I think this was the first year of this type of front brake. It is a "double leading shoe" drum brake that was about as advanced as a drum brake could be. Still not near as good as a disk brake.
My new handlebars are narrower than the originals to make the bike feel more modern. The grips are also more current and comfortable than the barrel grips that were stock. I'm keeping all the old stock parts so that when I sell the bike the new owner can restore it to showroom stock if he wants:
Orv gave me his old bead blasting cabinet and I have been using it to clean up nuts and bolts. Here is an example of what they look like before the blast treatment:
And after:
Now I can move on to the middle of the bike. I wanted to get the front done so I can roll the bike off my workstand if I need to do any maintenance on my Honda CBR. I installed the battery tray and the breather tube that runs along side the rear fender and out the back of the bike. Then the left side exhaust and passenger and rider footpegs:
Not everything goes smoothly. Remember that oil tank paint job that I bragged about in the previous post?
Just before I started to re-install it on the bike I decided to take a look inside it. Shining a flashlight down into it and taking a peek revealed it was all gunked up with old oil grundge. I couldn't risk that clogging up oil screens or getting into engine parts, so I tried dissolving it with paint thinner and sloshing it around. That was going pretty slow, so I tried gasoline. That cleaned out the oil tank, but ruined my new paint job. I decided to do the job right and get the tank powder coated, so it is out to the powder coating shop, which conveniently belongs to my fellow riding buddy Ross' son Chris.
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