Hello Winter: wrench to bike - Ultra Edition

[Gas Man]

Well I had everything but the exhaust on the bike and it kept bugging me that the front still looked stock. So I tore the front light dept all apart and removed some pieces for gloss black powder.



Picked up the ceramic exhausts... love the way ceramic looks, hate how easy it is to scratch. But love even more how well it absorbs/controls heat. Did the Ultra pipes in a flat black, because it will hide better behind the high temp powdered heat shields and big reason is to control the heat.



Put on the flanges and re-installed the O2 sensors


Mounted the exhaust (did with and without flash pics here, it looks like a mix of them in person, damn flash vs garage lighting)



Left side muffler and heat shield



Re-installed the high temp powdered heat shields





And of coarse the right side muffler

[Gas Man]

So I let the fork oil drain for a couple days

Installed to torque spec the new drain plugs


Measure out spec amount of fluid


Funnel to the top of the fork & pour in


With 15,500 miles on my Ultra, the dealership mechanic was surprised I was on the original brake pads. He said, most people only get 10k out of them. I figure my amount of miles is due to my road trips on the highway.

I'm always amazed by how little pad material is actually on new pads. But they are suppose to be 4.5mm or bigger. Mine were 1.8 - 2.9mm.




It's always a nice feeling to get some good preventative maintenance done to the bike. All that is left to do is get & hang exhaust.

[Gas Man]

With the saddle bags back on




A view from the back





Will pick up the front fairing bib, and light bar Monday. The 3 light rings, "out-gassed" real bad when heated for powdering, so my powder guy , is going to get a primer that controls out gassing and re-powder them again. He won't settle for anything but perfect, which is why we get along so well.

After that, I'm done with the Ultra and therefor all the winter time bike projects.

[marko138]

Sinister.

[shmike]

Gas,

When you roll the bike out for it's first ride of the season do me a favor:

Take a pic of the entire bike as it is now (front and profile preferred) and post them up with the same (or similar) pics from when it was new.

You've done so much and so many of the pics are up close I want to see a whole bike side by side before and after.

[Gas Man]

Well I got to looking at my overall appearance of the bike as stated earlier... The front end still looked completely stock and didn't show the efforts I put into the fairing backwards on the bike. Again, I'm a perfectionist so I had to do something... well a few weeks ago I got the front end parts back.

Got the "fork bib" back



Installed


The light bar





Get the blinkers and aux lights re-installed and the aux lights adjusted




I like how the parts aren't chrome over the black inner fairing anymore


Got the rings back from powder.


Installed



I like the black/chrome look carried here.

[marko138]

Looking good. You spend too much $$$ on this bike.

[Gas Man]

Not really. The whole cost on my bike is for this project was like $500-550. Less than what most spend on pipes, and a fraction of what cave spent on his this "mod season".

[marko138]

Originally Posted by Gas Man

Not really. The whole cost on my bike is for this project was like $500-550. Less than what most spend on pipes, and a fraction of what cave spent on his this "mod season".

I've spent $0.00.

[Gas Man]

But you and uma are in a contest to see who can ride less. Lol