My Daughter's bike, early in the build.

Parts cleaned up and back together. Just in time to rip off the front forks this weekend to do the same.

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Update:

This weekend's update...
Forks clean & done in black...
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Front all put back together...
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With that done I clened and polished the header and started welding up where the slip on is gonna go.
I'm starting to like this 'lil bike.
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Judging from all the rust in the carbs, the tank is just nasty. Enter stripping and relining the tank.
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Had to rig a way to plug off the hole for the petcock.
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First wash it out with soap and water.
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Then "FUN WITH ACID!" allways a good time. The rust and asorted crap did break loose and start to float way. Left this in overnite.
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The acid is dumpped out, tank rinsed clean and prepped with acitone. Entire inside became a dull gray.
Then I began to reline the tank.
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The liner is spread around to the entire tank flipping it on all sides so it coats all the bare metal. Extra liner was drained out the petcock hole.
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The entire inside of the tank is now coated in the white liner.
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The VALVE COVER: Back on, all bolts tighned to 84.6 Inch pounds, and they seem to have held.
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Thats about where I made it to this weekend, body work, finish fab on the pipe, side covers, tail lite, front fly screen & what ever else I find need done.
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Great job as always! Were you able to do anything about the broken bits under the valve cover at all? Or, just clean it all up and had enough threads there to torque?

Any ideas on the paint scheme yet?

Last, how's the young Lady holding up in the military? What's going to be her MOS again?
 
I used a Loc-Tite thread restore epoxy kit-thing my buddy had in his mechine shop. He said at the low torque it should be fine.

We think were gonna go with a dark matalic gray called "charcoal mist metalic" and then decide if it need a black stripe or not.

She's still in AIT in AZ for Intel, she maxed her last two PT tests and just passed selection (I have friends in SORB at Bragg) for Airborne school after she graduates AIT in Jan, then off to Ft Benning to Jump. She just got promoted to PFC E-3 by the post Commans Sgt Major who saw her correct one of her instructors when he was wrong. Then she got smoked.
 
Question for the pro... ;) When taking down the finish on plastic parts for refinishing, do you simply wet sand with a fine grit? Do you remove a lot of the previous finish or just rough up the coat to apply a new coat over it?

That tank is looking AWESOME! As always, you do FINE work!
 
As a rule with the ABS parts, paint sticks better to paint than plastic. This bike as it is( No B.S.) 5 coats of rattle can when I got it and getting it down to JUST the facory red and not down to BLACK ABS is not likely to happin. The tank went to bare steel. The the Parts left intact are pretty much the front fender and 2 small peices that cover the frame in front of the tail. The tail it's self is now mostly a fiberglass mod. Paint reaction is something I expect. I want to nail all that down now in the primer stage. the tank "looks good" but sanding block shows the high and low places and is still a work in progress before I go to color in the next week or 2. I need to build side covers and the fly screen and get them in primer before I'm at that stage.
Todays progress...
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Tank, rear frame covers & front fender in self-etching primer and ready to move forward.
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The tail is still a work in progress.
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This weekend I need to figure exactly how the tail light is going to be set into it. Then the tail can be finished up, side covers and a final plan on the front cowl/fly screen can be figured out.
 
After 3 attempts to build a fly screen for this bike, and all looking like crap, I went to plan B. I lowered the gages down about 3 or 4 inches and I'm happier with the look...
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Still fighting with the tail & tail light, as well as how the plate and rear turn signals are gonna end up back there. This is the next big problem I plan to attack.
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What IS finished up and behind me is the can. It's on, finished and solid as a rock.
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The tail, side covers & sealing up the front wiring behind the headlight are the things that need to be knocked next. As soon as time permits I will get that done and get this 'lil bike to paint.
 
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