After the restoration: 7200-mile service [page 3]
Thursday, Jan 8, 2004 (continued)
At breakfast a week or so ago the discussion of where to mount the solo seat
came up. I'm looking for a bit more comfort so I moved the seat from
the rear-most position (for heavy riders) to the middle position.
The parts I've removed so far are stuck in a freezer bag so they don't
get misplaced. Tools are put away while I attend to cleaning things
that have come off the bike: the swing arm, the battery tray, the brake
rod, etc. When I get to the air cleaner I see that the paint has worn in
spots and some rust has formed. I sand it down. I'll re-paint.
Jeff came over and kibitzed while I cleaned up the rear part of the frame.
We pulled the transmission out and set it asside. I attacked the yellow
stain on the frame that I think is from hypoid gear oil leaking from the
shift lever seal. The rear of the transmission doesn't show any drip
marks, so any oil on the "tray" is probably from the rear main. There is
so little oil there I'm not going to worry about it now. Since the
transmission input seal looks good I'll leave it alone.
That's all for today. If the weather is nice tomorrow I'll go over to Jeff's and use his paint booth for the air cleaner. If not I'll work on the tail pipes or the transmission shift lever seal. The yellow stain still needs some work, too.
Friday, Jan 9, 2004
I called Jeff to say the weather didn't look condusive to painting and he
replied that the fan in his paint booth went out last night anyway. I'll
take that as a hint that painting is not the thing to do today. Instead
I tried removing the baked on plastic from my exhaust pipes. Most of it
came off. The pipes polished up quite nice (if you ignore the scratches
from where they fell off the bike because some idiot forgot to torque the
fasteners :-)