Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Rust Never Sleeps

XS650 Cafe

I have had my gas tank, seat cowl, fender and battery tray in bare metal for some time now, and they were starting to gather surface rust. So I did some preliminary prep work and blasted them with primer.
This is an intermediate step until I get them painted early next year. 


I got a start on welding the exhaust headpipes. I still need to weld on the flanges that attach the headpipe to the engines, and build the mufflers. But that will be done early spring next year.


I removed the engine from the frame and will be ready early spring next year to paint the frame and clean the engine up.

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