PhatGirl Loving

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Ola,

So I am waiting for a starter torque limiter kit to come from either the USA or Germany and decided I needed to spend some quality time with the PhatGirl, wrench time it is  :mwink:

So from the get go I decided I was going to strip the bike down and check

• every single bolt and nut for rust, tightness, damage etc
• Full once over of all the electrics & power points
• Full once over of the frame for damage etc
• strip the Akro's and the header pipes of all the mud etc
• Polish the bleeding daylight out of everything
• Do a full service
• Add a few farkles

Oh I forgot to mention I am not the most knowledgeable person in terms of mechanics but being a geek I can read and figure out most things. Oh and I have a polishing fetish  :

Figure I will add a poll to see what the feeling is in terms of forecasting success, not that I give a shite either way but its fun  :thumleft:

I will be adding pics etc etc etc as I go along over the next few weeks.

It all starts somewhere

So a wise bloke once told me to start with what you can see... I think I missed his point but any how.

I decided to pull the screen off, give it a good clean and remove the scratches.

First thing was to give the screen a wash, so into the tub  :biggrin:

So first a rinse and then clean with clean green

And then rinse clean

Time for the scratch remover, autosol one (awesome stuff) I started by applying a overkill amount (read use less than this tit is) Rub it nicely in, I use a power drill with a polishing attachment thingy and a separate one for buffing.

After the first polish I wipe the screen down before buffing it

Now for the buffing

And now the same thing on the other side

After the entire polish and buff almost all the scratches are gone and flip it is shiny  :mwink:

I decided to add a AeroTrim deflector

Saturday fun:

So I decided that the first thing I would do is give the PhatGirl a good wash before I started stripping her, Win decided to join me with his newly acquired 640 and give it a good once over and get rid of a few rust spots etc.

Bikes waiting for a wetting

Fuel tank off

Seats too & Win's exhaust

Started with a clean green spray down and a hand wash then rinse with a not so high pressure hose

PhatGirl looking skinny  :

Win doing something  atch:

I have decided that the 640 looks like a frog or wall-e with the fairing off  :imaposer:

Oh theres my paw sticker in that one  :thumleft:

But plugs n all

At this point we decided that we would both work on the 640 in order to get her done before night, phatgirl will be standing for a week or two.

640 public nudity

I decided to do Win a favor and clean & polish his Bosson for him as time and weather had left its mark

The air filter on the 640 needed some serious attention too

Win started on the rust on his spokes, Q12 (phosphoric acid based) seriously mean shit but works a charm

At this point we had already given the header pipes on the 640 a good once over, though not a proper polish

We had spectators

This stuff is awesome for treating light to medium rust and removing gunk

My way of polishing (Im a noob with power tools ut I think its a 1010watt power drill?)

My lovely tool case (R 1200 from builders warehouse)

Spectator taking a closer look

looking a lil skeptical  :

640 Skirt

Yours truly (Should mention that Jo was taking most of the pics)

The collection starts

640 nude in the wind

PhatGirl chilling

Gonna need a very good clean me thinks

I cant begin to tell you the massive sigh of relief after getting the 640 started.... almost kaked myself cause we got the fuel tank back on and the dash + electrics hooked up, turned the key and the bike lights up. Win hits the happy button and nothing happens  took a second or two before I realised he has the kill switch on lol, one flick and happy button and the 640 roared happily to life  :thumleft:

Last Night

I pulled off the Akro's and started on the header pipes as well as pulled the sub frame out

After getting the header pipes out I wrapped the ABS unit up in a plastic KTM bag just in case and tied it up to stop it hanging, and sealed off the hole from the header pipes with some cloths

Header pipes out

getting dark and cold I decided to take the Akro's and header pipes upstairs and give em a quick hand wash.

No pictures of the first wash itself but on the akro's I simply used clean green and elbow grease.

The header pipes I tried a few things of which the one that works the best is Mr Min over cleaner! this shit really eats through the baked mud

So I decided to call it a night and will carry on today  :thumleft:

 

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