Shopping

I realized that there were many things that I still needed in order to do much more work on my bike. I really couldn't to to much more without buying anything, I couldn't do any motor work cause i needed a flywheel puller. and i couldn't do any frame or bike work cause I needed to make and mock up other stuff first.

(sorry this picture is sideways)

So I went to princess auto to get some more parts, bits and pieces mostly. First I got some small wire brush wheels for a dremil. I am going to use these to do fine rust removal in small tight or awkward spaces, such as the gas tank or flywheel cover.

I also needed some clamps so that I can clamp the gas tank down. My plan with the two that I got is to weld the gas tank to them so that it can be easily mounted to the frame. the clamps that I got are for 1.25 In. piping which is the size of my frame tube.

I found these odd looking hose connecters, they are meant for air hose. But in my case I am going to custom fit one of them to the bottom of my gas tank, to allow fuel to flow from the tank to the carburetor. My problem with my tank is that I stole it off of an old lawn mower that had the carburetor built into the top of it. So there was no bottom feed for it. I now have to drill a hole in the tank and custom mount one of these to the bottom making my own bottom fed hose attachment.

These bolts I bought at home depot these are going to be used for the seat. For the bike I am going to be making my own seat, because it will be more comfy and I cur out the old seat post unintentionally. These bolts will be used to fasten the seat pad to the frame, and the seat frame to the bike.

This is a gear puller, not that I will be using it to pull gears though. My intentions for it are to use it to pull the flywheel off. This my sound very weird but frankly flywheel pullers are more expensive, and they aren't very different from one another. This one happens to be a 6 In. puller, I'm not sure how they measure it though because it is larger than 6 In. in just about every way. 

Finally I started to get down and do some more work on the bike. This is the flywheel cover, it basically guards the flywheel and directs the air flow, created by the fins on it, towards the motor for cooling purposes. As you can tell it was very rusty so I started sanding it with an angle grinder with a wire brush head. when I finish sanding it will be painted the same gloss black as the rest of the bike.

If you can't tell the rust left permanent damage on the flywheel cover in the form of pitting. although it doesn't look great the pitting has no real affect on the cover after paint besides it might look more like it was powder coated, with all of the ripples.