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Coming together, slowly but surely. My father in law is tig welding the muffler for me. It was cracked along the seam.

Had a 2008 Honda Rancher 420

1986 Kawasaki Bayou 300

1999 Yamaha Beartracker

2020 CFMOTO 800XC

MOTO is my favorite.

Thanks.

What is the component on the left, one with the cooling fin? I know the other is the cdi box if I'm not mistaken

Any suggestion on how to make this look better? 

Electrical tape? Black silicone?

The switch is acting up, got it to start now. May just bypass the brake switch for now.

It was. Do you know were the switch is located for the rear brakes?

Yes neutral light is on, but there is no power to the start button this time. Before I was able to jump it out, not now. I'll look deeper tomorrow after work.

So I installed new relay and new solenoid and now starter is cranking again. Damn it! 

I didn't have time to trouble shoot tonight but maybe tomorrow night.

Gonna have to go back and look thru the posts again.

Relay does not click and I even put the old one back in and nothing. All lights work though.

Just miniwax quick drying poly in a aerosol can. I used satin. 

This beartracker was a nightmare for weeks. Nothing electrical worked, brakes were all locked up and reverse linkage was also frozen. Many, many hours on this thing.

This machine must've lived outside for a long time. Every damn bolt/screw was rusted in place and the plastic under the seat disengaged and broke apart when I tried installing it.

Not sure, this is the first time I've done this. I did 3 coats of paint and 3 coats of minwax polyurethane upon Frank's recommendation. 

He has used just poly on another project that turned out great. I thought mine were just too sun faded for just the clear.

Big thanks to Frank Angerano for all the help he's provided. Plastics were super sun faded and decided to paint them. 

Upon Frank's recommendations, i used minwax poly to clearcoat after the painting. Turned out good, and is a very close match.

That's a cool paint job. Cant wait to hear about this new process when it's done.

Do you know were i can find the vin # on this bear tracker. I want to verify the year. Thanks.

1 hour ago, Frank Angerano said:

Are u kidding !!! Looking awesome. 

I actually painted the green plastics. Just clear on the black bezel.

So far yes. I'm not sure if doing just the clearcoat would have brought them back or not....

So, I hit the bezel with clear after I outlined the lettering with a silver sharpie. It turned out ok. I thought a d thought about it and decided to paint the plastics because they are so faded that I thought the clear wouldn't do the trick. I'll post more when I'm done.

Got it

4 minutes ago, Frank Angerano said:

Thats whats on the big bear i showed you.  
Worst case if you don't like the satin you can hit it with a can of gloss as a third coat.   

Oh, i was confuse. The pic you sent said gloss on it.

Wonder how a satin would look?

Did the rep specify gloss over satin or semi gloss?

Did you sand in between coats?

I have one can of satin.

I actually think I have some of that.

I tried to remove it, but felt like it ezout was going to break off, so I just drilled the whole thing out.

I have this clearcoat that's for motorcycle plastic i believe. Wonder is this would work for the plastics? More importantly,  wonder if its flexible?

I had that bolt laying around, started to use the ezout, but felt like it was gonna break. I just loosely bolted the same header pipe on to see if it worked.

I found a used one for $30 on ebay

Drilled and taped for a new bolt, all good.