1977 KZ1000 new life

just checking in.......i thought you would be done by now? lol. gimme a ring....laterz.

Stu Pidasole wrote: just checking in.......i thought you would be done by now? lol. gimme a ring....laterz.

No Joe not done just been lazy as hell. But I did do some bracing to the frame and start on channeling the frame.

Its been a good while since I even looked at the old kaw,so today I had some time so I looked things over to see were the hell I left off, after I looked things over and made a mental note I started to finish up the motor mounts,some frame braceing and a little welding so I can get it ready to send the frame out to powder coat. So I made a rear top motor mount today out of .875 dia .125 wall dom tubing. I turned down two peices of steel to fit tight inside the tubing about .375 or so and left .375 sticking out, drilled and taped them for a 8mm screw, cut some tabs out of .187 plate steel and started welding. Over the next few weeks I hope to get more time in on the old girl, but only time will tell.

Nicely done Mike, so much cleaner than the hack job I did on my upper rear motor mount

that should be plenty stout !
good looking work.

leon

I recognize that fender. Good to see you get back to work on this project.

Today I started working on what to do with the battery and all the other electrical that needs to be relocated. After reading Mfolks post on the Ballistics batteries I went to there web site and did some more reading and got the deminsions of there batteries and decided that I will order the 12 cell evo2. So with the deminsions they gave I added a litle bit for some pading inside the battery box,and made up an aluminum box and started working on the inner fender.

that should do it!

nice.

leon

Seriously, that's a hell for stout battery box Mike! One of these days I'll learn how to weld like that! Superb craftsmanship

porchev914 wrote: Seriously, that's a hell for stout battery box Mike! One of these days I'll learn how to weld like that! Superb craftsmanship

Thanks I'm glad you like it. I think you tig welding is looking good , just remember Slow
Steady
and Smooth

seriously nice welding... i bought my own welder last week on black friday... just a POS starter 115 amp wirefeed but man i wanna weld like that!

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