguy1978]

holy smokes so you're a self taught spark chaser! I'm impressed. Me, I'm just bad at troubleshooting electrical problems and am not really familiar with circuits and stuff. I follow the old mantra electricity lows like water and try not to set anything on fire. I'm getting better, but I still have a LOT to learn. I can barely get through an advanced wiring schematic. if it's pretty standard and doesn't have a lot of switched, fuse-able links, relays etc I'm ok, but complicated ones drive me batty.

[irishguy1978]

ok well I decided that once I get everything back together and have time to hook the tank up and fire her up I'm going to nix the weird burgandy/purple and go with a metallic gunmetal for the color. I know it's getting ahead of myself but I think it will look better. this weekend I should have it running. Airbox is sealed, carbs are good to go, tank is cleaned out, and the wiring and ignition seem to all have the proper current and spark. hopefully everything will fall into place :-)

[irishguy1978]

...and I got everything back together, gassed up, and ready to go and fuel started pouring out from the carbs everywhere. I can't even tell where it's coming from. it looks like the top. time to take everything off so I can get the carbs off and see what's going on.