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I will be trying to check it out tonight.
I am waiting on the rear brake rotor I purchased so I can put the rear wheel back on.
The rear White Wall tires are mounted and balanced and ready to go!

Yesterday after work I took the rear wheel and tire to get balanced. I am excited to be able to say this evening I cleaned the rear wheel and all components.
-mounted the new rear rotor to the wheel
-and reassembled the rear wheel, brake components.

I found a little trick.
I modified by 1 1/2 ton jack with a 12" x 18" x 1/4 steel plate. This allowed me to use the jack as a motorcycle lift. Seemingly a little shaky, but actually stable. The bike does not rock but the base of plate moves a little.
I put the wheel under the bike.
put the chain on.
put the axle in and hung the brake mount on the axle and put in the spacers.
I then slowly dropped the bike until the axle lined up perfectly and just pushed the axle right through.

But something odd. The carb is not leaking now.I guess the float UNSTUCK itself
And it fired right up like it is supposed to.

So, the bike is done and ride-able for now.

Sweet! The WSW looks good.

Thanks PES!

I took it for the longest ride so far after the tire change and new brakes etc... 45 minutes, stop and look it over.
Check the oil temp, seemed a little high 190 degrees.
But it rode great. The front end seems to have a little shimmy to it about 50 miles and hour, but then it smooths out about 60. Other than that I am extremely happy with how it runs now.
I will ride it a couple more times and if everything stays good I think it maybe time to synch the carbs.

I just added some old saddlebags and tool pouch, and played with some image fx. Pic taken in front of an old barn in front of my house.

It is running the best it ever has. But still having issues on startup. takes about 5 minutes to get it to start.

The last time I saw Roberts TBA he had turned into a blacked out bobber. Did he rebuild it?
Ed

Start up issues have been solved.
I pulled the carbs last evening and this morning changed the pilot jets from 42 to 45. Problem solved. It started very quickly even the carbs being cleaned of fuel. Then I took it for a ride after putting it back together and it ran great.
ALL I need to do is an oil change and then it is ready for the first spring ride.

He sold all the bobber parts (flat black tank, and fenders) and he put the tank and fenders back to stock. I still have the gators, and the other stock parts in a box. It still has ALL the other performance mods in place.

I have only seen one picture of how the bike looked when he had it running as a bobber. I would like to see other pics.

I am happy with the way it looks now, except I do want to get white grips to accent the white walls, maybe ape hangers, but I am seriously thinking of repainting it aqua blue with a white racing stripe to match my 67 GMC C2500. I LOVE that color.

That's the one!
thanks Moe

What is so funny is I would have happily bought it like that if that is how he would have sold it. But NOW, I wouldn't customize it that way. I used to love the flat black look, and bobbed fender. But I would prefer extending the fender and having some color on the bike.

Well, I finally got my butt in gear and the bike is finally done minus installing new signals on the front and wiring all the signals and shock mounted brake light.
The color is color matched to my GMC c2500 off the color chart from 1967. Desert aquamarine. I could not be happier.
I picked up a smoothed out fender from maverick customs. It required some sanding to take out some rough spots but it saved alot of time and money versus customizing the stock fender.
Here she is clean and damn near ready to ride. I am just waiting on adapter harnesses for the signals and brake lights. I didn't want to destroy the stock wiring.
Now everything custom can be removed and put back to stock.
At some point I will try to take some decent photos and submit to the members rides.

Moe,
In the 3rd pic from the top - Is that the Friar's orange scoot next to Robert's? If it is as I think - Hmmm..., the irony - The steeds of the founder and the heart sitting side by side.

digin the blue paint man, looks nice. Hmm, except for maybe the rear peg holders but i really like the rest, great job!

love the blue.

The smoothed out fender is what really gets it for me.
Plus I have never seen a painted foot peg bracket so that is why I tried to paint them.

As they say in Italy, " that'sa nice'a!"! I think the paint on the peg hangars are ok. Never seen that done before. Definately one of a kind with that paint. Well done!

WHy thanks.
Well, like I said. I have never seen anyone paint them and so why not. And if they didn't work. I was going to replace the hangers with the chrome ones. I have a suction pinion seat so I have to keep the hangers on for my wife.