General Tech What did you work on Today?

[Gravy]

clean

 

[boogie_4wheel]

Head swap.
Short story... My wore out, high hour, hard shifting bottom end got swapped for a 'newer' case. The original owner of my 1996 400 built 3 of them; one for him (#1), one for his brother (#2), and one that my father in law got (#3). All 435cc, hot rods crank, oversize exhaust valves, HD valve springs, some other stuff that I can't remember, and the one the OE kept for himself he extrude honed the head and added a Mikuni Flat Slide Pumper. Over the years he did some testing for FMF and some penciled details for a custom regrind cam. Fast forward to a couple years ago and I ended up with bike #1 after it changed hands a few times, sat outside for a while, one owner botched a carb rebuild. 2 rides in to my ownership I had a valve stick open. While fixing that, the OE gives my FIL the regrind cam that he came across in storage (they live 5 min from each other in Page, Az). So I add the cam and yeah, it's sweet (gives my buddy's 500EXC a good run). During all this time, bike #2 never gets ridden by the brother, it changes hands a few times and my FIL's brother ends up with it for his son and it gets parked at my FIL's. The plan was to make #2 street legal, but the son never comes over to work on it, it sits, almost gets sold twice, and ends up in a storage unit at my FIL's other brothers. All that make sense?
Fast forward to April this year. Busy BSing with the OE (is in his upper 70's and runs a XR650R and Husky 450, he's telling stories about jet boat racing, setting records in a NA 327ci), and he says that I screwed up; I should have never bought bike #1, I should have bought bike #2 because of the use that #1 got. So I get to asking around and find out about it just sitting in storage. I offer to purchase from my FIL's brother saying that I want the engine out of it, and he says he doesn't have any plans for it and to take the bike home with me and swap out the parts that I want, and then bring what is left back to go back in storage.

So I got a free new bottom end that I'm swapping heads on But I gotta return a wore out running bike. It is fun bragging about having 5 Hondas at the house.

Head Shot. Notice difference in intake.

 

[rholbrook]

Very cool. My BIL has a 1984 XR500 that look nearly new. Very few miles on it and he doesnt ride. Would rather play golf but he will never sell it.

 

[bryson]

Very cool. My BIL has a 1984 XR500 that look nearly new. Very few miles on it and he doesnt ride. Would rather play golf but he will never sell it.

Steal it.

 

[rholbrook]

Steal it.

I actually go fire it up for him and ride it a couple of times a year. Its fun to ride and the seat is soooo soft compared to the new ones.

 

[boogie_4wheel]

Steal it.

Yep!!!

Talked to a couple guys last fall while in Moab at a camp ground. They were on a XL500 and XL250. Cali plates. They started 'riding' at Cedar City, were packing everything on the bikes, tents and bags, parts, spare fuel, and were headed for Colorado for a round trip. I had to laugh a little bit because the 250 had a little windshield and all I could think was all the drag it was creating. Both were spinning knobbies. I bet those guys had an absolute blast.

 

[Gravy]

Lots of work into that XR.

 

[RogueJeepr]

Finished putting on my rocksliders and skidplate .

 

[MikeGyver]

did some imaginary work

 

[airmanwilliams]

Last night for Father's Day I installed a light strip on my fathers truck he has wanted for some time. It has red for signals and brakes and white for reverse. Next couple days I'll be putting one on the hitch carrier for my sisters wheel chair since it blocks his taillights alittle.

 

[Tan Comanche]

I made a new pot for my palm tree. Woot! Not nearly as cool as machining stuff or fixing dirt bikes (like above) ,but it needed to be done!

 

[bobdog]

Finished setting up gears and made good progress on the truss/ram mount for this.

 

[locknloadfzj80]

Put a new FMIC on the Fox =)

 

[deepthinker]

Well I recently bought a Smittybilt Jeep side steps for my 2001 Jeep Cherokee 4 Dr Sport. I had it installed in a car shop.

 

[jeeper]

We have been wanting to change our landscaping in the front yard a bit. We are going for a river rock area next to the walkway to our front door. There will be a small fountain and some flower pots. We couldn't find pots that fit the look we wanted... We were hoping for something unique, fun, and with personal flare.
So I made a huge steel diamond plate pot

Drawn and cut.. Loving a Plasma!!




One side cut out..




Assembled. We think it turned out well, and will be unique and fun. The pot is 2.5' wide at top, 1' at bottom, and 3' tall. It's big.



I am going to make 2 smaller, straight square pots to go in either end as well.

 

[Tan Comanche]

Glad to see someone else making a pot! I felt a little weird when I posted mine. Hey it is metal...it is manly...even though it will be full of flowers.

 

[jeeper]

Finished the smaller pots this morning. They seem so BIG when you stand next to them. I thought they were almost too big, and would look silly. Next to the house they seem small..

 

[Bart]

They look great. Any smaller and they would look weird.

 

[BlueWolfFab]

Added a kids corbeau seat and rollcage mods in a RZR 900.

 

[YROC FAB.]

Since getting my plasma cutter i have seen the need more and more for a decent set of saw horses so i fabbed these out of stuff from the scrap bin. They are 4' wide and 3' tall.