I have a great wife, she lets me use the dishwasher machine to clean motor parts. Here is the lower half of the motor block after one cycle in the dishwasher. The next pictures shows the motor in different angles. As you can see it actually isn’t clean, but now the whole thing has been [...]

The seat pan has gotten primed. It is the biggest part I have sprayed myself so far and I found it easier than painting small parts. The pan after painting. Nice and shiny now, isn’t it.

I’ve been searching the internet for an easy way of removing carbon deposits on the valves and in the cylinder head and on the top of the pistons. The first results just in: Soaking in WD-40 is no good! The carbon that you see has come off came off when I put the valve spring [...]

Bought new horns at a fifth of the price for original ones, for that price it is OK that they are a little different than the originals. They are 5mm wider and are 10mm deeper in the center back where the mounting bolt sits. I can live with that. As you can see they have [...]

Have masked the front brake disks because they really need some paint. On this I had to use electrical tape because it is flexible and can be curved. To get curves in the masking just stretch the tape while applying it.

Today I tested how some dirty bolts would look like if I glass blasted them. The result is very pleasing, just a little bit of buffing on some of the bolts to make them shine like new bolts. The reason why I did this is because I don’t have a tool to polish inside the [...]

A local paint shop sold me a spray can with black high temperature paint. They told me it was matte, but it was so matt I had to go back and ask them for a clear coat to have on top, just so the caliper would look somewhat like before. A total waste of time! [...]

I decided to change the liquid I had in my parts washer with White Spirit, Mineral Spirit in USA. I am glad I did. White spirit is so much better as a cleaning fluid than the environmentally friendly organic degreaser fluid I had been using so far. I just have to tolerate the smell and [...]

This is one caliper after glass blasting, some scuff marks was suddenly more visible. Some surfaces has been masked for painting. Just going to wipe it off with spirits before paint. Glass blasting was very fun, it was very effective at removing paint, but the metal was not pitted or anything like that. Even blowing [...]

Cleaned the brake disks. The only thing I will do to these is to make the black areas shinier.