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Finally healthy enough to spend some quality time with my bikes this weekend.

I installed the front the front fender and wheel with new brake pads and black covered ss brake line and replaced the brake fluid.

All the bolts and nuts were badly corroded from the time the bike spent in Florida so I chased the threads to clean them up. 
The paint in the threaded inserts was part of the problem I'm sure.

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Then I spent half an hour searching for the caliper cover for the fender without success.

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I decided to search again tomorrow. 
I started out today by searching for the front wheel.
I had been looking for it for a couple days but unable to find it.
I knew it was in my shop I just wasn't seeing it.
I was able to find it, right where I had looked for it at least once before...
My wife says I suffer from male pattern blindness.
I guess so since I can lose something in an empty paper bag.

When she came out to check on me this evening I told her I was searching for the fender side cover.
She knew immediately where it was, in the house, by my computer.
As usual, she was right. 
Why I had taken it inside I don't remember.  :o

Not that you can tell from these pictures but the Indian on the fender is aglow with the spirit to guide me on my travels:

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I bought an LED light to replace the original non-working socket and bulb.

Now to finish the new exhaust system and go riding!
I have the War Bonnet decal to put on the tank and do plan for a simple black stripe on each fender soon.

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Posted by JagLite

- April 27, 2016, 21:00:35 PM

Hah! No memories, but a lot of greasy finger prints.
That's how I know I've done that job before.
Even if I don't remember doing it...

Posted by CDNRatMan

- April 27, 2016, 16:38:59 PM

are your memories pressed between the pages of a shop manual?

Posted by JagLite

- April 27, 2016, 16:06:01 PM

Hmmm, door you say?
That reminds me, I don't think I have posted a picture of the sign I had made for my door...

The SPD sign that is.
The funny Garage sign I have had for a year or more.
My wife got that one for me.

I was ordering some stickers to put on my project bikes so I chose SPD for the fun of it.
Not a business since I just build projects for myself, but now I have smaller stickers for each project.
The smaller ones are exactly the same, they are 3" wide and the door sticker is 10" (I think)
Memories... how I wish I had them.... (can you hear me singing?)

Posted by CDNRatMan

- April 27, 2016, 12:10:21 PM

like the red door eh!

Posted by JagLite

- April 27, 2016, 12:08:43 PM

Paint it black as the song goes

Posted by tj

- April 27, 2016, 07:50:41 AM

lol awesome!

Posted by JagLite

- April 26, 2016, 20:40:59 PM

As close as we could get it!

Posted by tj

- April 26, 2016, 14:32:25 PM

nice colour!
reminds me of another one...

Posted by JagLite

- April 25, 2016, 16:00:05 PM

I am finally starting to feel better and have some energy and desire to spend time in the shop.
My poor Drifter has been neglected far too long.

Don't remember where I left off...

We like the new tan/creme/beige color much better than the white and I was finally up to putting the bike together.
I only spent a few hours on Saturday and a couple on Sunday but I did get a bit accomplished.

I sanded down the forks and headlight trim rings that were rusting and/or corroded and primed them.
I had planned to shoot the gloss black last thing but when I went to set up I discovered I only have mat black on hand.
Oh, well, it was a good time to stop and not overdo things.

I also went through my stash of NOS Kawasaki cruiser billet dress up items and picked a couple to use.
Of course they are polished aluminum and would not go with the old school no chrome look I like on the Drifter so I sanded them and primed them.

A once piece handle bar top clamp, the indicator light fascia, and the stem bolt cover are all Fire & Steel parts.
Should be Fire and Aluminum, or Fire and Billet I think

I know, I should pull the forks to do a really good job instead of just a touch up on the bike, but it is spring time here and I want to ride!
I will probably have the front crash bar powder painted black next winter so this will be temporary.

Hopefully I will be able to paint the black tonight so it can dry for a few days before I install it.

I also put in new brake pads front and rear, and a new ss black sheathed front brake hose.
Now to get some DOT 4 brake fluid to fill and bleed the system.

Posted by Old Drifter

- April 15, 2016, 13:40:55 PM

Quote from: CDNRatMan on April 14, 2016, 12:53:20 PM
65 WOW that is old........man to live that long would be something........

Yeah if you're lucky! The secret is good beer and young women!!!

Posted by Old Drifter

- April 15, 2016, 11:29:41 AM

Posted by mittico68

- April 15, 2016, 04:52:33 AM

If it is correct the saying that growing old is equal to rejuvenate, you don't have to worry at all... lol..

Posted by DC

- April 14, 2016, 23:04:38 PM

65? Old?

Posted by Troll

- April 14, 2016, 16:17:38 PM

HEY!!!! 65 isn't old, if you're a tree.....

Posted by CDNRatMan

- April 14, 2016, 12:53:20 PM

65 WOW that is old........man to live that long would be something........

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