Filling in more holes

A couple of these actually look like real welds.  Had to grind these and sand them out to make this fender look descent.  This fender had about 9 holes in it.  Mig welding sheet metal with holes was kind of challenging.  I got a lot of practice and learned a lot doing this though.  I put a piece of copper behind the hole and had to play around with the wire feed speed.  Some anti spatter spray would have helped.

Flux core mig weld, on a trailer fender to fill in some holes

This was the fender I was practicing on before.  It had a bunch of holes in it.  Well today I watched a bunch of welding videos on youtube and got myself psyched up to weld up some stuff.  It's not the prettiest weld, but you got to start somewhere right

Mounting a gas tank on an XS650

Here are a couple of photos from last night.  The tank mounting bungs came from Hugh's Handbuilt and the stainless steel hex screws came via egay.  

A broken swingarm bolt grease fitting for XS650

When I was greasing the swingarm for the '83 650 I busted off the end of my m6 size zerk fitting pulling off a grease gun.  Had to break out a screw extractor bit and an adjustable tap handle wrench to back out the broken piece.  Most auto stores carry these metric fittings in packs.   

XS650 Oil Change

I had today off of work, so I changed the oil in the '83 XS650.  Here are a few photos...

XS650 Battery quick connect

Made a quick connect hook-up for my '83 xs650.  Works like a champ