head gasket is in, but after reading the ShopTalk article on head gasket replacement I need a few more parts to get that job done. Have not ordered a new head off of ebay yet but need to do that. Working on the exhaust this week, the akropovic shorty chinese clones came in, slowly working on cutting the exhaust manifolds back far enough where I can get a midpipe in place but not take too much off the manifolds leaving me with no metal to weld the midpipe to. \
Started taking the seat cover off last night before the mosquito's got insane, been a real bad spring for them so far with all the rain we had this last winter, can't stay out to long else I'll get eaten alive. I decided that I'm just going to cut the foam down and reshape it to suit me for nowa, found a link to
http://diymotorcycleseat.com that is helping me get a grip on this work.
I think this $75 seat cover will work when I get all done with, but I wish I could see a side view :
Just concerned with the rise in the middle, seems like it still has a bit of "seat back" allowance in the material
End result should look something like @phoney54's seat mod effort:
And this is really that look that I'm after, just kinda flatten the seat out as much as possible, little rise in the passenger area is unavoidable I'm thinking, but I'll know more when I get the seat foam cut up.
The 7v transistors arrived the other day to fix the fuel and temp gauges on the instrument cluster.
Superbike bars arrived and are installed, used the stock cables and did a bit of rerouting. The front brake master cylinder hose to the brake line splitter (for L/R calipers) on the bottom triple clamp is way too long, but will work now that I've loosened the brake banjo coming off the master cyl and repositioned the direction of the hose.
Had to grind the nubs off on the throttle and blinker assembly's to get the handlebar assembled. Had a "bar repositioner" setup that moved the stock bars up and back an inch or so back towards the rider that I took off that used 2 diff bolt sizes - a shorter pair of allen head bolts for the bottom holes in the top mount cover, and a pair of really long allen head bolts that went through the "bar repositioners" and into the top triple. So I'm short 2 bolts at the moment.
Now I have to figure out what to do with the choke cable, think I'm going to mount it in the frame under the shelter on the left side - right hand for starter button and throttle, left hand for pulling/adjusting the choke. The rounded edges on the choke mount won't fit on the chrome "Interstate" handlebar clamp piece, so I need to move it to a new location.
7" headlight arrives today:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BV4VZV9
Looking at doing an Interstate cast wheel swap down the road, first things first though, get it back on the road.
Need to figure out the neutral light:
https://www.ngwclub.com/forum/viewtopic ... 21#p135721
So after the seat is carved up, then next up is exhaust, and head gasket.
more to come
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