Painted Exhaust and Radiator Cover

Yup...another person doing this mod!

The paint is drying! I'll do a complete how-to for this mod when it is finished, because I didn't find a good how-to on which bolts to undo (although the service manual shows how to do it) so I'll do it for those without one!

w0000 super excited...and yes...pics will come.

How To:

1. Get Supplies
a. Tools (wrench, socket wrench, bike tool kit), paint, soda or beer.
2. Remove seat
3. Remove side pods (unhook rear taillight)
4. remove rear handlebars
5. remove exhaust cover
6. sand cover with 320 sand paper, rub with tack cloth.
7. Paint cover with a few coats of paint. Follow directions of your paint.
I also painted the actual muffler tips too...
8. Allow to dry (too soon and you'll scratch the paint)
9. Reverse the process and put it back together!

Here are some pics!

Here is the final result!!! awesome looking!

I can't wait to save the $100 for painting the rear hugger so it's red like the bike!!! niiiiice!

Hehe, looks nice :thumbup: So you are going to paint the rear hugger yourself? Let us know what paint/color you end up using.

Sweet! I did mine, but I got scorpions a week later. When we gonna go for a ride?

Avalon: I'm going to use the Color-Rite website and get the primer, red paint, and clear coat. Total cost estimated to be $100

Nick: Aren't you in San Diego?

Looks great man. I'll probably be doing the same thing this weekend.

Looks good but I'm still undecided. Could you paint your forks, pegs, and windscreen and help me decide? :thumbup:

Forks and pegs coming up...not so much with the screen...if anything, a larger calsci one for the many miles of touring that seem to be happening more often than not.

Looking forward to it opcorn:

I keep looking at all the silver on my bike and I want to paint it but I feel like you have to do all or nothing.

well, personally I like having the silver rearsets...but everything else can be blacked out...oh, and keeping the bolts silver too...I saw red somewhere on the site, but wasn't a fan...maybe white?

Are you going to do the rearsets, triple tree and handlebars too?

Jman said:

Are you going to do the rearsets, triple tree and handlebars too?

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no rearsets...triple tree and handlebars if I get comfy enough with taking it apart like that!

now you just have to paint those front forks and foot pegs like i did on mine

wayne 3 said:

now you just have to paint those front forks and foot pegs like i did on mine

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I saw your album...is that an old military Jeep you got in the garage?