The Water Buffalo-Seemingly never ending cafe project

[Lucky 1]

Looks very good!! I liked that paint that you used on the engine.

[Hellbilly429]

That too funny shiny, now I gotta know what happened with the repo guys, lol. Did they actually try to take anything or did they talk to anyone first?

[shinyribs]

Alright Hellbilly,you asked for it

The repo guys.Well they came to the house looking for a Suzuki Kingquad that belonged to a Mr. Wray. His farm backs up to ours.We knew who they were looking for but were not about to divulge that information.None of our business. There were two guys in a box truck and told us they came to repo "account number blahblahblah...".Like anybody has their account number on a 4 wheeler loan memorized. We told them they were at the wrong house but they would not take that as an answer. They were talking to my Dad and he told them he was not Mr. Wray.When they asked his name he told them it was none of their business and that they were officially trespassing. One of the guys had wandered off during the conversation and we didnt notice until we heard him open the door of out work trailer. Its a 7x14 enclosed trailer. Not cool. Dont touch our stuff. Dad told them again that they were trespassing and needed to leave immediately.Instead,they started to talking to each other like we were not even there.That was just irritating.They were talking about going to check inside our two enclosed car trailers,the out building and the 2 garages. All the while ignoring my Dad that they needed to leave.Well,Pops went in the house and got his Glock.They were headed up to the barn at this point.

"HEY! Its time you boys leave now! Dont come back here without a police officer if you want to look inside my buildings"

They turned ,looked and saw the gun in his hand.Then they just kept walking towards the garage.

Dad planted two rounds into the ground next to him. They were about 300 feet away and in no danger.

LOL.The young boy-the passenger-either tripped over his own feet or momentarily fainted.His buddy picked him up and carried him at full speed back to their truck.

They were gone in a cloud of dust!

The cops Dad on hic cellphone called shortly thereafter.Funny how they can do that,ain't it? THEY even kept calling my Dad Mr.Wray.Finally my Dad told the officer he was tired of all of it and if he wanted to talk some more that he knew where he lived and hung up the phone. The next day a police officer came to the house and "preached" to Dad that he just couldn't do that.

"I told them they were at the wrong house.I told them they were trespassing.I told them to leave...what would you have done?"

Thats when the officer started laughing and informed us that the young boy was so shook up that he threw up twice at the police station just telling him what happened.

Dad-"Good. Maybe he'll listen next time someone warns him."

Well,there's the story. Before anybody starts in on a rant about us trying to shoot someone.We had no intentions of that. You just dont drive out in the middle of a 100 acre farm and ignore a guy with a pistol.You just dont do that!

[shinyribs]

Found these beauties in the freebie bin we have at the speed shop.The big box of stuff people want out of their way but no one would ever pay money for.We call it the pay it forward box. You're not allowed to take something out of the box unless you have something to put in it.I made a donation of an air cleaner I would never use. So,I found my 1 1/2" temp gauge I have been wanting.WOO HOO

I had some other gauges laying around that had died ( i never throw away anything)and used those bezels so the temp gauge would match my pressure gauge

After some genuine full on riggin' I got the guts out of the old crusty bezel and in to the nice shiny matching one. But I couldn't go with that orange needle and blue line

So i painted it.I also painted over the celsius scale.Didnt want that on there. It ain't perfect,but it'll do.Now to figure out the plumbing...

[Piute]

                                                            dang

                                              great job we trained you well
                                       One mans garbage can / is another's mans treasure
 

[cdaiscool]

Ha! The Sunpro gauges I linked to, just after being used! That's funny.

I would make sure to independently check the temperature readings yourself for a little while, as Sunpro is not known for its accuracy.

[Hellbilly429]

Lol, that is awesome, did you guys rock out to a country boy can survive afterwards? I aint criticising you for that, mostly applaud because your dad had the balls to not point fingers and put up with all the harassment, those boys were probably from the city where they got guns pointed at them and nothing ever came out of it.
I'm from the sticks too, not enough cell-phone signal to speak of out here, but praise jebus they ran cable out to us so we have internet, woo-hoo!
Farmer behind me hasn't really caused us any harassment by the cops, just a little weird to hear gunshots out there when it's dark out
Great story Shiny, thanks for sharing

[shinyribs]

I hear ya on the gunshots after dark thing. It kinda freaks me out too when you hear something like that.
Makes ya wonder what the heck they are shooting at?! Of course,sometimes I get a wild hair and like to see the muzzle loader go off at night. Put im waaay to much powder(lets say about 250 grain) and a wad.NO BALL! Not with that much powder.It wont all light off.It'll just blast out the end of the barrel and go sizzling through the yard.LOL. Fun stuff you cant do in the city at 2 a.m.

Yep,cdaiscool.The same ones.I thought that was pretty cool,too.You're a visionary!!!

[Hellbilly429]

Yeah, I am pretty sure they're shooting off shotguns out here.... All I know is this trailer isn't bulletproof if one goes astray. Anywho I just shoot fireworks off in the backyard, much more pretty and the neighbors will come out and watch sometimes so nobody turns me in.

Did you paint those gauges with a brush or a spray-can?

[shinyribs]

Which part of the gauges are you asking about? The face of the one I just painted I used a pinstriping brush.Mack makes the best.The call them sword stripers.They are made from squirrel hair and can lay very fine lines if trimmed right.This one is a size 00.

[Hellbilly429]

That's what I wanted to know was the line for the temp, thought about re-doing my gauges for a little more pizaz since it a smaller and cheaper project to do while I sit around with no money.....

[slownugly007]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! wow I seriously just laughed out loud after I read that story and the part where the kid "either tripped over his own feet or momentarily fainted"! That was great, and shiny I thank you for that! Im originally from Tennessee and you know for damn sure not to just go wandering around somebodys property, ESPECIALLY if he warns you....and double if hes wielding a glock!!?? That poor kid wont ever be right after that incident! hahahahaha

[shinyribs]

Yeah,I still get a good chuckle out of it myself from time to time. You ever seen a newborn calf wobbling around? It was pretty much like that. Spaghetti legs!

[slownugly007]

HA! dude Im lovin the wrapped headers!!! I can see my bike sporting some wrap in the near future...what size wrap did you use and how much did you end up using? Plus, I wonder if they sell those spigot eliminators for dohcs??? Oh and ps-I think you should just delete this thread and open up your own forum titled "Hello' my name is shiny and yes ladies, I have 38 PAGES of replys on my build thread!!" hahahaha I love it! This has to be some kind of record...and I must admit I am among the ones who read all 38 pages...at work...of course!  Keep it up man! and if you start a new build it better be named water buffalo 2,3,4,5,6,7......etc and it has to be continued on in this thread!

[cdaiscool]

Almost agree with all your points, except...

I think each build needs its own build thread. If only because of the epicness of this one. And the awesomeness of this one.

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I think the bike has been in it's current configuration long enough. It's time he changed it.
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[shinyribs]

You guys crack me up. The sole reason this thread is so long is because I talk entirely too much. Nothing special built here,just got alot of help from all the right guys.

The header wrap was the 2" wide and it took the whole 50' roll. I wrapped them in 1" overlaps so it might have been able to stretch it a little farther. I like it alot. Used to be when I stopped somewhere I would be afraid my back pack might melt,now I can hang it on my front brake lever with confidence that my pipes wont burn it

Cdaiscool,thanks for the kind words...and thanks for picking a user name that is a pita to remember how to spell.  

If things work out I may be starting a new build shortly,or at least start collecting up some parts. But I know me.If I have parts laying around I wont be able to keep my hands off of them. Cafe=done...its bobber time!

[cdaiscool]

Just call me CDA then, or Craig. And no, CDA are NOT my initials. Just the C part.

If my pipes weren't already black, I'd consider wrapping 'em. But then again, I've got enough shit to wrap. Integra manifold, downpipe, intake piping for the turbo... I'll have enough wrapping to do once I've got a permanent job.

But either way, I like this baby.

[slownugly007]

cda i guess youre right?? Well since my hoes and dreams of the worlds longest build thread have been shattered, I will now just dream about shiny's future build thread.....and then him giving me his bike to "hold on to" while he produces a 30+ page thread for the chopper build!!! yayyyyyy thanks shiny, you REALLY shouldnt have, what a guy!  LOL

On that wrap, was it the DEI (?) brand that they sell at autozone? and on a scale of 1 to "driving a ford" how big of a pain was it to wrap the pipes?

[slownugly007]

OOOPPPPSSSS!!! by "hoes" I definitely meant "HOPES"!!!?? hahahaha