Its February 12 and I'm home with my new girlfriend. SO, now I have all these boxes, bits and pieces - what now? I spent a day or so looking at everything, muttering to myself: "WTF is this thing?" etc. So I find probably the only other guy on the island mad enough to be into these things and asked his advice. He said the best place to start was to get to "rolling frame" stage. That means front and rear wheels, shocks, bearings etc all overhauled, aligned and installed. It also means doing something with the hunk of rust that is supposed to be the frame.
The frame is not pretty. It comes in 2 pieces (main, and sub-frame). After taking pretty much everything off these pieces, I find a shop that does sand-blasting. There, for a very reasonable fee, they gave me back the nicest shiny bits of steel I ever saw! The hunks of rust look very pretty now, and I rush home to prime them. Hilo is a very wet place, and if the parts are not primed the same day as they were cleaned, they will rust overnight.
and thats how I went from "before" to "after". Progress at last!
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