SailRedemption

1 minute ago, Fishfiles said:

 

 

My good buddy has a farm in Mississippi that was his Dad's , his brother in law  still grows garlic there , he tells me they don't need any pesticides , as the insects won't mess with garlic , and he said the amount of money made per acre is a lot more than anything else except maybe weed , LOL 

Haha! Well that's cool! Yea I bet nothing goes to the garlic! I mean I would, garlic is a super plant. We have about a dozen garlics growing this winter. Should be ready by summer. 

I wonder if one could use garlic as a hedge or border to keep pests from crossing into the inside. That would be interesting to test. Maybe I'll try that when spring comes around.

I have heard that most herbs and spices are pest deterrents so it's a good idea to plant those around. I'll have to try that solution you made.

I'll have to look into our parish utilities and see if they have a wood chipper yard. 

7 hours ago, _Wilson_™ said:

If you can't get wood chips newn paper will work too..... Glad you got the soil tested.... That's one of the main things to do 1st. 

Don't get newspaper, although every now an then we get a free one tossed on the driveway. Use that for seafood boils though.

I'm going to call a local tree cutter and see if they giveaway or sell wood chips. I only have a few boxes so I don't need but maybe a truck bed load to get good depth. My potted plants we have Agatha(or something) fern that covers the soil and others we use mint for soil coverage. Mint smells awesome after a rain.

When I get home I'll have to snap a picture and share it with everyone.

I had my soil tested some months ago because nothing grew well. Everything good was high or normal. But I was like 640ppm in sodium which is super high. I treated the soil twice with some gypsum/calcium to fix that plus put in some amendments. Everything seems to be doing good so far with my fall/winter crops. Hoping the gypsum did its job. I'll test again in spring to see for sure.

We planted some beans, peas, cabbage, kale, garlic, onion, cucumber, dill, and carrots. I need to get some wood shavings to put over the soil since it's been really dry lately in SE Louisiana. Everything was still seedlings when I left for work so I'm excited to see it all when I get back home. It will be 6 weeks since I planted.

We have city water unfortunately, but we drink purified water from a Alexapure gravity filter. I put a 5micron charcoal filter on the pipe outside for watering plants. Takes the chlorine and chemicals out while also other heavy metals. They seem to like it more, but rain water is king. I'll be extending my gutters to the backside of the house to drop into a few food grade barrels for watering plants. 

At some point I'll put in a shallow well with hand pump for when water isn't free from the sky and I get low on rainwater.

10 hours ago, Fishfiles said:

I had a 125 in orange ,want to say it was a 1972 might have been a 73 , had it my sophomore year , bought it new off the showroom floor ----- had a lot of fun with that Suzuki  ---- never  forget the pain  , was doing donuts and throwing rocks and the bike fell on top my leg while wearing short pants , I was pinned up the bike for about 10 or more seconds and it  burned my calf bad , walked with a crutch for 2 months with 3rd+ degree burns 

Ouch! Yea that sounds like it really sucked! I'm ready to get this thing ripping again

Explored the forum some more tonight and found this thread. My dad and I just got a 73 TS185 last month. Less than 2k miles on it too. Doing a quick and dirty resto on it. Get it running, get it clean, and get some new tires.just got some manuals off eBay the other day which should help. Also hoping to get jt street legal again too. Any updates on yours @Misterclean?

1 hour ago, shadetree said:

moving this thread to build section sail :-).

Thanks, it kinda turned into a build thread. 😄

A little update. I had had another spot on the exhaust heat shield that rusted away where a bolt was and needed to be built back up. Brazed a small square of sheet metal where the hole was, sanded it then painted the remaining heat shields with high heat paint. Let that dry for a day and installed everything back on the exhaust pipe. I do need to get one more bolt that I had to cut off.

At some point my ignition assembly fell apart so I ordered another one after an attempt to epoxy the two together. There really isn't much to adhere to and you can sleeve it because it has to go through the hole in the dash cover.

Finally decided to knock out the rusted rims. They were in definite need of love. Started off wirewheeling them, then sanded, then sprayed them with ospho to convert any rust I couldn't get to. Let that sit for a few days and spot primed them where there was bear metal. Gave them a quick light sand and wipe/blow down before paint. Painted them with VHT Wheel paint in satin black. Did 3 nice coats with 2 cans. They came out nice. They are currently baking in the attic above the garage because I needed room and I figured the heat would help them dry while I went to work offshore.

All of my parts are in from Rocky mountain so it will be like Christmas when I get home. New speedometer display assembly, sparkplug, new ignition key assembly, shindy carb kit, front CV boots, new valve stems, couple tire spoons, and the air filter housing cover that I was missing. Also my new tires are in. Went with stock size ITP mud lite II tires. So I'm pretty excited to get this hitch over with so I can put the quad back together again. Two things I still need is boot rings(because I didn't think about getting new ones when I ordered the boots) and two LED lights to fit the lower lights(one OEM is Missing and the other is in bad shape).

7 hours ago, riverc said:

Lack of rain has been hard on my fall garden some plants have died. Not to disappointed will make enough to eat and give some away. Those plants were sure happy with that 1/2" rain we got today.

I hear ya there! Having to water the seedlings and young plants every morning with the sprinkler to keep them going. 

4 hours ago, _Wilson_™ said:

They have rust-o-leum high hest grill paint in flat black ?  Well anyways good deal, thanks for the update.

Apparently so, my dad had it so that's what I'm using.

10 hours ago, LoganLemx said:

Welcome, Good looking machine what are your plans for it?

Thanks, Just restore and fix what needs to be fixed best I can and enjoy it. I have other things I'd like to work on and this was supposedly the easiest to get done first. 

Yea this is the flat black grill paint. Says it's good to 1200° so we'll see. It's better than it was before and should help keep the rust away a little longer. It may not last long right at the exhaust manifold since it gets the hottest there.

Stripped the bike down as far as I'm going to get it for cleaning and cosmetics. Took the exhaust heat shields off and soaked them in Evaporust to kill the rust. Came out looking nice. The muffler guard needed a spot braised and the intermediate will too. I'm painting them with some high heat grill paint to hopefully keep the rust at bay a little longer. Not sure how long it will last though. Anyone tried this?

Also took the fender brackets and foot pegs off to soak in evaporust as well. They will all get a coat of paint. Sanded the racks and bumper with 120g and will prime them later today. Tomorrow I'll hit them with a little more sandpaper and they will get Raptor liner. It's a two part in an aerosol can so we'll see how that works out. Hoping it's a little more tenacious than Rust-Oleum.

Soon will be ordering the remaining parts like filter box cover, sparkplug, carb kit, front axle boots and tires.

On 9/16/2022 at 2:26 AM, Fishfiles said:

Cleaning up the shed yesterday looking for a 300 front lift kit and found one of these still in the bag. 

Sending you a pm

8 hours ago, shadetree said:

buy from rocky mountain atv, partzilla's prices are too high. as for how hard the boots are to change ?..haha..well..depends..if this is yer first time >, yer scale is a 10 !..lol. no..really...its not that hard,,but ya better have plenty of rags/towels handy ?!..it gets very messy, BE SURE TO PAY ATTENTION TO WHICH WAY THE INNER CAGES FACE IN THE CUPS ?..DO NOT PUT THEM IN BACKWARDS !!..AND MAKE SURE YOU PUT PLENTY OF GREASE IN THE BEARING RACE AND RUBBER BOOTS. for the outside boots ?, you must take the inner cv joint apart , off the shaft, in order to replace the outer boots. i take a small flat head screw driver, hammer it in under the clip bands to open them, then carefully spread the band apart, once this is done, under the large spot on the rubber boot, inside the cup, is a spring clip, its in a groove, will be hard to see, because its covered in grease. pry it out, then pull the cage out of the cup. end of cage is a c-clip, you will need a pair of snap ring pliers to get the c-clip off, then pull the cage off the shaft, now you can work the cv joint boot off the shaft. once this is off, do the same on the outer bands then just slide the outer boot all the way off the shaft, reverse when putting new boots back on.

Fantastic advice thanks! Yes first time doing this but I've done other jobs on equipment so maybe a 9.5 then right? Haha !

I just realized there's a whole other parts section on Rocky mountain.. wow!

Hmm, doesn't seem to have the oring in the cover on that eBay ad. I can get the cover and seal for $20 plus $10 shipping. I don't have that kind of oring material at the house or at work(bigger stuff there). I'd need to see if that seller or another has either the seal or a cover with seal included for less than $30 shipped.

I'm looking for a cover for my 98 450s air filter box. I have seemed to have lost mine someplace. If anyone has an extra they are willing to part with please let me know. I figured I'd see if anyone has one first before I ordered one.

Honda part#: 17217-HM7-000

See picture as well.

1 minute ago, Fishfiles said:

I feel the same way , all balls did suck in the past  ----- 

 

I was going to mention , when you order axles ,remember  the 450s has two different lengths --- Sixity use to be good , not sure you can still get them 

I wasn't planning on replacing the axles, just the boots. Maybe grab a couple bearings while I'm in it too.

6 minutes ago, jeepwm69 said:

CV's aren't bad at all.  I normally won't use anything made by All Balls but their boots seem to be good to go.

 

 

I was going to get OEM off partzilla/elsewhere.. I thought I read somewhere that All Balls quality wasn't good. That's good to know they aren't that bad. I'll look at the manual later today and see the process.

Pulled the fenders and other misc plastics off today to wash. Soaked everything down with some Awesome soap and rinsed the plastics and bike with the pressure washer. (I didn't get too close to gaskets). Was able to get the front rims off but the backs were put on with an impact I believe and I don't have that or a breaker bar. The oil cooler was chocked full of mud so that's clean and clear now. Bike is dry so I sprayed everything down with ospho to kill the rust. I'll spot paint everything black later on.

I found out I have a ripped CV boot on the front right axle. Im going to just go ahead and replace all of them while I'm doing it. They aren't that expensive and if one is bad it's only a matter of time before the others fail.

On a scale from 1-10 how hard is it to change out CV boots?

Definitely, I don't want crap lines to start deteriorating on me in a year. I'll try to see how much I need when I get back from work. I wonder if Honda service center sells it by the foot or not. I'll have to find out. Or I'll just order the OEM parts.

5 hours ago, Duitsky said:

Hello everyone!  I’m new to this forum. Ran across this while on the web. I was gifted a 1998 Foreman 450ES years back and have been working recently to get it back to running. I figured this place could help if I run into some issues in the future. I already know that my display needs to be repaired. 

Welcome, I have a similar 98 450s that was gifted as well and I'm bringing it back to life. If you need a screen repair look for the screen repair thread. Akatv is the guy to look for. 

3 hours ago, Fishfiles said:

If you look up each vent hose on Partzilla's site , it will give you a I.D. (which is 3.5mm ) and a length in mm , then add up all the lengths , that stuff gets pretty expensive , so best to be close with your measurement  or if money is no object  just buy a roll , LOL   ----------   the fuel hose and crankcase vent and carb overflow are all different size I.D.s

I saw the parts on Zilla, I didn't know they had other info. Good to know, thanks. Sucks they are all different sizes though. I know dimecitycycles has fuel hose you can get by the length, not sure the price difference is. I'll be sure to report back.