I'm slow but I'm getting there. Sorry this thread is getting so long. Hopefully it will be complete soon. I got a lot done but won't post a lot of pictures this time. It goes is fits and starts. My brother came down Saturday and helped me a while. We got a lot of it sorted out.
Since I didn't really make a re-assembly plan I've just been putting things together as I got around to them. Since I would like to eventually set it on the ground I decided to get the front end on.
These are the steering yokes assembled in the head bearing. The shiny red thing is my new identification plate. The old one had to go when the frame went for powder coating.
A friend loaned me a professional buffing machine. I just starting to get a handle on how many shiny bits this thing has that needs to be polished. The gadget really takes the work out of it.
My brother and I wanted some idea of how she was going to look and I have never had the new seat on the frame so we gave it a shot. I have the wheels back but we didn't get that excited yet.
This is a shot of the oil tank and front end installed.
We finally got all the primary drive sorted out and the clutch cable installed and everything adjusted up to specs. I sure was glad to get this cover installed.
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This is a shot of what all is going on underneath. That's the new chain on the left. The yellow hose goes to a hollow bolt that feeds oil to the swingarm bushings. It's hell to get to for service and this is a fix I read about to make it easy and to make sure that there is always oil to the bushings. The rings I had made are installed and all the oil hoses are hooked up, the filter on, and the tank has oil. It's sitting a bit while I watch for leaks.
Things should go on pretty quick now. A lot of my time is spent polishing, measuring, checking, adjusting, and just generally backtracking and making sure everything gets done. I will spend some time cleaning up the wiring and getting it on. I'm getting close.
I hope some of you are enjoying this and I really appreciate all the comments.