lil' things, lil' things

I did a final cleaning of the fuel tank this weekend, poured two gallons of phosphoric acid in to the tank and let it sit overnight. I would have to say that between the electrolysis method and the acid baths the tank came out to be very clean; I would also never recommend using BB's as an abrasive media, they are just way to hard to get out of the tank.



I put the new finger screen on and installed the fuel selector in the tank, after installing a new 7/16 dia. fuel line I was able to fill the tank with gas. The selector showed no signs of leakage until I turned it to the on position, I then began to get a steady stream from the center of the selector but that quickly turned in to a seep and     after a bit I had no more fuel leaking from it.



The tires were flat and so I had to give them a shot of air, but after that, with a few kicks the NS started up and drove around the neighborhood several times. The pictures are a bit deceiving as the tank is not permanently installed, I will have to remove it to put a new air filter in and install the breather cover. Running the bike around the block without the cover made for a pretty throaty sound from the air intake; and its been a while since I’ve ridden this bike, but I had to get in to some pretty high revs to get the bike rolling, about 3000 RPMs or so.



Exhaust Plumbing

                                                          Once the bike was underway it seemed to be fine; I never made it higher than 2nd gear going around the block. The bike also begin to settle a bit with the amount of exhaust it was creating, but the two lower exhaust pipes had some oil seeping past their seals, especially the lower right one.






So it runs and can get in motion, now it's down to a bunch of little things. I need to change the gear box oil; I should have done that prior to running down the road maybe but I don't think it will make much difference. I need to tighten those exhaust pipe connections, possibly make some new gaskets. I will need to find some foam to make an intake filter out of and put the airbox back together; then find all of the scattered bits and pieces, tighten up hardware here and there and then....get some new rubber put on it. There'll be a new video of the bike in motion on the blogs main page if anyone would like to take a look.