Thanks mad.

Here's the progress for yesterday.

Prepped the tank and fender - lots and lots of sanding, a little bondo, lots of sanding, a little more bondo, and still more sanding.

Installed the new clutch and front brake cables. Installed the front caliper and I just have to add some brake fluid and bleed the line and it'll be good to go.

Just got home after spending about six hours working on wiring. God it's tedious, but it's almost done. We finished up by installing the new lithium battery and testing some of the lights and wiring. All the dummy lights work along with the headlight (high beam is blown so I have to go buy a new bulb tomorrow/today). Still haven't wired up the turn signals and tail light. Tried the starter but got nothing - starter didn't make a sound. Don't know what's up with that. We're getting a funky error code on the speedo but I don't know what it means or how to cycle through the codes. I'll try to look that up tomorrow.

All in all a pretty productive day. I took pics with my phone (which usually works well) but for some reason they aren't uploading to photobucket. Sorry. I'll try to sort that out today as well.

 

Thanks. And welcome to the forum.

 

I am a little late to the party, but dam dude, that is looking awesome! Make me want to tear my Bightster apart and I just bought it! Great work!!

 

Thanks Anger. And welcome to the forum also.

ps - Beware. Once you start with mods...you can't stop...

 

Ergo - please don't call it bondo. In the bodyshop world it's mud or filler. Bondo is a brand of body filler. A cheap brand.

 

Hahaha. I am such a noob.

The "mud" was a bitch. I had a couple of smallish areas to do, one on the tank between the speedo and the filler hole, and several small spots on the fender. Took forever to get it semi-right. It ain't perfect. Must have been the cheap bondo.

I apologize for the lack of pictures. Wife took the camera with her and for some reason my phone isn't connecting to the internet so I can't upload the pics I took with it. I'll post them in a few days and update my progress. Everything is primed and ready for the first color coat.

And I forgot to add - I heard from Ozzie today. He stayed up after I left the shop last night at 2:30am and got the wiring pretty much sorted out. Engine turning over, dummy lights work, speedo, headlight (I bought a new bulb today), horn, all working. We still need to wire up the turn signals and the tail light but it looks like we are on the downslope with the wiring.

 

Been painting. Wet sanding and painting. It's a long process, mostly because of the wait time between coats. So here's the status update:

1. Tank and fender have been filled/mudded(??)/bondoed, primed and then two coats of the first color. There are three colors involved - Orange, Black and Grey, just like the stock Nightster. For those who don't know, there's a grey pin stripe between the orange and black, along with grey lettering. So the first color coat is grey. Second will be orange and I'll finish with the black.
2. The side covers have been primed and I just finished the second coat of black.

I'm wet sanding between each coat. It ain't perfect but for a noob I think it's coming along pretty good so far.
Here's everything drying after being primed.


This is after the second coat of grey. Here, the tank and fender are drying outside while I'm inside painting the side covers black.



And here are the side covers drying after the second coat of black.



Like I said, I'm wet sanding between coats. It takes a full two days for each coat to cure, so I'm just waiting now till Wednesday to sand and do another coat.

 

Lookin good Ergo! After all that wiring the paint process must be a rewarding task.

 

looks great man....wet sanding is the key for that water like finish. great job bro!

 

Thanks Wander. Ya, wiring ain't my thing. To look at it, some will say painting ain't my thing either, but at least I understand the concepts of painting, if not the execution.

btw - Talked to Ozzie a few minutes ago. He decided to work on the wiring last night and got everything functioning.