Weekly Beauty

I'm finally working on cleaning the engine. I really wanted the engine to be clean and shinny, but decided that would be too much work. I used some engine degreaser, wire brushes and used the air gun to blow out all the dirt. I decided to paint it in high temp gloss black. I haven't decided if I want to polish the edges of the fins. Here is a picture of the engine before cleaning.

It cleaned up nicely.

Weekly Beauty

My husband Dave and our friend Mike decided to use paint remover on this tank, it was a little cold out and instead or removing the paint, it froze. What a nice mess it was. Dave did a lot of the dirty work getting this harden stuff off before I started to use the grinding wheel to get the paint off.

After a few weeks of bondo, sanding, bondo, sanding, sanding some more, I finally was able to put a coat of primer paint on. Then of course I had to do some more sanding, glazing, sanding, sanding, glazing, is this ever gonna end??. Finally after my husband said I was too picky, I stopped glazing and finally put black paint on the tank. Then I started wet sanding, painting, wet sanding, painting, is this ever gonna end, and now I'm down to the clear coat. It still needs a few more coats of clear then it will get a waxing, but this is where its at right now.

Well, I didn't work on my bike this week. My husband and I have been trying to fix our friend Mike's damn bike. He can't seem to get it going. He's so frustrated he took a few nights off, so my husband and I cleaned the carburetors, adjusted the timing on the electronic ignition & adjusted the clutch. After a woman's touch, it started up and sounded awesome. Now the generator is not recharging the battery. The rest is up to him, I'm going back to my bike.