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[joedrum]

thats realy good work and thought on what to do ,

thats one of my favorite tools to use you can do just about anything with side grinder

 

[sledge]

Thanks Joe , yeah Stainless Steel is hard to cut , but a cutter wheel on a side grinder makes short work of it.

 

[Joep]

what is that emblem in the center of the old?? can you get a close up of it??

 

[sledge]

Ohhhhhhhh the Emblem was just a cheap sticker , I guess who ever painted this bike for some reason left all the Honda and Goldwing signs off the bike and stuck all these cheap looking stickers over the holes where the orignal signs used to be. I guess he figured I was to stupid to notice , and he was right ........ :smilie_happy:till I started working on it anyway.

 

[sledge]

I got the Base Color on all the Parts, ( Ivory ) it's gonna have real light Brown and Gold Trim....

 

[sledge]

and today I drained the water out of it , removed the Radiator , Remover the Carbs, took them apart and cleaned them , and now they are ready to put back together .. . . a lot of work for an old guy like me...... :smilie_happy:

 

[dan filipi]

That's a lot of work for ANYONE!

 

[joedrum]

my my my youve been busy,what yr wing is yours anyway,man i bet this bike is realy going to be a gem

when you get this done im going to have to figure out an excuse on how i got lost all the way to your place to see your bike and play a little music

 

[sledge]

Thanks Joe , Yes I'd love to play some music with you sometime , I played Bars for a living for many years . I have Wrote , Finished , and Recorded 5 albums of my own stuff over there years , and one Live Album of Cover Tunes , everything from Haggard to ZZ Top.... me and my wife do a lot of Camping in the little Teardrop Camper , we belong to a Teardrop Club with almost 1,900 members , maybe we can Camp close enough to you to meet and pick some sometime. on these Camping trips I take a Banjo and Guitar and there is always a picker or two there . ....... but back to the Goldwing, I'm gonna take a day or two away from it , my back is really bad today , I have to do it in spurts ... when I get back on it , I'm gonna put the new belts on it .... Ohhhhhhhhh I worked with the Carbs for a while yesterday , and I come up with a real Easy way to get them out of the frame , .... I had everything off , and the Carbs out to the side , but the last 2 Carbs was hitting the upper frame bars , I tryed several times , then I took the Vaccum Tops off the last 2 ..........and they will just Fall Out..... LOL , I figured you guys already knew that , but I sure didn't ........................Ohhhhhhhhh I forgot , Both of my Goldwings are 1980 Standards , the Black one was really rough and I stripped it down and might sell most of it, and it has the Wind Jammer stuff on it , and I guess somebody has put this Interstate stuff on the White one .

 

[joedrum]

yeah i know whaty you mean the dog house has realy got me depleted to the point that a good nights rest is not enough to recover so im hitting it in spurts to and with all the stuff around here to do with spring coming on is huge . today all the big stuff can wait im going to mess with the bike alittle bit im no different than you ive got to be doing something. sitting on my butt and acting like im doing something on my bike is a great mind fooler for me so i can recover. ive been playing a lot of music lately with various deals .seems like everything is coming all at onece and my out of thin air lifestyle is starting to sufficate me ive got to put something together which may involve leaving home for awhile i realy want to stay home cause ive got so many open end stuff going on so im scambleling bad and hoping to maybe find something local to do to thicken the air just a little to string things alone ive diffinutly jumped in the deep end of the pool this yr

 

[sledge]

Thats the way it goes......either Nothing , or Everything ..... no middle of the road ... LOL ... I think I may have asked you before , but , what kind of music do you play ??? I know down in the gulf a good musician can make some real bucks playing on the floating casinos . the music is pretty much Boring , but ....... easy to play.. LOL .. I have a buddy who has been doing that for years . and around this part of the country Dollywood pays the big bucks too. But Dollywood is really hard to get into. ........but anyway , you just have to take things one day at a time.... I guess the Hardest thing for me was to Just Slow Down.... I have had a real problem with that, but I'm trying. Today me and the little lady are going out in my little wagon and ride around in the sunshine and enjoy the day. most people never just Enjoy a day. I'm not sure if I have posted a picture of my little wagon or not...... old age thing you know..LOL .... but there it is , I got it wrecked , I welded the rear doors shut, covered all the windows with metal..... built the front and rear all out of metal too.

 

[joedrum]

sledge thats just to much i cant even tell what it is its certainly sledges little wagon now.i mosly play southern rock and music from back in our day im only three yrs younger than you but i can play anything almost i only struggle on the easy stuff, to much time to think on my own instead of atomatic fire we all have our waterloo freaks me out sometimes when i watch somebody do something better than me who thinks im some kind of drum god what do you say ive try they dont beleave a thing you say and laugh and tell me to quit making fun of them

ive got to go or idpost some more im trying to teach some guys who are working way to hard with there music and get them settle down and learn how to jam together so they might be able to figure out what there capable of doing hope you had a nice day with the wife

 

[sledge]

Thats nice Joe , I like most people have quit more than once ... but , I haven't played a club since the last of 2003 . I still play around the house and with friends, and we played pretty much top 40 country , and old southern rock. like ... Bob Seiger , ZZ Top , Eagles .have yopu got anything recorded that I could hear Joe ..??? my Email is [email protected] ... and on the little Wagon , it's a 1988 Camry Wagon , converted to a Sedan Delivery ... LOL... I took the back seats out , covered the inside walls in Stained and clear coated 1/4 " Birch Plywood.... It has the same eng. as the Toyota MR2 of that day. . . 2.0 , 16 valve double overhead cam ,..... Cruise , Tilt , Air , Power everything .nice little ride, and gets between 35 and 40 MPG . nowdays thats important ...

 

[Joep]

Did that start out as a Vega??? sure has similar lines to the one I had in Italy

 

[mcgovern61]

Did that start out as a Vega??? sure has similar lines to the one I had in Italy

I dunno, it sure reminds me of my old Pinto wagon for those who remember! :smilie_happy:

Example:

 

[sledge]

No it started out as a wrecked 1988 Toyota Camry 4 door wagon that had hit a Pole or Tree sliding sideway. it knocked the left rear side glass out of the car , and when I got the body fixed I found out just how rare it was ,that was in 2001 , I couldn't find a glass at a Junkyard anywhere around here ... there are many many Camrys ... but very few Camry Wagons , at that time I just covered rear side glass holes with metal .... and finished the body work and Painted it and drove it for several years .. and in the winter of 2008 I desided it needed some work , so this time I welded the rear doors shut , cover both side rear glass' with metal , and took all the interior out of the back of the car , and did it up like an old 40's or 50's Sedan Delivery . It really draws a crowd , even with it not Painted yet , the old school car guys are the ones who stop to talk about it most, for one thing is the 40 year old ET Mags that I had to recut to make them fit. and I made a Pistol Grip Shifter handle out of 3 different kinds of wood.... White Oak in the center with a slice of Rosewood on eachside of that , and a thin piece of Poplar on the outside of eachside.............Ohhhhhhhhhhh yes , years ago my neighbor had a Port Hole Pinto wagon , I Loved that little thing.

 

[sledge]

otherside

 

[joedrum]

sledge when it rains it pours my son had to go to the hospital last night and now theyve tranferd him to another hospital to have his apendentics taken out

this aqn open invitation you guys can come up here not close but here at my place i have asmall cabin here ,just couple hundred yrds from an 8000 acrea lake and its proably much like your own area ill get my wife or daughter to help me with the e mail stuff. i dont mean to sound stupid but with i got that tic feaver or lyme desease so bad it tore my brain up bad my short term memory is gone and not coming back. its a good thing a knew how to do a lot of things before this happened . it took me a yr to learn just type and mis spell words on the computer and i still have to have help to post pics ijust cant string the thougts together and comit it to memory every time i do it its like the frist time but i will get it . everybody gets on my case about pics but ive never told anybody how hard it is for me . it is kind of funny how i can do all these things to my bike machining and stuff,build huge doghouses but cant post pics on my own it aint bad im totaly use to it and stay out of situation that make it look i need to be taken off by the people in the white coats.

while i was making this post i got a call and it looks like theres some problems with my son so i have to go find a hospital that i have no clue where it is even though i should , ive gotten good at brainless travel and find but i dont like all the grandma drivers passing me up oh well .

 

[dan filipi]

Good luck with your son Joe, I hope he's ok.

 

[sledge]

oh gosh Joe so sorry to hear about your Son , I had the same thing when I was 11 years old , . . . thanks for the Invitation and maybe we can do that sometime this summer . Me and the Wife go to Teardrop meets a lot in good weather , and we have a couple of friends up at Chillicothe Ill. . . my wife used to live in Jeffersonville In. years before I met her . please keep us informed on your Son. He'll be in our Prayers Joe.