Ok its been a while, since my last update, so Ill try to make it brief.
Last time I checked in I was working on the front end. The stops were heated and bent back into place, most of the body work finished on the front tins.
The tins were blasted to bare metal, phosphate etched, primed with self etching primer.
Tins glazed, sanded and sealed with DP-90 epoxy primer, I mocked up the front end to check for fit and alinement.
Thats the last pic before all hell broke loose.
The roof was leaking on my little 150 Sq ft shop for a while and since the rainy season would be soon upon us, it was time to to do some serious investigation and repairs. The leaking roof damage was done.......not to mention the hole I left as I fell in up to my arm pits with legs kicking.
To make a long story short. I had to replace half of the roof and 2 two of the walls from rot, with two walls open and a big hole in the roof it rained sideways off and on for two weeks totally destroying my cabinets and all that was left inside the shop and flooding all my parts bins and tools.
So after 4 months of working injured and alone, I added about 100 Sq Ft now I have about 250 Sq feet of work and storage space.
Now I am mostly moved back into the shop, most of the cuts scrapes and bruises are healed, there is still plenty of work left to do on siding, flooring and trim.
I have had time to do some work on the bikes, mostly cleaning the parts that spent a few days in a bins full of water.
The work on finishing the engine rebuild is close to an end. All parts except the SS bolts and hardware are in, FAG supperblend bearings Black diamond exhaust valves and the score of the project so far. Thanks to Mike Raber, A set of NOS Hap Jones, 10:1 +.20 pistons at 1/3 the cost of new repop pistons.
I have been looking for Akront or Excel shouldered rims for some time. Finding old stock Akronts is next to impossible and Buchanan's has been out of stock of the Excel WM3 19 rims for months. This morning I called and asked if they had an expected time of arrival for the Excel rims, Angel had no Idea on the ETA but thought that they had a WM3 19 for a Norton Drum that was never picked up in the back that had been there fore ever.
Rims and Spokes are on the way !!!!!!!!!! Thanks Angel!!!!!!!!
