I believe you meant, "No fighter is done in a month"...well, especially if you drop them...then you get to start over...

Tonight, while trying to get my upper off again, she fell off the swingarm stand. I caught it, but it was a slow, agonizing fall to the garage floor. The gauge bracket that took me about a week and a half of fabrication is cracked...the overflow is broken along with the bolts that were holding it on. Fortunatly, the bars were hanging freely, so the new mirrors are only scratched, and not broken. Guess if I was contemplating a new paint job...now is the time. Guess I get to fab my own overflow and brackets. Like 2 steps forward and 3 steps back....

 

See this is why the ex500 is an awesome bike. Those dual pipes that it has are so thick and stick out so far you can never ever damange the actual bike it hits handle bars and pipes only. I am sorry about what happened man that really sucks.

 

If I would have left the cage on, none of it would have happened either. Or maybe just checked to see that it was still straight on the stand. It didn't really do that much damage to the body work. I had been wanting to change out the overflow to something cooler anyway. Now I have to decide if I want to cut the ignition off the triple and mount it somewhere else since I will have to remake the gauge bracket that broke. At least this time I have a template I can use for that bracket...still sucks though.

 

That sucks dude.

Got my motor back in. Just have to rebuild and paint the calipers, mount electronics, clean up wires, order acewell, Diablo's, headlightand find a different tail.

Im cleaning my gas tank today with sodium carbonate and a battery charger. Should be interesting.

 

muratic acid (driveway cleaner) and water 50/50, let soak over night, pour, rinse, let dry.

i've heard horror stories of sodium carbonate and electricity eating holes in tanks.

 

I've used Kreem Tank Prep in one of my old tanks and never had a problem.
Easy to use 3 part kit.