Left side engine cover

The engine cover had seen much better days, it had all kinds of scratches, cracks and the bottom mounting flange had completely sheared off.

My search began on ebay and I found this for $60, but that was too rich for me, I decided to try to fix mine up myself.

One thing that I thought was cool on the ebay cover was that the circle with the Honda logo was polished aluminum, I think originally this cover was all painted on this bike.

So, I got some JB weld and went to work patching up all the cracks, re-attaching the bottom front mounting flange, and sanding and shaping the JB weld areas.

So I sanded and then polished the circle area on the cover, after about 1 hour it was looking pretty cool.  I could have done better but Im happy with the result.  

After polishing i masked and painted the rest of the cover, then after that dried I masked and painted the recessed Honda logo.  I found that masking tape works well to remove the excess black paint from the surface of the cover.  Lay down tape over it, use something flat to push down the tape, then remove, repeated that about a dozen times and most of the surface paint was gone, and the paint in the recessed HONDA logo stayed behind.  

Rear Shocks

Safe to say I have jumped head first into this project again, Im happy to work on it again and put my time and effort into it.

Today I took the shocks apart and cleaned them up and painted them.  I did one at a time, just so I could see a before and after picture side by side, haha.  I think it came out pretty nice, hopefully the paint on the coil springs will last.

I used Duplicolor engine enamel - Chevrolet Orange Red DE1607 for the coil and silver
Duplicolor caliper paint for the shock.  The Plastic isolator got flat black generic paint for plastic.

Next I will fix and paint / polish the left side cover, and paint the right side cover and the cylinder head.  Also I need to paint the wheels since they are currently two different colors, this caliper paint seems to be a great match to the original sliver color.

I found a new original chain guard on ebay and ordered it for $25 shipped, cant wait to get that on the bike.  Looks like the original one was broken off.

The bike has a new owner!

It sure has been a while, so long in fact that there is a new owner to this bike, it is this little guy...

I finally put in an offer on the bike and bought it from my wife's uncle, but its not for me its for our son.  Hes currently only 1.5 years old, but im sure he will love it.

I rolled it out of the garage yesterday and washed it, gave it a kick and much to my surprise it fired up!  I will need to clean out the carb and do some fine tuning for sure.  Im going to start slowly fixing it up, I guess I have at least a few years before the new owner can ride it.

Its going to need some new tires and tubes, its missing some heat shields and chain guard that were missing when I got it.  Also I will need to replace the kill switch and brake lever that suffered some damage when my brother in law crashed it.  A few other little things that will need to be taken care of, just glad its mine/my sons now, and I can put some work and a little money into it knowing it will pay off in the future.

He's pretty good with a wrench, in fact he pointed out that dad had the rear shocks mounted upside down...oops!