Monday: No work done today but Fedex finally turned up with the new rocker cover that I bought before Christmas on eBay in the UK. It is perfect and looks brand new and with it was a second hand chrome oil filter cover and that again is in perfect condition.
Tuesday: Spent the morning in the workshop and finished polishing the mounting brackets for the master cylinders and the top triple tree. In the afternoon I swapped over the left rocker cover for the new one received yesterday and refitted the front foot pegs and the gear selector after cleaning. I removed the air cleaner box and then started doing the de-smog conversion. I have ripped everything out now all I need to do is cap the vacuum lines and put the core plugs in the block. I need to buy another one as I seem to have misplaced it!! 🙁 Unfortunately the chrome oil filter cover that I bought doesn’t fit the Valkyrie only the Goldwing still it was only £5, I’ll put it back on eBay.
Wednesday: When I was out shopping I picked up another core plug to complete the de-smogging and some moly grease for when I re-assemble the back wheel.
Saturday: I installed the core plugs and capped the two vacuum ports with the Red-eye caps. I am glad that I bought a new petcock vacuum tube for the petcock from Red-eye when I bought the caps, as the old one was perished and just snapped when I went to remove it. I re-installed the rear brake pedal and master cylinder after cleaning and replacing the pedal. I replaced the right rocker cover with a second hand one I bought of eBay some while ago. The postman delivered the electric fuel shut off valve so I have had a look at where to mount that and it looks like where some of the smog pieces were mounted under the air cleaner will be suitable.