The first being that it had a hard time starting, and the valves needed to be adjusted. I adjusted the valves with help from Kelly (it was a learning expirence for him as well). Got those adjusted, and the bike starts better now. The next thing was cleaning up the bikes appearence, Using some mothers polish, and some diesel fuel and a brush, I cleaned up all the corrosion, and polished the frame.
Brushed and polished the shift lever, cleaned the carb, new air filter, new fuel, new oil, new trans oil.
I decided (out of boredom) that it was time to fabricate my own parts. A lot of bikes have skid plates which is a thin guage sheet of aluminum, that is shaped along the bottom/front of the frame, in order to reduce damge to the frame and engine when clearence is compromised.
I first made a template with cardboard that replicated the area I needed to cover.
I traced the template on to a sheet of Aluminum, and started cutting.
I drilled holes for ventilation, and punched them out larger with a greenly hole punch:
I needed to bend the sheet to confoprm to the shape of the frame, so i used the tanks of my welder, and a rubber mallet, and finalized the shape:
I used a 3m pad on my pnumatic die grinder, to take off the edges, and give the plate a brushed look:
I cut a piece of aluminum bar stock, drilled and tapped holes with threads. this is on the top side of the frame, and allowed me to clamp it to thew frame. I drilled two holes in the plate, and recessed tthe holes for the tapered flat screws:
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