A '75 followed me home today

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Re: A '75 followed me home today

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And lastly, the corner hole was repaired and reinforced with a gusset.
I didn't feel the need to copy the later models gusset and just used some 1/8" 1018 plate.
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1978 GL1000 frame gusset
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Re: A '75 followed me home today

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Some mighty fine welding there by my eye. Not easy work for sure. You are making good progress. Have you considered to rattle can, powercoat or what on the frame when it is ready?
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Fred Camper wrote:Have you considered to rattle can, powercoat or what on the frame when it is ready?
Powder coat gloss black.
The smaller stuff I coat here at my shop, but the frame is too big for my oven. I could use infrared lamps to cure it, but that's a pain.
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I think someone poured molasses in the gas!
Everything is glued solid :shock:
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Yeah, I've seen that same stuff before. :evil:
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Re: A '75 followed me home today

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wog wrote:I think someone poured molasses in the gas!
Everything is glued solid :shock:

eeeewwwww, thats gonna take a bit to get it all out of the passages. If it were mine, I would stick them in a parts washer prior to disassembly and try and get the majority of it softened, if not completely washed out. Mineral spirits (and lots of them) can be your freind in this situation.
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I was thinking more the heated ultrasonic cleaner. Or if you don't have that just boiling them in water or lemon juice. Basically the same thing's one would use to clean the carbs.
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robin1731 wrote:I was thinking more the heated ultrasonic cleaner. Or if you don't have that just boiling them in water or lemon juice. Basically the same thing's one would use to clean the carbs.
I have one of the bowls in my cheapo HFTool ultrasonic cleaner as we "speak".
Not doing much, but I'll run it through a few cycles.
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Re: A '75 followed me home today

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wog wrote:
robin1731 wrote:I was thinking more the heated ultrasonic cleaner. Or if you don't have that just boiling them in water or lemon juice. Basically the same thing's one would use to clean the carbs.
I have one of the bowls in my cheapo HFTool ultrasonic cleaner as we "speak".
Not doing much, but I'll run it through a few cycles.

It may not clean it completely but should soften things up enough to get it apart. Depends too on what you use for a cleaner.
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Been about 10 three minute cycles.
Started with just water, then a mix of water and Dawn dish soap.
Currently using water with Simple Green. Seems the best.


I did spray some carb cleaner it first, but the grime just laughed at it. Now that the top layer of rubber-like slime is gone, I can see little chunks of the orange crust coming off in the cleaner as its working.

Seems like another 6-10 cycles and it will look like new! action1
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Re: A '75 followed me home today

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Keep at it, looks to be working. Lemon juice is a good thing to try as well. But do not reuse it in tea even though it may resemble an Arnold Palmer.
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Re: A '75 followed me home today

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Parts back from the coaters... action1
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Bling!
Bling!
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More bling!
More bling!
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New frame next to original
New frame next to original
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New gusset
New gusset
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Repaired centerstand mount
Repaired centerstand mount
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Re: A '75 followed me home today

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Looks Good! Check the fit of the rear brake lever. If the frame tang was coated, you will probably need to remove the coating. Easier to do it now than when the bike is complete.
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polkadot wrote:Looks Good! Check the fit of the rear brake lever. If the frame tang was coated, you will probably need to remove the coating. Easier to do it now than when the bike is complete.
Good point.
My coater masks any threads, but they are easily cleaned up with a die.
I use brush-on paint stripper for all those areas, 15 minutes later it just hoses off.
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Re: A '75 followed me home today

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Installed the grease zerks and centerstand.
In hindsight, I should have just welded 1/4-28 nuts instead of tapping through. There is enough metal to just tap, but when I went to fill it with grease, I couldn't get my grease gun's nozzle on the 90 degree zerks. I used a washer under each and that gave me enough clearance.
I also could have used 45 degree zerks, but didn't have any here and wanted to get some progress today. :roll:

I used the standard drum brake tool to remove the springs (both centerstand and rear brake pedal). Works great, but I should have know better to use it to install them.
Scratched up the powder coating on the stud. Brake out the touch up paint! shakehands
Next time, I'll go back to using the "pennies in the spring" method to install them.
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installing spring
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