What Did You Do To Your PENTON Today?

[Dennis Jones]

Made some good progress on the Wassell.



Dennis Jones

[Don Roth]

Well, I told my wife I needed to shovel snow, that's my story and I'm sticking to it,
Happy Holidays to all Penton Folks and Family !




-don

[Keith Meatyard]

Just finished this 73 JP Hi-breather.  Thanks to all POG members for knowledge, tips, and parts.  I rebuilt this motor totally, every bearing, seal, etc.  Jerry Birky bored the jug for a new piston.  This bike has 35mm forks and the bars are Hi-point like I had on my college days' 175 back in 74-79.







Keith Meatyard

[Paul Danik]

Absolutely beautiful  

Did you do the paint work, any specifics you want to share with folks hoping to tackle such a project?

Again, great job.

Paul

[Keith Meatyard]

The pictures didn't seem to carry the color very well, but the frame's silver and the yellow paintcodes I got from gooddirt a while back, and they matched several original engine braces that I had perfectly.  The blue came from the paint supplier taking another non-faded gel coat tank and matching the color using some fancy machine.  All blue, silver, and yellow paints are Shopline single stage urethane over either epoxy or rattle can primers (one worked as good as the other).  Engine paint is PJ1 Satin Black engine and case rattle cans (matches the original perfectly). All components were cleaned to bare metal (glass bead metal, gentle stripper fiberglass) before finishing.  The motor rebuild was performed by following the steps in the Penton repair manual.   A couple of special tools were made with the help of my work's machinist.  Some parts were zinc plated using the Kevin Donovan posted description of how to set-up your own zinc plating operation.  The wheels were a pair of original NOS raedellis that someone had still on the shelf.  I have also sent rims off for re-plating, which looked nice, but isn't cheap.  I wanted to use correct high-shouldered steel rims rather than aluminum rims since this model came with steel.  Spokes were bare metal cleaned, metal etch primered, Duplicolor silver caliper paint sprayed, all baked in oven after priming and silver.

Hope this helps,

Keith Meatyard

[Lew Mayer]

Very nice work.

Lew Mayer

[Wardie]

Keith that resto is awesome. How are you ever going to race it when it looks sooo good? Well done.

[Al Martin]

Hi Keith, did you happen to go to to university of Iowa?

[Keith Meatyard]

quote:Originally posted by Al Martin

Hi Keith, did you happen to go to to university of Iowa?

Al, I did not.  I attended and graduated from University of South Alabama in Mobile, AL.  If you know of a Meatyard up there, they are probably related, as there aren't many of us

Keith Meatyard

[Keith Meatyard]

quote:Originally posted by Wardie

Keith that resto is awesome. How are you ever going to race it when it looks sooo good? Well done.

I have a 74 JP that is the runner, for trail riding, but I probably won't race anywhere serious due to several medical issues.  I do, however, enjoy working in the shop restoring the bikes.

Keith Meatyard

[KJDonovan]

Keith,

Awesome job as always!  Can't wait to see the Sherpa when it is done.

Thanks,

Kevin

Kevin J. Donovan
Foster, Rhode Island
72 Jack Piner (My Ride)
72 Six Day (Wifes Ride)
71 Suzuki TS125
72 Montesa Cota 123

[Al Martin]

I was just curious because my dad had a jackpiner  a couple of years ago that had a student parking sticker on the headlight, When you mentioned having one in college I thought it might have been yours.

[Rob Thatcher]

I've been working on the race restoration of my $100 craigslist 1972 Six Days.
Before
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Well, I have completed the engine, all new seals, shifting adjusted by Jerry Birky @ Penton Racing Products, fresh hone, new rings and ready to drop in the frame. He also worked his magic welding up some cracked aluminum pieces.
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The carb, airbox and most of the pieces are ready to put back together.  The frame is getting a couple of welds fixed and will be ready for paint. Since it was apart to start with,

I will have to hunt for the nuts and bolts as they are all mixed together. My only major projects besides assembly is replacing the fork seals and cleaning/painting the exhaust pipe.

The rims are cleaned and ready for the tires.

The fuel tank is ready to go on also.  I polished it up and rebuilt the petcocks with a new cap gasket.  
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I expect to have a completed racer to show in February!

[Dennis Jones]

Installed a NOS front fender and low mounts to my Wassell



 And a new aftermarket rear fender, almost done.




Dennis Jones

[iyaoyas]

Hi Dennis,

I'm working on a Wassell restoration as well and would like to know where you acquired your NOS front fender and the low mounts for it??

Thanks-

Stephen Markley