The front end of Project 18 is coming together. With the rebuilt forks in place the repainted wheels are mounted up together with their freshly painted discs. The refurbished brake calipers and black braided lines finish off the package.
Also visible in this photo is the reinstalled radiator. I flush and detail the entire radiator and painstakingly straighten the tiny cooling fins.
Meantime, Jamie Daugherty is busy rebuilding the rear shock and I'm waiting for the Samco coolant hoses to arrive before final assembly.
In this case the radiator's protective grill needed repainting due to some spots of rust. Here I've got it soaking in EVAPO-RUST, an effective and lazy way of getting all the rust from the tiny crevices. I let it soak for a few days followed by a light sanding, priming and painting with Dupli-Color silver engine paint.
The devil, as they say, is in the details.
The devil, as they say, is in the details.
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