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thx,
goo

We'll without taking it apart,,,,, you could use a dremel or wire brush on the cylinder base anchor nuts and head bolts to bust the rust off. Or you could go ride the snot out of it and get a bunch of road grime all over it and call it even.

In place:

-A GOOD dremel type rotating tool (you'll eat 4 or 5 Harbor Freight types)
-two dozen or so tiny brass wire wheels
-two dozen or so tiny buffing wheels
-several small pots of polishing compound
-Eagle 1 or other similar polishing wadding
-several lint-free towels
-several days of steady, laborious, monotonous, fatiguing detail work
-Remove and replace fasteners one or two at a time and spray with Rust-O-Leum cold galv, or use a small Caswell plating kit (some would say this leads to an early death)

OR

-Remove main parts and polish on a proper polishing wheel (not quite as laborious)
-Mask and paint cylinders with Rust-O-Leum (or not)

The problem then becomes: "Hmmmmmm... now the pipes look tatty"; replace pipes
Then, "now the wheels look dull" remove & polish or replace
etc., etc., etc...

Put some gas in the tank and a babe on the seat and ride!

Russ


OK, maybe you were looking for something a little more constructive. How about buying some high temp silver paint (brake, stove, or other), cleaning up the barrels a bit with a wire brush and then just brush on some high temp on to those fins and the rusted bolt heads. Cheap and easy.

I think the barrels look much better painted black, that's what I done to mine, ('73 Interstate) I know it's not correct for the year but i'm not a purist!

Dave.

Dare I suggest a proper 750 air filter or a pair of velocity stacks instead of that squashed K&N thingy ?

I think it look good the way it is. Dirty, cleaned or polished, they all look pretty to me.

Together and running is a good look.

Looks fine. Other than cleaning it once or twice a year I would just ride it.

Beyond just surface finishing to really pretty up requires pieces in hand with rat tale files and narrow cold chisel and square end drifts to knock out the over casting in head and barrels which both reflines close up impression but aids air flows as some spaces that should be open deep in are crusted over by metal crusts. The head is a darker allow and can not be made to shine silvery like covers and cases. Phos acid, Calcium, Lime, Rust bath, or oven BBQ and kitchen clearners do a good job on cases but not head other than clean off too its dullish gray darkness.

If ya want to get fancy beyond the ordinary look into the DIY weapon and engine coatings that both resist elements but assist heat radiation.

I will suggest to you the same thing I have told my daughter for years. "You look beautiful the way god made you, just take care of yourself, and enjoy life".

Ha Ha Ha, best wishes on stffling the urge of primping and preening nature of humans but hope she and our bikes don't get surgery that removes their best character into artificial-ness.

Right Hobot.......we don't want our bikes, or our daughters to end up looking like Chapmanmd's frame.

pvisseriii wrote:I think it look good the way it is. Dirty, cleaned or polished, they all look pretty to me.

+1

one thing would give a VERY high priority to is replacing that head steady as the early ones are WELL known to break and no I don't want to start a war on which one is better

goo wrote:
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thx,
goo