[Gambler]

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got the wheels done(best as I could) lot of corrosion, so I clear coated them after painting. before..

 

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after, two coats of black and one clear.(yes, she who tickles my fancy taped them off for me)

 

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started on the carbs, and found this.

 

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also. drilled out the idle mix screw holes and found every screw at a different setting.

1=1/4 turn out

2=2.1/4 turns out

3=0 turns out(tight)

4=1 turn out.

makes you wonder. but the inside of the carbs looks clean

 

[Ruaidh]

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I've loved reading this string. Almost makes me, the biggest motard here, feel like I could do the same.

 

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skins today, installed the forks also. metzlers front and rear.

 

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installed the ign. switch and self canceler too.

 

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Ruaidh wrote:

I've loved reading this string. Almost makes me, the biggest motard here, feel like I could do the same.

you could, just take lots of pics. helps with the reassembly especially if you get interupted alot(such as work, girlfriends, fires on the freeway two streets over with embers landing on your shake roof)(that happened tonight) got a bad pic of the flames just popping over the roof of the apartments two street over. started when someone in a motorhome drove down the freeway with a tire off the rim, and the sparks from that started a stretch of the vegetation on 17/880n on fire.

 

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Suggestion.. Take that front air deflector off and paint it flat (or gloss) black.. that's how they came from the factory..

I admire your work on this bike.. My 86 Aspy looks just as clean and bright.. These old 1200's are (in my eyes) the most beautifully designed and well built of the GoldWings.

I am impressed!!! :cooler:

 

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Renegade wrote:

Suggestion.. Take that front air deflector off and paint it flat (or gloss) black.. that's how they came from the factory..

I admire your work on this bike.. My 86 Aspy looks just as clean and bright.. These old 1200's are (in my eyes) the most beautifully designed and well built of the GoldWings.

I am impressed!!! :cooler:

thanks, you can't tell from the pic, but it's painted flat black.

 

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getting closer.

 

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Thishas turned out to bea great thread, I don't know how I didn't get to look at it until now. Well done Gambler. :clapper:

 

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wingnut wrote:

Thishas turned out to bea great thread, I don't know how I didn't get to look at it until now. Well done Gambler. :clapper:

thanks. should be running soon.

 

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Gambler wrote:

getting closer.

I'm shocked, is that a rusty clamp on the engine guard?

 

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exavid wrote:

Gambler wrote:

getting closer.

I'm shocked, is that a rusty clamp on the engine guard?

no, bad pic, thats something hanging down.

 

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oh.......and ........SHE LIVES...........

 

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ahhhhhhhhhhhh

 

[BobbyW]

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Gambler;

Thanks for taking the effort to post your restoration. Its very inspiring. :clapper:

 

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Gambler wrote:

ahhhhhhhhhhhh

:clapper::clapper::clapper::clapper::clapper::clapper:Man I can feel the Vibes!!:clapper::clapper::clapper::clapper::clapper::clapper:

:jumper::jumper::jumper::jumper::jumper::jumper::jumper::jumper::jumper::jumper::jumper::jumper::jumper::jumper::jumper::jumper::jumper:

:toast::cooler::band::bananas::banana::alco::blackstuff::cooler::goofygrin:

 

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thanks for the support guys, I'm not done yet. I was just getting antsy not knowing how the motor would run, so I hung the fairing on with one bolt and connected the wires so the gauges would work. started right up, 1st and second work, so thats good news. next is rebuilding the calipers and getting the brakes to work.



also have some plastic repair to do to the trunk, and of course remove more rust and corrosion.

I will keep posting pics 'till it's done, or you guys get tired of it.:action: