Ressurection shuffle - bit more progress

So, it was time to give my XJ650 a strip down and lavish some lovin on her, ahem

Stripped the bike down to a bare frame in anticipation of a powder coat, was fairly shocked to find under the rear mud guard (specifically under one of extrusions that grip the frame) of rust hole that had developed a stress fracture. Crap, id been doing a ton on this bike less that 12 hours before the strip down! Cut out the rust with a dremel and patched and welded over the fracture, I've cut the extrusions off the mudguard and will reattach with tie wraps as suspect water has been held against the frame by them.

Went to get the frame powder coated by the guy I know who does coating when his boss isnt looking cash in hand to find he'd been fired for precisely this, oops. Found a can of black synthetic enamel in my paint store, stripped the frame bare with paint stripper and a knot wheel and sprayed up, synthetic enamel dries rock hard so it should be up to the job.

I've been collecting bits for the rebuild for a while, fitted a pair of remote reservoir rear shocks from a Zephyr and investigated using the fzr1000 front end I snagged from an autojumble largely cos it was cheap (£50 roughly £100 dollars) The fzr three spoke would have looked well uot of place, fortunately the xj front wheel fitted the spindle and with some custom spacers slid in nicely, on offering up the yokes I found the original fzr bearings where hugely oversize to the xj headstock, whipped out the verniers and found the xj and fzr yoke stems and the same diameter so fitted a new set of xj taper rollers and bosh on it went. Used a set of aftermarket adapters to fit straight bars and viola. Even the original xj ignition key fitted the fzr yokes but had to make up some adapters for the clock assembly. Oh yeah fitted some new front wheel bearings as they had developed a little play, not enough to fail an MOT (UK yearly road worthyness test) but while shes in bits might as well.

Bodywork wise I bare metaled the tank and throughly prepped the side panels and tail unit before giving it a coat of high build, a coat of poly base coat in a really dark flame Orange - a modern Fiat colour, before giving that sucker 5 coats of 2k lacquer.

At the moment I'm at a rolling chassis stage as Im waiting for the breaker I've bought the replacement engine from to courier it to me, snagged an xj750 engine for her for a little bit of extra oomph.

If anyones interested Ill bosh up some piccies.

 

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I'm always up to seeing what others are doing with their bikes, post a couple of happy snaps so we can check out the progress on yer bike.

 

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Went to get the frame powder coated by the guy I know who does coating when his boss isnt looking cash in hand to find he'd been fired for precisely this, oops

:lol: Just my luck too. Sounds like you have quite a project underway. Post some pic please. Thanks

 

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Yes, sounds like an interesting project. I'd be interested in seeing how it's going also

 

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edit - have a picture of me, taken over the solstice 2008 at Stonehenge free festival. I'm very soggy and ever so slightly drunk

 

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Wow looks great..

 

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Nice work........I hope to do a complete go through on my maxim some day.
But that looks really great!

 

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I like the look.
If the front fender were behind the forks it would keep the road spray off you.
I know, :roll: I like functional stuff.