Monday 20 May 2013

Getting close

We are nearing the home stretch on this puppy.

As I've said before, my front wheel was a little wobbly.  Not straight enough to pass a safety.  Luckily I have a spare one on the other bike.   I got the gents at the Honda dealership test it and it proved fine. 

Here it is getting painted.



Put the new rubber on it and there you have it.


I've mounted the solenoid with its bracket in the battery box.


With the fender liner gone I made a little shield to keep stuff off of the wiring.






I am also missing the rubber bit of the shifter, perfect opportunity to make something different.


You can see from this photo all I have as a little metal nub.



I used an old wrench, some very small copper pipe and some Shoe Goo for that non slip rubber coating.  Not bad.


The rectifier is going under the seat pan so I fabed up a bracket for it.  I bought a reciprocating saw to do the job.  Jeez that was too easy, I should have bought one of these a long time ago.


The paint has been set sanded and now I'm carefully buffing it. 

About half way there.