Thrown together to ride til winter

got a 3 day weekend and worked on the swingarm today. going to have to move my conversion to new years week. got a few financial set backs The washing machine pump is my tire money and the van I just bought needs a heater core. but there is a ton of stuff I can do.

here are a few pics of the initial polishing. really wish i could find my dremel

oh yeah!
that polish job is looking very nice! :woohoo:

leon

My turn to do the dishes!!

oh !!!!!!!!! :ohmy:

no you didn't :silly: .

leon

I read this entire thread like a novel tonight. I am vet excited to see this progress. I am in the process of building my kz750. Good luck and amazing work

shaun86chevy wrote: I read this entire thread like a novel tonight. I am vet excited to see this progress. I am in the process of building my kz750. Good luck and amazing work

Dig a little more, and you'll find many more awesome threads by the amazing talent represented on the forum :woohoo: Enough to keep you on the edge of your seat for weeks on end!
Ram, great work on the polishing! I love the look, but always hated the maintenance of polished aluminum

Thanks shaun86 appreciate the props

and yeah porsche thanks I am kind of the same way but cant afford to have it chromed at this point and i'm a sucker for bling hope to find a reasonable chromer

quick update: my layoff will be official in the next 2 weeks so progress will slow down my laundry list of going nuts on her in the coming months will be limited to a new tank paint job the monshock and wheel assembly.

I finally got a decent camera (really wanted a back tire)so at least the few photos i will post will be better I hope lol

Just a quick update The sun is shining and I am going to get the bike today and start the teardown, at least for my swingarm mod.

I will get an hour or 2 of riding in (I hope) before it comes apart. I am afraid I am gonna have to sell my stock leftovers. I am mor comfortable putting that stuff in the spare bedroom neatly boxed up for future use.

I have a new camera so i hope the new pics will alot better representation of this build

went for a short ride got some pic's of her
before the conversion.
12/31/11





went to my brothers shop to show him my swinger he
shows me come new rouge he got for his polishing wheel


10 minutes later wow!

ramtough_63 wrote: went for a short ride got some pic's of her
before the conversion.
12/31/11

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went to my brothers shop to show him my swinger he
shows me come new rouge he got for his polishing wheel

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10 minutes later wow!

yeah thats shiny!

Man I love that green, my next build is going the new camaro slim green and gold. I do believe you could shave in that arm, that's a mirror on wheels.
Les

Okay so I have the plan. I have to work for half a say Tuesday
it's supposed to be balls cold so I am gonna go pick up my brothers
trailer, since mine was stolen earlier this year.

went and rode it for couple miles decided I was asking for trouble
when I notice the speedomoeter was approaching 100 and I still had a
gear to go the thoughts of wait it has sat for over a month I havent
checked the air in the tires any of the fluid levels and I know the
fuel tank had been leaking

I'm not 20 anymore but damn it likes the cool air!
I pull it into the garage at my Daughters house and figure it
can sit there til I get it to the shop. Its new Years Eve
and my daughter,son inlaw and another couple are going out so
my girl and I volunteer to watch the grandbaby.

My son inlaw has a few tools he is into gunsmithing (got me an AK47
for Chistmas) He was showing me some parts he has made and told
me he would be off week after next if I just wanted to do it there,

he would bring the welder home tuesday and any machining we needed to do
he has some stock in his buddy's lathe and milling machine so why not
It's farm country and what good farm shop doesnt have a mill lathe
plasma cutter welding and fab equiptment. Its. a 2 mile drive from where we are actually doing the work but thats why you make templates right?

after about an hour after they ledt I decided whuy not. went out into the
garage and started taking sh** apart.



removed body work removed header and put in on a Jack



romoving back wheel seemed like a good start so...





removing everythinh ubder the seat electrical and battery box

Then removing front sprocket cover front sprocket and pivot bolt
remove the top shock nuts and it should all slide out



2 yr old grandbaby was helping





taking the front sprocket cover loose yeilded chunks from
somewhere possibly a previous srpocket change front was
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