White House K10 - a story of regeneration

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With the tank and panels away at my friend Mike's custom paint shop (https://www.rage-designs.co.uk/) I had little choice but to turn my attention to the rest of the bike.

I took off the Wyvern exhaust thinking it just needed a really good clean up, but so glad I did as I found all the exhaust manifold gaskets leaking, needing a new set of gaskets.

I started polishing by hand, but that was hard work on the chrome of the header pipes so resorted to a sewn cotton mop on my little bench grinder. One of the header pipes is lightly dented underneath, so whilst I did think about doing the freezer & water trick to blow out the dent I decided in the end just to polish and refit as it was easily visible.

The silencers are stainless steel, did the same as the header pipes and they look great.

!'m undecided about what to do about the scratched aluminium side protection on the right upper silencer, will probably leave it alone and consider it an old war wound.

The sticker on the right lower muffler was covering up a mark. Sticker and mark have now been removed.

Photos show before & after polish, gaskets and header pipes refitted.