what did you wrench on today??

[dorkburger]

Rancid! Nice. My younger son digs the song Last One To Die. As do I.
I look forward to when I can kick back in a warm garage.

 

[GSXR7ED]

Nice job DB!


Ed

 

[BurntKittyForge]

Love the Hayabusa and the GS 850 eye candy too.

The 4-1 header looks like mine were except with intact chrome where there wasn't rust and dents/scratches.
Wasn't ready to paint over the good chrome part , so I taped it off and only treated/ prepped the bad spots (in line sections, due to tape, in middle and bottom of header) came out good for now.

Got a huge discounted Harbor freight flux welder but no garage and it rained, then I went out of town. so no use yet.

Two weeks ago I Drove my daughters out to flea market / farm auction in southern MD to buy them a bunny rabbit from an amish (think amish, wagon and all) couple. Only them and they only had about four to pick from due to rain...No idea what will happen from this all BUT atleast it got saved from being eaten...

Funny thing I went there because the Pet Smart girl had been trained to up-sell so well , she refused to sell us a actual feeder goldfish last year because I had a ten gallon tank, and she wanted me to buy the 700 dollar tank, $50 gravel, 100 dollar filter etc. for a fish intended to get eaten ...then called me a liar basically when I told her our goldfish had been fine, growing and healthy for TWO YEARS in a tank she said would kill it. So finally she says "Maybe but that's cruel because it's internals [guts] will grow bigger than it's body in that tank it will suffer horribly..." (the goldfish that is and "blah blah blah")
LOL , that actually is what happens to midgets anyway NOT goldfish ,IIRC.

Soooo ,My buddy out that way gave me a huge tank and huge pine shaving bag (for the rabbit) and when I told him why I was up there (Pet-smart girl) he laughed and said," yep,you mean A typical [these days]Northern Virginia A-Hole"

"should've bought it walked out front and bit it's head off in front of the store" ,he said. LOL...

...Anyway been wrenching on an old Benjamin/Sheridan air rifle that some jack@ss promptly broke years ago ...right after I got it and now I get it in my hands after many more years, with some rust starting due to improperly stored...it's half old style/ half newer model in between, or just the older model (Got to know to repair it...Just going to give it to my nephews (again) once I get it working. About to make a valve tool from a 1/4" driver in a minute, and pull the old style valve.

Funny thing about all this, I had a few job interviews in Outer Banks North Carolina the past week and IF I get it I gotta move not just the MC and stuff but NOW a welder, a bunny, etc. nonsense mentioned .

There's beaches, dune buggies, hang-gliding, fishing, boating , lots of stuff and great relaxing too there...got fingers crossed.

I'll be seperating some scrap metal, finishing the outdoor rabbit hutch I started (welded wire from lowe's and a file cabinet...) Rabbits are pretty awesome IMO, no mean bone in them. can sell their babies with a cage/hutch or let them go, and shoot them and eat them and skin them later. Weird. Good though IMO.

Going to go for ride and sort out what carburetor needs to be top notch. It was 60's and sunny in OBX this past week. EVERY day would've been good for riding. Very nice place. Awesome for family and relaxing. Got one probably definate part-time job lined up (20 hours/wk) trying to decide on it thinking couldn't be much worse than my full-time in Northern VA...
Time to wrench , stoopid scrap metal, my Saturday and I might get $10/hr. have to clean truck...stripping aluminum cable fun fun...need truck cleaned out today. God Bless.:tyrannosaurus:

 

[Blue Falcon]

81 GS450EX..... quote for shop doing my fork oil change out $290, my price $10 oil, $20 tool, $0 (woulda been $20) new mirror...... so, everything was going great until I went to compress the forks (still on bike) and pinched my OEM passenger mirror.. luckily I have the salvage 450 I bought a couple weeks ago. NOTE TO SELF... when removing handlebars....take off the mirrors first. Dumbarse attack on that one. But hey... my front end doesn't bottom out at stop signs now.

 

[Jedz123]

The Cafe-G project... Finally I see something I want to do with this L.

 

[Buffalo Bill]

The Cafe-G project... Finally I see something I want to do with this L.

It must be because it's up on a jack, but I'm reminded of all the brat bikes with low seats and high bars.
I hope you're not headed for that look. I lowered the front end of my last 2 bike projects for better turn in.

 

[sam000lee]

Disassembled the GS750 carbs today

Here's one of the needle jets with clogged passages:

The PO assured me that the carbs had been `rebuilt' recently....

Carb. #1 and all it's bits are in the bucket tonight.

 

[Jedz123]

The front end is unsprung... So it will drop few inches (gotta love those L folks). Super bike bars installed.

We will see what happens. It will likely surprise me too

 

[Grimly]

Nothing much today - another section of workshop wall insulated. I'll feel the difference during the remainder of this winter, and hopefully get the rest of it finished off during the summer.
Once get the upper floor complete, the crap that's still downstairs occupying space in the outer workshop can be stored up there, and I'll have at the floor, digging out some rubble and throwing down some concrete, enabling me to store the daily riders out there, leaving the workshop with more room.

 

[dorkburger]

Nice. I was insulating duct today at work and saved some cuts that were otherwise trash to plug up some spots in my spottily insulated garage.

And I filled the bike with oil.

 

[Burque73]

We finally got around to repainting the bedroom our daughter occupied while she was here. Several years ago I helped her paint it pink, then she took markers or paint sticks of some sort and wrote Bible verses, quotes from movies, and favorite sayings on all walls and the ceiling. Her room looked like a high school yearbook signed by the whole class! I'm on primer coat number five trying to hide this stuff. Ive never had anything bleed through so many coats like this. I even scrubbed the marker off with those grime boss wipes before the first coat. Ugh, may wind up with paneling or just skim coat and re texture the room

 

[thebrandonbeezy]

It must be because it's up on a jack, but I'm reminded of all the brat bikes with low seats and high bars.
I hope you're not headed for that look. I lowered the front end of my last 2 bike projects for better turn in.

Looks more like a bobber type deal to me. But regardless caf? bikes have a high ass and low front. Unless youre at the local hardly dealership and looking at their idea of a "cafe" which is just a baby sportster with bubble style windscreen. Jedz123 im not knocking your bike at all, in fact i like it i like the style but its not a cafe.

 

[thebrandonbeezy]

The Cafe-G project... Finally I see something I want to do with this L.

Clipons rearsets and the front lower than the rear and id say it'd be a nice cafeish beast pal

 

[thebrandonbeezy]

Today i got most of my lightning harnesses done. Cluster is fully mounted and fully functional now all lights, gear indicator, and gas gauge.(yay!) Next step was adding in the head light and tail light. For some reason i cant seem to get the head light to work. Its a brand new bulb and its wired up properly (that i know of) tomorrow im going to isolate the head light circuit and see if i can get it to work. If not ill return the bulb for another and if that doesn't work ill be on here to confirm my hack job wiring haha

 

[Jedz123]

Clipons rearsets and the front lower than the rear and id say it'd be a nice cafeish beast pal

Gotcha!. Thanks for the constructive input.

 

[Jedz123]

Looks more like a bobber type deal to me. But regardless caf? bikes have a high ass and low front. Unless youre at the local hardly dealership and looking at their idea of a "cafe" which is just a baby sportster with bubble style windscreen. Jedz123 im not knocking your bike at all, in fact i like it i like the style but its not a cafe.

Thanks again for the input... Good call, I guess a cafe is not what this thing is ending up.. I'll be playing with it before spring. It will be some form of an abomination to my liking and riding style. At least it won't be an L anymore.

Thanks

 

[Guest]

We finally got around to repainting the bedroom our daughter occupied while she was here. Several years ago I helped her paint it pink, then she took markers or paint sticks of some sort and wrote Bible verses, quotes from movies, and favorite sayings on all walls and the ceiling. Her room looked like a high school yearbook signed by the whole class! I'm on primer coat number five trying to hide this stuff. Ive never had anything bleed through so many coats like this. I even scrubbed the marker off with those grime boss wipes before the first coat. Ugh, may wind up with paneling or just skim coat and re texture the room

Current fad in interior house painting is multi-colored walls, often using bold colors. I suspect that marketing departments at paint companies are counting on your problem burgeoning across the entire country over the next 5 to 15 years as (1) People tire of loud designs (2) Houses are bought by people whose tasted differ from the current owners. Billions of gallons of primer will be sold to try to cover the designs.

My suggestion, which I haven't tried: White primer has poor color covering power. Go to a much darker shade. After the marks are covered, switch to white again. It won't be as brilliant as if bright white primer was used, but it will hide the mess.
Another suggestion: Use exterior paint in 5 gallon buckets, as it costs much less. Then top coat with the good stuff.

 

[Burque73]

Current fad in interior house painting is multi-colored walls, often using bold colors. I suspect that marketing departments at paint companies are counting on your problem burgeoning across the entire country over the next 5 to 15 years as (1) People tire of loud designs (2) Houses are bought by people whose tasted differ from the current owners. Billions of gallons of primer will be sold to try to cover the designs.

My suggestion, which I haven't tried: White primer has poor color covering power. Go to a much darker shade. After the marks are covered, switch to white again. It won't be as brilliant as if bright white primer was used, but it will hide the mess.
Another suggestion: Use exterior paint in 5 gallon buckets, as it costs much less. Then top coat with the good stuff.

Thanks Tom.

I wound up going over the marks with some other paint we had here. It covered better than the primer. Now after two coats on the ceiling and one on the walls, I've got one final coat to do on the walls, then I'll hit the trim and be done. I'll finish up ma?ana (doesn't necessarily mean tomorrow, just not today!)

 

[cowboyup3371]

Forks are back together; the new tubes from Franks Forks look so nice that it might be a crime to leave them unprotected. It was suggested I get some guards so I may consider it.



I'm hoping I'll be on the road in the next few weeks but not sure as work is really kicking me. After being up all day yesterday, I worked for almost 14 hours last night replacing equipment at the hospital. Sure has been a fun day today

 

[Harbone66]

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