My little resto

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Well, since I fired it up for the first time ever since mine I thought, what the heck. With all the other Skunks being restored I figured I might as well post up some pics of mine.

Nothing has left my garage for work. I intend to do everything thats left to do as well.

Some pics..

 

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[jwhelan65]

I am liken this , great work!

 

[Guest]

Thanks!
I just noticed anti seize on the frame. Had to go out and wipe it off, lol..

 

[chuck hahn]

Its about time you posted it!! Im knew you had one and was working on it..looks great. Love that reflection in the covers!!

 

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Its about time you posted it!! Im knew you had one and was working on it..looks great. Love that reflection in the covers!!

PFFT... November was a year that I've owned it.
Pretty bad huh?
What can I say, I'm lazy.

Those pipes, heh. Those pipes were some damn hard work. I cant say I ever wanna do that again.

 

[chuck hahn]

LMAO..yeah i cringed when i saw them..made my eyes hurt!!! Ay least yours cleaned up. all the ones i came across were rotted out either on the outside or the baffles were rotted off and rattling arond inside.

 

[Guest]

What's that "smokey" appearance in the 4th pic from the top? A GS ghost of the machine

 

[chuck hahn]

Probably holding a cig in the camera hand..its a cool effect though.

 

[Nessism]

Amazing work! You done good! What does the body work look like?

 

[JEEPRUSTY]

lovely bike thanks for sharing.

 

[Charlie G]

Dang! It's lookin good!

cg

 

[Guest]

Those pipes, heh. Those pipes were some damn hard work. I cant say I ever wanna do that again.

Those pipes look fantastic! Had some doubts when I first saw them on E-bay, just really couldn't tell how good or bad they were. Looks like it worked out very well for you, so.............. was it worth it? I say YES!
The bike looks really great also, that buffer really got a work out.
You've definitely earned some braggin rights.

 

[Guest]

Thanks guys!
Ness, the body work will be a challenge all in itself. The inside of the tank really needs some work. Side panels and tail section look good.
I'm more concerned about the odd low rpm knocking noise it has on the clutch side.
Hopefully its something with the clutch.

I'm not sure what the smokey look is in the pic.

 

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Those pipes look fantastic! Had some doubts when I first saw them on E-bay, just really couldn't tell how good or bad they were. Looks like it worked out very well for you, so.............. was it worth it? I say YES!
The bike looks really great also, that buffer really got a work out.
You've definitely earned some braggin rights.

Of course we all know pics look better than real life. I'm happy with the pipes(I got lucky). They aint perfect but turned out real good for 30 year old chrome.
Still have to get the rear section bolted up, lol.

 

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Figured out the knock. You guessed it, lose clutch basket nut.
Which kinda makes me wonder what I've been wondering all along. Why was this bike parked to begin with?
Perhaps the PO(or PO, PO..) thought that perhaps it had a rod knocking?
It sounded really really bad.
Who knows...

Ordered a new air filter before I fine tune it but believe it or not, despite the helluva time I had getting it started for the first time it fires right up. Needless to say without a filter it's not running very well.
Remember that cylinder that had low compression? Check em all and for the life of me I cant find it anymore. All of em above 150psi

Now I'm excited to get started on the bodywork.

 

[TheCafeKid]

Figured out the knock. You guessed it, lose clutch basket nut.
Which kinda makes me wonder what I've been wondering all along. Why was this bike parked to begin with?
Perhaps the PO(or PO, PO..) thought that perhaps it had a rod knocking?
It sounded really really bad.
Who knows...

Ordered a new air filter before I fine tune it but believe it or not, despite the helluva time I had getting it started for the first time it fires right up. Needless to say without a filter it's not running very well.
Remember that cylinder that had low compression? Check em all and for the life of me I cant find it anymore. All of em above 150psi

Now I'm excited to get started on the bodywork.

Nice work Todd! It's really starting to take shape into a bona fide head turner.
The odd Compression reading may have simply been a sticky ring that once run for a bit freed up. Brett Griffin had a 750 that he thought was bad news when he first started it. Blowing oil out of both pipes and crap compression but after a bit of running all the pots perked up and it was a great runner.
Can't wait to see more! Keep up the nice work.

 

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Nice work Todd! It's really starting to take shape into a bona fide head turner.
The odd Compression reading may have simply been a sticky ring that once run for a bit freed up. Brett Griffin had a 750 that he thought was bad news when he first started it. Blowing oil out of both pipes and crap compression but after a bit of running all the pots perked up and it was a great runner.
Can't wait to see more! Keep up the nice work.

Thanks Josh.

I'm not running it much with no air filter but it does seems to run better the longer I run it. Man you should have seen the soot come out of this thing. I had to sweep the darned garage floor it was so bad.

Head turner, heh.. My 850 turns heads