The bike is just about complete with a couple small things that have to be fixed yet.
Sunjin began sanding one of the side plates on the bike to be ready for painting.

 The signal lights have been giving us some trouble so Alec is dissembling the signal light case so he can fix the problem.

 Eric and I removed the old resonator because with the upgrades we made, the device served no purpose and therefore would just be in the way.

 I also put the signal light covers back on the rear signal lights.

Assignment Part 3

Unceasing the Engine: Unceasing the engine was the biggest problem with the engine. It was something that we all had to think about doing though. We could decide on upgrading the engine as well. One of the options was to bore out the engine. Boring out the engine was a serous consideration which is between the amount of $400 - $600. What Boring out an engine does is increase torque and HP, something that isn't necessary but is nice to have on a bike.  But seeing that our limit of pay was $1000 we decided that it we should just keep the engine stock.



Exhaust Pipes: The exhaust pipe is also something that needed to be replaced. The exhaust pipe cone that was initially on the bike had a whole bunch of holes and was rusted out and was no good to use anymore. We had to make the choice of getting a new exhaust pipe or just a new cone. What we could have done was got a whole new exhaust pipe 2-1 XS performance head pipe set which would cost $215. Or we could just get a XS Performance Reverse Cone Megaphone Muffler which would cost $65. The conclusion was to just get a cone and wash the rest of the pipe. We saved $150 and the exhaust pipe looks good as new.

 today i sprayed the prime on the gas tank

 and eric tightened the oil bolt

 ben was trying to figure out the hand signal

and lastly steffan was fixing the spark plug

Today was the last real day of work before the Christmas break. Despite having a short bench Eric the Doc and myself kept our noses to the grind stone and continued to move forward on the reconstruction. We checked some of the electrical connections fixed the some of the problems. We also began tensioning the chain and truing the wheel. Its been a great semester and with only two weeks left after the break we have a lot of small things to finish up but have the end in sight.  

We almost there y'all!!!!

 Today the boyz worked very very well. Its almost a reality that we can say "the bike is finished". Steffan and I finished synching together the exhaust pipe to the bike. Ben did some great electical work but there is still some to be done. Like putting the new blinker lights in and making sure the starter will work fine. over all everything looks great. Cheers

Internal Shadow Day

On Friday, it was internal shadow day at rockway. Four grade 8 students came in to shadow us and what we were doing on the bike. Sunjin and his shadow continued his work on the brakes and attaching them on the bike. 

Eric continued to clean and attach the exhaust pipes onto the engine block.

Steffen and Jackson worked on reattaching the chain, cleaned the mounting bolts and polished some chrome components.

The new battery came in today, so Noah and I filled up the battery with the acid provided. While we waited for the air bubbles to escape from the acid, we attempted to get the headlight on the bike.

Alec Dawdy

Auto Assignment Part Three

Front Forks

Upgraded fork damper valves   

drill holes in the cylinder fork

i did this by making a center punch on where i wanted to drill then started drilling with a ⅛ bit

then moved up to ¼ bit i had to drill a total of 4 more holes in each cylinder fork

had to buy an put on the upgraded fork damper valve had to put the new fork damper valve on in between the cylinder fork and the spring

For this we had to buy the upgraded fork damper valve  

Needed new fork oil

after i finished putting the seal on the outer fork pipe and putting the inner fork pipe with the upgraded cylinder fork in with the new spring then screwing in the fork drain bolt i was able to put the fork oil in and then put on the top bolt to close the fork

we had to buy fork oil and new seals and dust seals

Gas tank and seat

Gas tank

had to remove gas tank

sand it i had to sand it with 220 grit then 320 grit then 600 and then 1000 grit sand paper and now the last thing i need to do for the gas tank is to paint it and put it back on the frame

had to buy more sand paper  

Seat  

we bought a an scrap seat to use it for extra or missing pieces once i removed the seat i had to take the lever from the scrap seat and put it on the new seat i also had to use some spare screws from the scrap seat by the end of mixing and matching pieces we had a seat that was in very good shape

bought a scrap seat and the only problem i ran into was that one of the bolts broke in the seat so i had to drill a new hole