Nigh-Thawk Day 20

The big day is finally here! I snuck a preview of the color into the last post I made. It is a metallic Blue. I gave each piece three coats and then three coats of clear. I didn't sand between any coats. I know, I'm lazy. I did manage to put a pretty cool little accent on the fender struts, though. Not to bad for a home garage paint job. It came out a lot lighter than I had thought it would be, but I'll live with it. After having removed my tail section so many times I finally got plugs for my turn signal wires and my license plate light. Much easier to assemble and disassemble. I've going to give it an oil change today, as well, because my oil filter bolt was stripped out for the first one that I did. Now that I found a new bolt its time for a new (much over-do) filter. Well, that's all for now! Time for a ride!

Nigh-Thawk Day 19

So, after procrastinating through the winter I finally began my body work and paint prep!  I started with the front fender because I know there are a few of them still laying around the shop. Now, because I waited so long and I started on a whim one day, I decided to spray bomb the bike to the best of my abilities. I sanded the front fender with 80 grit to remove some deep scratches. I gave it 3 coats of primer and sanded it with 120 then 600. Since that seemed to come out pretty well I pulled the side covers and started on them. They had factory stickers on them that just did not want to come off. So, I sanded them off with 80 grit paper and scuffed the rest with 120. 3 coats of primer for them as well and then did the whole cover with 120 and 600.
Now feeling determined with all of the work I had done I decided to get started on the big job.  My tank... Of course, the tank had the same factory stickers the side covers did (cheap ass 80's paint jobs...). Now the tank also had a lot of spots of rust on the top that I had spray bombed over before I started riding it last year. So, I sanded the stickers off and all the rust spots with 80 grit. The side of the tank orignally had Honda emblems which had brackets built into the tank. My solution for this was to sand all around the brackets down to bare metal and Bondo over it. More to come!