Monday, March 28, 2011

Yet More Gas Tank

Yet more photos of the old gas tank...




Sunday, March 27, 2011

Under the tank

Dave Ashenbrenner at http://legendary-motorcycles.com/retrocaferacerparts.html is making me a tank and needs some photos of the underneath of the existing task, so here they are:







Rear Fender and Wheels

Not much to report recently, just getting bits ready for painting. This is the underneath of the raer fender




Note the nice channel for the wiring loom. Just remove the two bolts, and remove the rear light and disconnect the wiring. The loom comes out nicely in one smooth move.


I removed the front disks, easy-peasy just six nuts and bolts on the other disk:



On the rear wheel, the cush drive rubbers just pull out easily: