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Update: Got in some parts for the '79 and I am pleased with the look.

Wow, great vid.

Looks like fun!

Wow, congrats! Sounds good.

Gotta love the help wrenching. Welcome.

Carbs look great, man!

No, no. Not backwards. Onwards!

Welcome. I'm doing a father/son build too.

PB Blaster and a cordless impact driver. I have had to slice a flathead slot in float bowl screws before. Then replacement allen heads from your favorite hardware store.

Welcome. Make sure to post what you do with the new ride.

Welcome. Post some before pics :)

Welcome. The bike looks like a great project, good luck!

OK, thanks. They will be cut off in that case.

Yeah, I hear ya on the carbs. About the piece of the frame, see this:

Some updates: '79 - Sam and I cut the swingarm and welded in another 4" worth of DOM tubing last night. It seemed to go fairly well. While we obviously don't have a jig (and I would want to build one if we did it on a regular basis), eyeballing, with a small level and tape measure seemed to...

Welcome. The condition of your bike sounds a lot like the '79 I recently purchased and have been working on (though if you have bikes 'lying around' you're already ahead of me, as I have to troll fleabay and the classified section here for things needed). Good luck, and post those pictures...

Welcome. I get a broken link, so I don't see the image.

OK, I didn't know that grate was there. So yeah, scratch the miracle 'coat hanger' idea.

I just got my '81, but it seemed that you could kind of peer down from the top and almost see the window from the inside. Couldn't you somehow bend a coat hanger with a cloth FIRMLY taped to the end and wipe it? Just don't drop anything in there...

That does sound like a lot of work, but as you say, if that is half the fun, then go for it. If it were my design, I would go with an aftermarket cap, maybe an elevated one. I'd remove the yammy logo and weld in bungs for a clear sight tube, and a big obnoxious-sticking-out petcock.... Wait...