Re: Project Hobber - Bigg's Big Adventure
Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 7:20 pm
up wid ye! Not dead, just got really busy with work as we're expanding and doing a phone system upgrade. FINALLY started the tear down after getting some of the junk out of my garage (as you can see, lots left)
So with a can of lubricating oil and tools here's what I got accomplished this evening;
- highway pegs and mounts off
- chrome carrier mounts and chrome seat bar off
- seat off and battery out (looks perfect other than the fact it's been sitting for 10 years )
- tank off (this was fun, lubricating oil came in handy getting that petcock working again, 5 mins after soaking it worked like new!
- laughed my ass off at air filter cover and tried to remember why the hell I thought this helped.. I dunno..young, dumb and full of stupid ideas. That's not right...
stuff I noticed
- hand break is proper fubar, cable was snapped in accident and bent
- choke is broken too and is the speedo cable
- my god the tires on this are bald... why/how did I drive it like this
- as seen in pic below, I've got oil coming out the side of it on the site she was dropped on. That looks fun.
- a lot of surface rust
- frame seems to be ok on visual inspection, the forks look like they took the brunt of the accident.
- rim looks ok, but will do closer inspection.
So with a can of lubricating oil and tools here's what I got accomplished this evening;
- highway pegs and mounts off
- chrome carrier mounts and chrome seat bar off
- seat off and battery out (looks perfect other than the fact it's been sitting for 10 years )
- tank off (this was fun, lubricating oil came in handy getting that petcock working again, 5 mins after soaking it worked like new!
- laughed my ass off at air filter cover and tried to remember why the hell I thought this helped.. I dunno..young, dumb and full of stupid ideas. That's not right...
stuff I noticed
- hand break is proper fubar, cable was snapped in accident and bent
- choke is broken too and is the speedo cable
- my god the tires on this are bald... why/how did I drive it like this
- as seen in pic below, I've got oil coming out the side of it on the site she was dropped on. That looks fun.
- a lot of surface rust
- frame seems to be ok on visual inspection, the forks look like they took the brunt of the accident.
- rim looks ok, but will do closer inspection.