Upgrades, Repairs and Maintenance

I finally got the heads sent out to Porters Beemershop in Castro Valley, CA. There wasn't much difference between UPS 2nd day and UPS ground much to my surprise, so they should be there sometime today. I have yet to get an estimate of the time for the repair but last Spring, I did get a good idea of the cost. Quite a bit of thought this last Summer went into trying to figure out if the repairs were worth it. After all, the bike is 27 years old and has over 60K miles on it. I think that I'll probably have this old bike for quite a while and one of these days, I would like to put a side car on it.

Upgrades or repairs

• Replace the valves seats and valves for use with unleaded fuel
• Replace the stock 280 watt charging system with a 450 watt aftermarket (this also gets rid of the diode board)
• Find more appropriate tires for use on all of the dirt/gravel roads in the area
• Adapt the stock luggage mounts to use with the Reynolds rear rack
• Upgrade rear lighting as the single tail/brake light is pretty anemic
• Supplemental front lighting
• Rebuild and balance the carburetors or at least take a look inside the bowls

Winter maintenance

• Replace brake fluid, engine oil/filter, transmission oil, driveshaft oil, final drive oil
• Replace oil in the front forks
• Replace front fork boots
• Grease final drive splines
• Check out all of the brake pads

An update from the Beemershop. About 3 weeks before shipping them back.