Complete tear down

[Guest]

Anyone ever do a complete tear down? Greg's bike was looking rather ragged before he crashed. We were going to repaint it this winter anyway and I want to do everything... Frame, tank, tail all the parts that need it.... There's a bit of surface rust on there and I was wondering what the best practice is with painting plastic... mainly the sidecovers.

[80gs1000e]

Re: Complete tear down

Anyone ever do a complete tear down? Greg's bike was looking rather ragged before he crashed. We were going to repaint it this winter anyway and I want to do everything... Frame, tank, tail all the parts that need it.... There's a bit of surface rust on there and I was wondering what the best practice is with painting plastic... mainly the sidecovers.

Sidecovers = A big bucket of water/hose, Sandpaper (the kind for wetsanding from 100 to 1500), a sanding rubber block and lots of work. Keep the covers and paper wet, dunk them after a bit of sanding and repeat till smooth. Work your way through the grits. After the paint is totally off, then start going up till you get to the 1000, 1500. Should feel smooth when you are done. You'll have to do the tail section like that as well. Use Chemical stripper on the tank and follow up with those throw away drill grinder wheels. Work miracles.

[first timer]

don't touch the frame unless it looks like complete a$$, a little rust just paint over it. try to clean the frame the best you can with some kerosene and purple power degreaser, then see what that looks like.

i am currently repainting a frame and it is not fun, almost thinking i should have had someone do it.

-ryan

[80gs1000e]

i am currently repainting a frame and it is not fun, almost thinking i should have had someone do it.

-ryan

WTF? Wuss-boy!

[first timer]

my help seems to have gone dry.........


p.s i hate body work stuff, give me a wrench and a busted engine throw some messed up carbs in and i'll be happy give me a tank to paint and i'll cry.

-ryan

[Hoomgar]

my help seems to have gone dry.........


p.s i hate body work stuff, give me a wrench and a busted engine throw some messed up carbs in and i'll be happy give me a tank to paint and i'll cry.

-ryan

I am with you on the tank but the frame was a breaze man. I just did a complete tear down of mine and I sanded and painted the frame while I was at it. It was easy man

Just time consuming.

[skreemer]

I am with you on the tank but the frame was a breaze man. I just did a complete tear down of mine and I sanded and painted the frame while I was at it. It was easy man

Just time consuming.

How long did it take to get everything "off" then back "on"?

[Hoomgar]

I am with you on the tank but the frame was a breaze man. I just did a complete tear down of mine and I sanded and painted the frame while I was at it. It was easy man

Just time consuming.

How long did it take to get everything "off" then back "on"?

Every thing was off in about 1.5 to 2 hours. It is yet to be back on because I am still waiting on the engine.

Sanding and painting the frame was complete within the first week.

It looks great. Check out my WWW below.
The frame on wheels can be seen there as well as everything else that has been done so far.

http://www.thegsresources.com/_forum/viewtopic.php?t=16329

http://home.ptd.net/~megabyte/

[Nerobro]

That;s what my bike needs to look like. My frame is /brown. It was black originally. I want to get the bike back to black, or make it really white. Skreemer, we CAN do it in a week or three. :-) And sanding will help my motor skills.