A skunk in the works

Stripping is done, only 4 dents to take care of.Not bad for a tank it's age.Started refining the seat trim to,Another layer of slurry tomorrow.

Took the paint stripper I had left to the tank.

Wire brushed the slag off,ran out of stripper and got to get more

After making sure the seat trim was ABS here http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum...d.php?t=189654 I reattached the broken bits with acetone.


Then made an acetone/abs slurry to fill in.Put it no the seat so it sets up where it needs to.

[Octain]

Glad you decided not to paint em. They look much better OEM.

I used Meguiar's Mirror Glaze Fine Cut.Do look a lot better don't theyMaybe 1/2 an hour tops to do both.

Well done. Looks great.

Wow. A little polishing and it's a stark difference. Looking good.

What'd you do to polish them?

I used Meguiar's Mirror Glaze Fine Cut.Do look a lot better don't theyMaybe 1/2 an hour tops to do both.

Lookin Good SV!

Wow. A little polishing and it's a stark difference. Looking good.

What'd you do to polish them?

Dale (rustybronco) suggested polishing the sidecovers,much better.Chuck Hann sent me the badges.Repainted the black and red to freshen them up.

Happy I could help Dale.

Weather stripped the airbox lid.

Seems a bit odd to worry about that with these in the box but I did it anyway.

The glove box cleaned up real nice,repainted the tool holder.


A bit more sanding to get rid of the rat bike matte black Looks good just a coat of primer I think.

The sidecovers are looking to be in great shape,thinking I'll just leave them in they're original state.Two less things to paint

[rustybronco]

Exactly what I was looking to find out. I really appreciate it Greg!

This would have to come off.Not he exact cut line but the best I could get it.

[rustybronco]

Thanks for the photos Greg. I very much appreciated seeing them.

Is the problem in getting the later lever to fit the '78's perch, the slight difference in curvature near where the ball of the cable seats?, or is it the length of the area where the little notch is?

Here's the overall.

And a close up of the end.I prefer the "dogleg"style levers myself.These are eBay knock offs.

[rustybronco]

Actually Chuck, I had no intent on using those original levers, so there is no need to think I shouldn't have sent it to you. In fact you can have the brake lever after I'm done with it as well, if you could use it. My plan is to use the same levers that are on my '82 and thankfully, the finish has held up on the very well. That's probably one of the only things that are going to be non stock on my '78.

[chuck hahn]

Dale FYI...I had bought a new one from the dealer for the first skunk and it was a dead on match for the old ( but bent downward) original..You shouldnt have taken yours off and sent it to me. Had i known that was what you were doing I would have strongly refused to accept it. And the OEMs were plain aluminum and not black. If youre gonna go with them blackened I would get them anodized black and not painted. Hands and gloves will wear paint off rather quickly I would think.