85 FJ1100 refurbishment/custom

[Joe Sull]

I gut ya scratch'n your head hah. "What the hell is he do'n!"

I want the whole thing RED. I'm sure that the different shades of red will break it up enough that it won't be a solid ball of red. I want to do something for decals though.
From the benining, I have planned on this decal. I will have this on the bike.

On the sides I haven't made up my mind but I'm thinking of having a member here, that makes decals to make me one that says "CHERRY BOMB" just as the "Yamaha" would look and put that on the tank. Maybe the old Cherry bomb sticker on the side panels. After I get it done I see what it needs.

I like this one to;


Simi_ed, I'm going to paint the frame and lines then I going to spray the cooling fins enough red so there not black. Kind off just a dusting. I could touch the edges of the fins with red using an sponge.

[simi_ed]

If you're spraying the fins, that's the problem.  Maybe do the sponge thing on the leading edges, but no more.  Unless you're going to a much larger cooler, or making a showbike that you're not going to ride.

[Joe Sull]

Oil coolers are nasty critters. You hold them like a dead rat mostly.
Cleaned, sanded and cleaned again.



It red, I don't know why it looks orange. I painted as much as I dare to. I took a sponge
and dabbed it on the fins. Good enough! Not much I could do with it. Dabbing the springs
over the oil lines make a nice effect.



I painted these thingys

[Joe Sull]

I did the repair on the lower case blind plug cover today. I made the outer form months ago when I was stripping the engine. The paint is pretty much cured and in a nice warm spot. I made the form out of a can and scribed the profile of the case as it is around the cover area.
This pic shows the damage and were I needed to build up.



I lucked out because the lower screw boss is still there. some material it scun off, probably 1/8" so I wanted to get some epoxy on top of that too. Next pics show the fit of the can. Its pretty good.





I oppted to use play do for my backing form.



There's with the can mounted.



Took some wax paper and rolled it up for the screw hole. After I put it in it unrolled and expanded. I took a small wood dowel and pushed that into the center.



And here it is potted with j b weld. If I did this with the engine in the bike, I would have done it completely different using the 2 part puddy.



One thing that totally escaped me at the time was putting a mold release on the can. The can is coated with a plastic that I can heat and get it to release. Maybe!

[simi_ed]

Joe, I think you pretty much nailed the cooler painting!  Maybe a touch more than I'd do, but the springs do give a look.  Good job!

Ed

[Joe Sull]

Thanks Ed. If ya look at it from a few feet away, you kinda get an overall, red look to it, I guess.

[keand3]

Thanks Ed. If ya look at it from a few feet away, you kinda get an overall, red look to it, I guess.

Joe, I must say, I can't wait to see it all bolted back together. 
It's tempting to start shipping parts to you to have them painted 

Cheers

Ken

[Joe Sull]

Those are kind words Ken, thanks. If there wasn't 5000 miles between us, I'd say send your parts on over.
I could use the work.
I talked to a friend of mine this morning. A friend I also work for in the winter clearing his fire roads. Generally, cutting back and burning. He got a burning permit for one month. The last couple of years, this work has started getting lean on account of it's no longer politically correct to open burn. We were always able to get burning permits for the entire winter but now we have to chase people down, corner them and shame them into writing out a permit. And here's why...
"Well to do" city people come here to retire early and have nothing to do but work on there town politics. Throw there weight around at town meetings and show us dump hillbillies the correct way to do things.

Ah.. Were was I..
I got my wiring harness done today. Stripped off the old tape and used the fancy new silicone tape. Seems to me, I've used it before. I can't remember when. It's hard to do at first and then you start gaining. Red, of coarse!



Ran in to a few splices were 2 wires go to 1. with tape over the splice. At first thought was to leave good enough alone, I decided to take a look and see how they made the splice.



They crimp them together. I wanted to make sure that they didn't just twist them up.
Cheers!

[keand3]

Believe me, with the prices over here, i would save a fortune shipping them 5000 miles for paint. 
You won't even know what my fairing ended up on.... 
But moditus dosn't care about cost 

[keand3]

My quess is that you are going for some red bolts as well? 
http://www.pro-bolt.com/alloy-engine-kit-yamaha-fj1100-1200-red.html#.UuUCrrTKxaQ

[Joe Sull]

Hey Keand3, Those are nice. Unfortunately, I will be using the poorboy version. Red paint!
Those bolts would look excellent on a brushed aluminum motor.

I got my repair to the blind plug cover completed. The outter form (can) almost fell off, thank you! The ridges on the can working with the way I scribed the bottom, held it in some. The sides pealed away and with a little wiggling, it came off slick-as-use-please.
I sanded the flange area and got a good match to the cover and sanded the sides so it would take paint.





I still have some touch ups to do. I'll probably use some silicone for a gasket cause there is some waviness were the cove matches up. The red paint seems to show orange when it's wet under light.

[keand3]

Those are nice bolts but pro-bolt ain`t cheap..
The poorboy version is often just as good

Keep those red pictures coming, Thank you 

Cheers
Ken

[FJ_Hooligan]

ALUMINUM bolts?  Uh, no thanks!
That sounds about as bad as a 520 chain conversion on an FJ, or aluminum sprockets....

[keand3]

ALUMINUM bolts?  Uh, no thanks!
That sounds about as bad as a 520 chain conversion on an FJ, or aluminum sprockets....

I agree, aluminum is not my prefered choice either
The link was suppose to linkt to the SS bolts

Ken

[Joe Sull]

Red pics? I got red pics today! Let me go get'm.