Angelina: Build Story of my 4-wheeled Motorcycle

[cc2Arider]

Hey Y'All,

This past weekend I devoted most of my garage time towards prepping my radiator for final installation. I decided to paint it black for a more authentic look, and I chose Eastwood's Radiator paint for the task...

Scuffing, degreasing, and metal cleaning resulted in a decent prep for the paint, and it laid out well from the spray cans. I got most of the coverage with one can, but got an extra for the final coating (and just in case touchups ) It was good that I planned ahead for mistakes...'cause I had my wire retainers slip off while trying to unhook them from my painting frame. The radiator bounced off a towel on the concrete floor and revealed a minor scuff on the bottom flange and both hose fittings had dents I don't think I cracked it, but wowsers, that is some soft aluminum!

I could bend the flanges straight with just finger pressure and I managed to reshape the hose fittings to nearly round again with a wooden dowel. I hope it is alright...we'll see...

Anyway, here's the pictures right before I took it off of the painting frame radiator painted black1.jpg radiator painted black2.jpg

Lastly, I trimmed up the bottom edge of my fan shroud, and then scuffed and cleaned it before adding the riv-nuts for the fan assembly. Here's a picture before it goes off for powder coating radiator shroud ready for powder coating.jpg

Until next time, Happy Building!

Craig C