A Final Accounting
Garden Of The Gods Pikes Peak
So I am mostly done, since it seems that this paint job is a never ending time of fixing drips, scratches, redoing messups and well there are plenty of mess ups to fix yet. However the bike is back together and running after a bout with not starting and replacing parts. So I figure I put about 120 man hours into it this winter here is the final accounting
- Replaced fork oil
- Replaced fork seals
- Replaced wheels
- Powdercoated wheels
- Powdercoated rear swing arm
- Replaced swing arm axle
- Replaced all swing arm bearing bushings dust covers
- Replaced chain sprockets
- Replaced stator cover, the gasket, fixed oil leak
- Rewired accessories moved all forward to make more underseat space
- Fixed busted plastic plastic welded cracks and dedumbo the front signals
- Replaced exentric hub bearings
- Replaced wheel bearings dust covers
- Rebuilt rear brake caliper new bolts, seals, bleeder bibs
- Painted mirrors
- Painted frame part of it
- Painted plastics
- Took tank to the bare metal and repainted
- Replaced tank gaskets, vent hoses, fuel hoses, fuel filter
- Rebuilt Ohlins shock
- Powdercoated rearsets
- Powdercoated pegs
- Powdercoated passenger hangers and pegs
- Rewired signals
- Replaced dash lights with LEDs
- Replaced fuel hoses cleaned and rebuilt thottle bodies and fuel rail new seals on injectors
- Replaced exahust studs, replaced copper exhaust crush seals, new seals in the down pipes, drilling out broken studs was a bitch thank goodness for carbide drill bits taps!
- Sanded and refinished stainless Staintune exaust muffler
- Installed new rear cargo mount from Kanadian Ken the beefy version
- Cleaned fuel system with seafoam treatment
- Cleaned fuel injectors
- Rebuilt seat latch mechanism new spring
- Replaced ingition key system, helmet, and tank locks thanks Baileyrock for providing the parts
- New tires
- New red anodized wheel 85 degree vavle stems from Kurvy Girl
- New st1300 tank pad (yet to install)
- New vfrd graphics on the plastics
- New bolts on the brake calipers
- Powdercoated chain drive hub
- New rubber drive chain dampers
- New copper and steel spacers bushings all over
- Replaced head cover gaskets
- Valve check and shim swaps, sanded shims where I had to too for tight vavles
- Replaced coolant hoses that cracked
- Drilled and tapped leaky water pump drain hole
- Replaced coolant
- Painted mirrors
- Installed SAE Mount for battery charger
- Installed steering column powerlet and rear powerlet
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