I would leave it as is. That paint holds up well in every other aspect. Just don’t get careless when you fill your tank. I have tried a few other high temp paints but haven’t put them to the test yet. The pipes are still hanging in my garage. I used VHT paint from my local Autozone. The Very high temp header paint is extremely flat black and almost looks powdery in finish. Don’t think I’m gonna like that for clean up from mud runs.

 

I'll leave it as is for now. I just put a heat gun in it, and I'm going to let it burn off for about an hour. This will burn out some of the oil that was inside the pipe from the bad crankshaft seals, and maybe the paint will cure a bit harder. It has been smoking both from the end of the tailpipe, and from the paint itself, but now that's diminishing. It's about 350 degrees at the curve of the pipe, and the rest of the pipe is around 235 to 260. In any case, it's not hard to strip and repaint again if I have to. Live and learn...


 

As far as the Shinko 241 I've been impressed as long as it's not mud or snow they are a great fit for these bikes, good performance on and off road. Modern bikes with too much HP tend to spin them too much, no issues there with my CT2!

Hey Guys - I haven't posted in a long time, but this topic caught my attention. I resurrected a 1969 CT-1 as a COVID boredom project. I finished it in November 2020. It had no title or paperwork at all. It was abandoned on private property. The property owner was going to haul it to the dump.

Several months ago I went to my local CA DMV field office to ask how to get a title. They told me I had to do a lien sale and sent me home with a raft of forms. I'll try to make the story as short as possible:

Since Spring is here in the Northern Hemisphere I decided it was time to pursue the paperwork. I filled out 3 or 4 of the forms, cut a check and mailed it to the giant DMV in the sky. Two weeks went by and I just got the whole package back in the mail today - unprocessed - with another form attached saying their interpretation was I couldn't do a lien sale. So I went back to the local field office, showed the nice associate at the window all my paperwork, and asked what to do next... The associate scratched his head and asked me to wait and he'd talk to a supervisor. After a few minutes he came back, started typing, and asked me for $141. Bottom line - it's back in the system, and all I have to do is take the bike back to the DMV for them to validate the VIN, and I get a clean title, a new plate and a registration sticker!

I was stunned - this was not the result I was expecting. However - I'll take it. I have a newfound respect for the staff at this DMV field office!

I’m glad I live in Tennessee if your vehicle is 25 yrs or older you fill out one page name address. Make model and year vin number if it doesn’t come back stolen you leave with a tag and title will be mailed no bill of sale required 

Dad3sons, it sounds like the first person you talked to at the DMV didn't know what they were doing. I think if you take the bike to the DMV for VIN verification, they'll end up referring you to a CHP office. I called a place called SoCal VIN Verification, and the guy (Mike) came out the next day to examine it, and filled out form Reg 31 for me to take to the DMV. He only charged $80, which I thought was reasonable, I don't know where you live, but I think he travels all over Southern California, and part of the fee is based on how far he has to drive. But congratulations on getting as far as you have!

www.socalvinverification.com/contact?gcl...mnGtiH8aAusYEALw_wcB

The VIN verification can be done by the local office if they are in the mood, and the vehicle is there and easy to access. If the VIN is hard to see or get access to (in the back of a pickup they'd have to climb into), they may tell you to take it to CHP or have it independently verified like you did.

I dealt with all that bringing in an out of state snowmobile this year, the engine VIN was buried under the carbs in the middle of the machine. In my experience they love old Yamaha enduros, easy access to the VIN numbers and they typically match too.

Darinm, that's what I was afraid of. If I loaded the bike up in my truck and drove it to the DMV, they wouldn't want to climb up in the bed to take a look. I also don't have a ramp yet, so it would be difficult to take it out of the truck at the DMV. However I could have loaded it on my driveway by backing down to the street to get the tailgate low.

I was also told I would have to file a planned non-op on it to even drive it to the DMV on public streets, either in my truck, or on a trailer. It just seemed a heck of a lot easier to have the guy come to my garage and fill out the form there.

However you are right, it's very easy to see the three different VIN numbers. One on a sticker on the steering head, one stamped in the steering head, and one stamped into the left crankcase.

I don't know where they are coming off with it needing a PNO to be riding in the back of a truck or on a trailer, if the tires of it are not on the ground, it's not their business, after all that's what the truck and trailer registration covers, they could argue PNO for unloading it at DMV though. Regardless, proves the point it's more about the agent than the letter of the law and a good attitude goes a long ways!

Actually California law says something like "on or over public road" as a requirement for registration...  that goes way back.  When I was a kid a friend's Dad got a "no registration" ticket when we went with him to pick up an old unregistered street bike with a pickup truck.  He fought it and the court threw it out because of the circumstances and the fact that he registered it right away after buying.