Hi Ken very cool !! Can't wait for your first road trip in the spring ! Wishing you and your hidden apprentist wife😎 and family a great season and fun Christmas ...Ralph West Coast BC
Hey Ralph! Don’t jinx it!!! Hahaha. As it looks now, I just have a lot of little things to complete as the chrome plated aluminum parts are all done. The main fuel tank has to be repainted (just the dark red part) so I’m hoping for a spring completion. Keeping my fingers crossed. All the best to you and your family too.
Yeah!!! I was off work for the better part of the summer and I was able to stay focused. The videos are a bit behind the progress and the chrome plated aluminum parts are pretty much all done now. Hope you’re making progress on your projects too!
@@BikeFromTheBrink I wish you well...hope you get the shoulder and the bike sorted out asap. Loved the duck videos - had a day off here at work and got quite the chuckle. That was really cool.
Thank you!! The chrome parts are all finished and they will be presented in the next video. The chrome parts that are steel survived quite well with just minor corrosion - they were cleaned with mild acid and rust remover then polished. All of the chrome plated aluminum parts were in really bad shape. They have all been restored and that video will be completed and uploaded in about 2 weeks. The side covers will be a nice surprise.
Nice ken! I agree about the carbs but I switched to Mikuni flatslides and they are so much easier to install! I messaged you a while ago about my indicators but forgot to let you know they're fixed now.
Hey Donny!! Yeah, I've heard that. I really wanted to keep this one as stock/OEM as possible. Maybe if/when I get another one (I'm thinking 1986) I would do some improvements like that. The service manuals say/hint to install the manifolds to the cylinders first then squeeze the carbs in. Easier said than done - even with the engine out. I found that doing it that way is asking to scrape the crap out of the carbs and cylinder fins. Not a lot of room there at all but better than a lot of other bikes!! And great to hear the indicators are fixed!
@@KensWorldRestorations Ooh new project would be great, more vids! Yeah I installed the old carbies one boot on, one boot off. It's got a lot more room that an 80's Honda vfr from my experience haha
Helpful thanks...I'm part way thru soda blasting so it's helpful to see how other guys do it. I'm wondering if you rechromed the oil lines & bolts etc or just buffed them up?
I restored as much original hardware as possible. Wire wheel did wonders on all the nuts & bolts and small things like rods, oil lines and stuff like that. The 6" grinder with a wire wheel on one side and a Scotch-Brite style pad on the other side was my most used tool so far.
I've struggled with that too. There's only one way the coil wires will go without being pulled too hard. Check to make sure your coil wires (from the ignition module) are coming in between to two coils and that the boost sensor wiring/vacuum line are routed the right way. There's only one way to do it - any other way will cause the cover to be stressed. Even if one of the coil wires ends up finding its way above the coil, it will make it lopsided.
I was thinking about that actually. It came down to the fact that the engine wasn’t ready in time. Thanks for the comment - nice to see how others do things like this.
