what did you wrench on today??

[NoH2Oh]

New pads, fluid and cleaned calipers (3) on my pallys 1981 ahem, Honda CB750 Supersport. Not sure they were ever serviced before..... also changed his oil/filter after he asked how much do I torque the drain plug?

To me this is cheap therapy.

 

[FreshmanJoe]

78 gs 1000

78 gs 1000

Because I don't trust myself to clean my gunked up carbs or adjust my valve clearance which I'm assuming NEEDS to be done by all the racket it produces. I polished and waxed. Then decided that my forks looked like they were 34 yrs old (which they are) and decided that I wanted them to look new so I put a medium wire buffer bit on my drill and buffed and over the next few hrs worked up to a real fine steel wool. Now I have the right fork looking like new and the left looking old. Looks like instead of my Sunday ride I'll be buffing some more. I think by the time I have the cash to visit the bike doc she'll look like she's brand new. Now If only I could get her running that way. At least It'll only cost me $300 to clean the carbs, adjust the valve clearance, retap the oil pan (yes I ruined the thread hence why I'm not attemping to do anything major), and rewire the turn singles. Then I think I'll have to see how far I can go before I have to go back home.

 

[cowboyup3371]

Replaced my bullet connectors and watched the auto repair guy weld the new air box bracket onto my bike.

 

[keman]

Pulled, cleaned, and painted stator cover, going to put the replacement stator in tomorrow and put the covers back on with ss socket caps.... pics to follow.

The used stator going in looks worse than the old one coming out. I'll be going through the full tests again soon as I get new oil in the bike.

 

[Baatfam]

Changed the oil and filters in my CTS, Suburban and Miata....
Also put new rear rotors and pads on the CTS...

Today...the K-bike gets an oil change and new filter.

 

[Guest]

Made a bracket for my Acewell speed sensor last night and got the lock on the battery box cover.

Got it all almost ready for paint, just need to do some smoothing and rounding of sharp edges and give it all a sand and clean.

 

[Jon Boy]

New exhaust fitted to the 250T to replace the sorry looking 2 into 1 Micron.
Bought the used headers off ebay and had them shipped to the UK, after a bit of cleaning, paint and polishing they came up nice.
Mufflers are a pair of cheapo megaphones off ebay UK - and they are well f**king loud!
I will attempt to link pics from photobucket, not really sure how it works, here goes...

Before...

Headers...

On the bike...

 

[Guest]

Looks good. How did you get those down pipes to clean up so well.:clap:

 

[7981GS]

WOW!!!!
How the heck DID you get those pipes so nice!!!
Simply amazing!!!

Eric

 

[Jon Boy]

Thanks for the compliments guys, I used my tried and tested de-rusting/pitting technique.
Take one Stanley (utility) knife blade and gently fret away at the worst of the rust at a very shallow angle a bit like scraping away old gasket, next I worked on it with Britemax Easy Cut metal polish and a lot of elbow grease, finally a good coat of Meguiars NXT metal polish and yet more elbow grease and buffing to a really good shine. I ended up with very achey arms and sore fingers but it's a small price to pay for a good result. Oh and the mild steel collector box was degreased, rubbed down with scotchbrite abrasive pads and sprayed with black VHT aerosol paint.

Jon.

 

[kamesama980]

Holy crap about the pipes polishing up, I'll have to write that one down.


This weekend I got around to tuning up the VX and changing the cables. Got to use my Morgan Carbtune for the first time and man is that thing slick.

 

[Guest]

I've been working on the G (Baglady). Creating a back rest for my wife to lean against, from salvage yard pieces. Working on the cheap like always. So far between the rack($25), and back rest bar($20), pad (a little small,$5), stainless spacers and bolts ($19.47), and 1/8 scrap aluminum diamond plate ($5.20). Shoot, now that I ad it all together, I guess its not so cheap.($74.67) Oh well, it came out alright for miss matched parts. Still need a few new nuts and bolts, and eventually a pad that is sized right for it. It makes my better half happy for now and we all know if the wife's not happy, neither are we. In case you single guys didn't know that, now you do!:-k

 

[Guest]

New exhaust fitted to the 250T to replace the sorry looking 2 into 1 Micron.
Bought the used headers off ebay and had them shipped to the UK, after a bit of cleaning, paint and polishing they came up nice.
Mufflers are a pair of cheapo megaphones off ebay UK - and they are well f**king loud!
I will attempt to link pics from photobucket, not really sure how it works, here goes...

Before...

Headers...

On the bike...

Thanks for the compliments guys, I used my tried and tested de-rusting/pitting technique.
Take one Stanley (utility) knife blade and gently fret away at the worst of the rust at a very shallow angle a bit like scraping away old gasket, next I worked on it with Britemax Easy Cut metal polish and a lot of elbow grease, finally a good coat of Meguiars NXT metal polish and yet more elbow grease and buffing to a really good shine. I ended up with very achey arms and sore fingers but it's a small price to pay for a good result. Oh and the mild steel collector box was degreased, rubbed down with scotchbrite abrasive pads and sprayed with black VHT aerosol paint.

Jon.

Wow that is one seriously nice 250!!! Awesome job, especially on the pipes!!

And to think all I got done was painting the battery box cover and Acewell speed sensor bracket

 

[Jon Boy]

Thanks Pete, I am quite pleased with the bike now, it's my daily ride whilst restore job.
Quite a few new and decent used bits and a DIY rattle tin paint job has brought it on from when I got it...

 

[Guest]

Thanks Pete, I am quite pleased with the bike now, it's my daily ride whilst restore job.
Quite a few new and decent used bits and a DIY rattle tin paint job has brought it on from when I got it...

Excellent, looks like you had a pretty decent starting point too! Good work

 

[rubline]

I wrenched on my 82 and got 2 brand new tires on. Bring on the warm weather

 

[Gssheller]

Windjammer w/ Piaas and...

Windjammer w/ Piaas and...

Reinstalled the windjammer today. I had to remove it because the windshield broke in two a couple weeks ago. My original thought was that I was going to take it off for the summer, but I seem to enjoy riding more with it on. At least with the weather still being fairly cold...
While at it, I decided to install some small, superbright Piaa driving lights that I had installed on my Jeep. I also installed a 12 volt charger for my phone, etc on the long, multi-state rides I am wanting to go on in the future.
The new windshield should be here tomorrow and I'll be ready to go!!
Here are a couple obligatory photos:

 

[jeff.saunders]

Dusted the 74 Z1A off today, put fuel in and gave the bike a quick checkover and a short test ride... tomorrow it'll be used to go to work.

Over the weekend, I need to get my ratty GS1000 running again so I can use that as a commuter bike.

 

[Monty]

Thanks for the compliments guys, I used my tried and tested de-rusting/pitting technique.
Take one Stanley (utility) knife blade and gently fret away at the worst of the rust at a very shallow angle a bit like scraping away old gasket, next I worked on it with Britemax Easy Cut metal polish and a lot of elbow grease, finally a good coat of Meguiars NXT metal polish and yet more elbow grease and buffing to a really good shine. I ended up with very achey arms and sore fingers but it's a small price to pay for a good result. Oh and the mild steel collector box was degreased, rubbed down with scotchbrite abrasive pads and sprayed with black VHT aerosol paint.

Jon.

Damn man. That is an awesome job. I think I might have to try this. Although mine just has rusty crap at a couple welds it looks like.

I didn't get to wrench on my bike. ****ing shop is taking their sweet time with it. If they aren't done friday, I'm going to be ****ed.
But I did go get some new gear. Returned my crappy mesh jacket in for a warm leather jacket. Also picked up a set of warmer gloves. And, the thing I'm most excited about, a set of rain pants. Now I can ride to work in the mornings when it is wet without my jeans getting soaked.

 

[keman]

WAS going to put in the replacement stator from my parts bike, but after inspection, found several burnt windings. New stator and new r/r on order. I did pull the clutch cover to clean the oil sight glass and paint it to match the other covers. Thinking about adding an LED inside the cover to light the sight glass. So, for now she sits once again in partial tear down waiting for parts.

Grrr!