As promised, another (late) update today. The aluminium parts were sprayed today and are back home. I really have everything here at home now so it only depends on me now how fast the quad bike will be finished. Here are some pictures from after the spraying. My sister has really done a good job again, it all looks very nice again.

And here they are back home all nicely put together. I'm happy that I won't have to get back any more parts because it's really full here now.

Ofcourse I immediately continued building it up again. First I placed the complete front brake system. Just like it came out without having to remove even one brake line it went back in again.

Then I greased and placed the steering shaft and track rods. Also attached the handlebar with the gauge plate on it since I won't be placing the fenders yet for the test ride soon (front fender can only be placed when the handlebar is off).

And I placed all of the gauges and switches on it, looks very nice again.

Tomorrow I'll continue again, I think the rear swingarm might be going in.

The last few days I've been been busy filling up one of the boxes with components and wiring them all up. Quite a challenge to stuff as much as possible into it. The plan was to get all this in.

I just started wiring up the 2 bigger relays, these are for the 3 drive modes (low power, high power, reverse). All wires are soldered directly onto the contacts. The mounts for these kind of relays take up too much space.

I wanted to do the same with the small relays but this wasn't such a good idea. They still took up too much space to be able to place them in the same box. The contacts also kept breaking when I was moving the wires a bit.

So for these I still bought some circuit boards and they will come in a seperate box. Should still have some space for that on the quad bike.

Already soldered the relays onto them. With some spacers inbetween the circuit boards I can stack 3 of them.

But that box will come later, still have to start on it. For the other box I was working on I made a plate that fits right in. I can screw all of the components onto that. Also wired these all up already. The bigger one is the main board for the BMS (Battery Management System) and the smaller one is to convert a pulse signal from a switch to on/off.

And here's everything in the box, it all barely fits. There are quite a lot of wires that have to go outside of the box. Still have to get some cable glands that I can place in the box but I'll wait with that untill I have the other boxes done as well.

Later on I'll have some more news if all goes well, in any case I'll have enough to do again this weekend.

My sister had a little surprise for me today. While I was busy making some space so I could turn the quad bike around she was already spraying a layer of epoxy on all of the aluminium parts. This was actually going to be done next week so that was definately nice to hear. She also sent a few pictures again.

Here before spraying. All parts were also sanded a bit.

And after spraying.

This Saturday they will all be sprayed in the same color as the frame and I can take them home again. I'm really curious how these parts will look like in that nice color.

Tonight I only made some space and turned the quad bike around so it's easier for me to work on. A few of the black parts are also attached now. Looks very nice in combination with the white, just can't really see it well yet in the picture.

The coming days I'll probably be busy with some of the smaller boxes already placing some electric components in them.

Tonight I continued again. The wheel hubs with brake discs and the bumper are now attached. And the quad bike can stand on the ground again at the front since the wheels are also on it already.

Also placed the POM bushings in the rear swingarm already so it's ready to get attached as soon as the motor is on there. But untill then the quad bike still has to stay off the ground at the rear.

The front brake system and the track rods I also can't attach for now. The steering shaft and handle bar has to be attached for this first. But the part the keeps the steering shaft in place will be sprayed together with the aluminium parts. This part also got back from the sandblaster very late, that's why it hasn't been sprayed yet. Think I can only continue with a few of the black parts now. Meanwhile I'm running out of space here, the quad bike keeps getting bigger but there are still many parts on the floor. So I'll first have to see how I can deal with that.

Today I managed to solve the problem with the car pretty fast so I still had some time this evening to continue with the quad bike. I greased all of the ball joints some more and placed new dust caps on them. Then I just continued a bit longer than usual so I could still attach both of the steering knuckles and upper swingarms. It's really starting to look good already. Also those black POM bushings really match well with the color of the frame. I think with white POM bushings it wouldn't have looked as good.

Tomorrow I'll continue again with the wheel hubs, brake discs and the wheels themselves. I only can't attach the rear swingarm yet, the motor will have to go on there first but I need the aluminium parts for that. So this will still have to wait. I can already place some of the black parts though and maybe even start with the batteries already. In any case I have enough to do now.