What did you do for your Buell today?

[njloco]

I'll have to check mine, but it's too darn cold in the garage until next week, gonna get real cold the next few days and nights.
Thanks to both of you for listing this.

 

[Cooter]

I FINALLY installed the heated grips on the Stella the STT that have been dust-ily mocking me on the shelf (can't WAIT to use them), and put on a new mount for my phone/GPS, and fixed the phone charging cable, and added one for the Sena, and re-packed all the spare crap under the seat. Also re-installed the wide band O2 in the rear header and forgot (AGAIN) to take pics and video for that 10 minute job Ready for more tuning, I'm afraid the girl is getting old so I've been shopping for 1250 stuff Maybe I just feel that way after getting off the 185 HP, 400Lb EBR beast? Time will tell if she craps her shiny inside stuff to the outside.

Can you believe I fit 4 wheel bearings, an air compressor, 15' of wire, a folding knife, a small pry bar, a 13/16" deep socket, the Buell tool kit, safety wire, extra fuses, extra relays, a ratcheting screwdriver with bits, a roll of electrical tape, all under the seat?! That not even the stuff I keep in the roll-up tool kit hanging off the side!

I love late nights in the garage:eagerness:

 

[Cooter]

And zip ties ^^^^


#BecauseBuell

haha

 

[njloco]

Come-on out to the east coast, you'd be using those heated grips everyday.

I don't believe you installed the rear 02 sensor on Stella, no pics it didn't happen.

The place's you take Stella out to, you need all those tools !

 

[jl551c]

I FINALLY installed the heated grips on the Stella the STT that have been dust-ily mocking me on the shelf (can't WAIT to use them), and put on a new mount for my phone/GPS, and fixed the phone charging cable, and added one for the Sena, and re-packed all the spare crap under the seat. Also re-installed the wide band O2 in the rear header and forgot (AGAIN) to take pics and video for that 10 minute job Ready for more tuning, I'm afraid the girl is getting old so I've been shopping for 1250 stuff Maybe I just feel that way after getting off the 185 HP, 400Lb EBR beast? Time will tell if she craps her shiny inside stuff to the outside.

Can you believe I fit 4 wheel bearings, an air compressor, 15' of wire, a folding knife, a small pry bar, a 13/16" deep socket, the Buell tool kit, safety wire, extra fuses, extra relays, a ratcheting screwdriver with bits, a roll of electrical tape, all under the seat?! That not even the stuff I keep in the roll-up tool kit hanging off the side!

I love late nights in the garage:eagerness:

Motorcycle version of the Clampetts!

 

[Cooter]

I couldn't call AAA with all these little trees around!

 

[jl551c]

That's one hell of a tree! Sequoias?

 

[jl551c]

Finally finished fixing my rear brake light! Yay! It took me a couple days more than I anticipated. My wife must have pumped that brake 10,000 times with no joy. I finally ordered a Mityvac 8000 and that took care of it in short order. Nothing like tiring out the old lady to get the go-ahead for a new garage tool. Next comes the fork seals, ECM reprogram and installing a Race Muffler.

 

[Cooter]

That's one hell of a tree! Sequoias?

A secret trail through the Redwoods! "Turn left at the Indian Casino, past the park, left across the 7th hole of the golf course and in-between the blue and red houses on the right side" is what I was told to do, by a guy at a gas station 90 miles north of there. Proof positive that you should talk to people at every gas stop when traveling

It was so empty it was creepy, even the branches of the Ferns were bigger than I was! Felt like Land of the Lost

jl551c: You're really going to town on it!:up:

 

[njloco]

Those red woods are beautiful !

 

[Rowdyrod]

Yesterday was a fun day with my son's XB9XS! Changed the rear tire out to a Shinko 009 Raven. Then swapped out the stock turn signals for running LED's (with a new EP36 flasher relay). Next was new ProTaper grips. Then mounted new bar end mirrors. Looking sweet! In the next few weeks I'm going to put on a new drive belt, then I'm going to figure out what to do about the pitiful front headlights. In Tucson it is dark (no street lights) and the stocks are going to cut it. Been reading a few threads, but they are all pretty old.

 

[jl551c]

Got my ECM programmed for my newly acquired race muffler yesterday and started getting it ready to paint. Took a wheel to it. Lots of rust and crap on it, but not too dented up.

 

[jl551c]

Finished painting my newly acquired Race Muffler!

 

[njloco]

Did you use anything special to paint it and which bike is it going on ?

 

[jl551c]

Did you use anything special to paint it and which bike is it going on ?

It's going on the Uly. What I did was scrape off all the rust I could get with a wire brush. Then took a metal wire wheel on a drill to get the deep rust all the way down to the bare metal. I pretty much hit the whole muffler with the wheel. Then I used Naval Jelly rust dissolver over any spots that had the deep rust, sprayed that off with water. Then I used Purple Power degreaser scrubbing it really good with Scotch Bright, that stuff worked really well, sprayed that off with water and did it again. After it dried off I rubbed the whole muffler down with rubbing alcohol. I then primed the muffler with two coats of VHT primer, then 3 coats of Rust-oleum High Heat paint followed by 2 coats of Rust-oleum Ultra High Heat just to make it shine. I still need to cure it on the bike according to the instructions on the can.

 

[wickedchop]

Muffler looks good. I always do stuff like you just did, then I realize that after the cost of paint and other materials and my labor that I could've just dropped it off for ceramic coating for probably less...lol. Nothing like doing it yourself though, makes ya feel good!

 

[Silverrider]

Yea do it yourself, Good feeling . I got screwed on this tire. Just put a new on and balanced it again.

 

[BuellyBagger]

New Ebay airbox decals

 

[Silverrider]

^^^ looking Good !

 

[jl551c]

Muffler looks good. I always do stuff like you just did, then I realize that after the cost of paint and other materials and my labor that I could've just dropped it off for ceramic coating for probably less...lol. Nothing like doing it yourself though, makes ya feel good!

Definitely better feeling to do it by myself. Probably spent 35-40 bucks on paint and cleansers.
Nice decal BB. Really looks nice with your wheels.
SR, did the tire blow on you while riding?