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De-stinking Penelope

Straightened up the back room attached to the garage and built some additional shelving. Moved the Shelby from the barn at the Ex-wife's house to my driveway. Working on getting a new body for it so that will need an open spot in the garage to park them side by side. Today I'll be finishing up with the reassembly of Stans GS1100GK's cylinder head.

Soon Chuck... I'll be back on her very soon.
 
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I am holding to the [promise that when you get her done, we will ride together. I will start saving gas money to come to MI. I would like to ride up north to the guys (Joe) place and have him see the bike again. He will really be awestruck.
 
Then that will make three of us making the trip up north. You, me and Stan on his GK. :)
 
From dales place, about 150 miles. Thats the bike i found from a guy that came up to me at the gas pump when i was on my 77 750. Some may recall the story. dale has some pics of her "RIPE" from the barn..LMAO. Talk about a rough bike!! I actually passed on it ( and i dont usually squirm from much ) but she looked way worse than anything I wanted to tackle!!!!
 
not sure how i missed this thread... :confused:
it's looking good rusty! ol' penelope's coming up nicely! :)
 
Thanks Ivor! I just need to get back to working on her soon. That will be after I get Stan's GK put back together and I get things in the garage all sorted. (Just got an 850 camshaft for it) :rolleyes:
 
Damn, I am so green with envy, I am starting to get withdrawal symptoms from not wreching in the garage..........:mad::mad::(:(
 
Then hurry up and get over here damik! I'll supply the beer and the wrenches, you already own the bike and the title is exactly where you left it. :)
 
Little bump of encouragement to Dale.;) Looking forward to an update on this rig.:D
 
Getting anything done on the old girl Dale? Has been a while since we have seen any updates.
 
I bought a few things, two of which were to replace those that were too pitted for my tastes. (did I tell you I've learned to hate rust?)

Both pieces ended up being incorrect for my model year. The good news is, with a little modification they both can be used, plus I needed to buy good battery box 'padding' anyways. One of which, the electrics panel had to be modified anyways to use the SH-775-BA reg/rec I just bought for $46 shipped off of Ebay. No great loss on this end.


Pictures of the battery boxes. The one on the left is missing the holder for the TSCU.
the plan is to cut it off the old and weld it onto the newer'ish one.

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Stay tuned... spring is just around the bend :D
 
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Ivor, I hate just about anything which doesn't resemble the way pieces came from the factory. I also hate what this sort of thinking has done to my pocketbook!

I need therapy... :)
 
Dale..I tried and tried to talk you out of it. Did I or did I not?????? I think she was the right bike for you though. Lesser capable hands wouldnt have done her justice. Maybe if I have the vacation time next summer I will bring mine up and we can ride up north and see if we can find Joe ( the guy we got it from ) and show him the newly resurrected version.
 
Chuck, I wouldn't necessarily say you tried to talk me out of it, but you did emphasize repeatedly how rough a condition it was in.

I never hesitated when you asked me if I wanted it either.

Again, I've enjoyed every minute I spent working on it and yes, we shall take a ride to show him it.
 
It is therapy!

Cut off a un-needed bracket on my new electrics panel in order to test fit a series SH775BA R/R.

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Cut apart the the old battery box with a hack saw and used a die grinder to remove the needed TSCU bracket so I could convert this 79 "L" box into an "E" box.

And the two shall become one... (even kept the external spot welds by cutting it from the inside ;) )


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