In true ~CrazyJerry~ fashion, we have yet another weekly Saturday evening episode of the Oklahoma Goldwing!
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In the last episode, viewers were left with the in-progress bike sporting a mid-seventies coffin-style gas tank:
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Gas tanks will be visited this week but first, it's onto installing a spin-on oil filter adapter.
The factory oil filter canister is removed and then the engine is flushed a couple of times.
(This was done now since there has been a fair amount of run-time since the head gaskets, etc, were replaced - so an oil change is definitely in order.)
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The feeling remains even after the glitter fades:
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Shown below is the Honda filter canister alongside the spin-on adapter:
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Installation is so fast-n-easy there wasn't time to grab a photo, but here is the final product:
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This should make future oil changes a snap and it more or less blends right in:
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Some additional parts are in transit, among them are new coils to replace the old ones that are cracked and being used in these tests.
In the meantime, there's some planning going on regarding the gas tank. The one that came with the bike is going to be finished (upper and lower halves sealed) but in the event it is a failure, there needs to be other ideas. One that could work would be to use the coffin tank as is, or, use the upper part of the aluminum tank as a "top cover" as it fits right over the coffin tank:
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Another option is to use a completely different tank. The original GL1100 Goldwing false tank would hide a multitude of sins, provide mounting for gauges, and possibly provide a nice surface for a drive-thru extra value meal:
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The dilemma with using the GL1100 factory false tank should be apparent from the photos.
It changes the appearance of the bike drastically.
Not necessarily in a bad way, but differently.
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Putting this in words is not the easiest thing to do, so to help illustrate what I'm trying to convey, I offer the following photo comparisons:
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At some point, this bike will point us in a direction that it wants to go.
Even I can't wait to see how this eventually turns out.
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But in the meantime, there's much more to do!
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~CrazyJerry~