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Micahdogg
1/22/2016 8:14am
1/22/2016 8:14am
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7/24/2020 4:01am
Everyone loves pictures...so here is the journey I've been on since about last October. Someone ran straight gas through the bike and seized it. The owner paid for the cylinder to be replated and bought a Namura piston for it before giving up. I've tried to be very economical and reuse whatever I can along the way. It is getting close!
EDIT - Photobucket bombed out this thread, so I moved all the pictures and revived this thread. Enjoy!
Fixing the seat foam with silicone
Seat cover from EVO
Sanding and refinishing plastic. Most of the dark lines are razor cuts from a prior owner trimming the graphics. Also the fork guards were murdered out in blue krylon:
Tearing it down
Rebuilding suspension
Frame and spring powdercoated, new front tire
And we got a roller! New back tire, new steel sprocket, stripped swingarm. Linkage bearings were reusable!
Getting into the engine. The big end rod bearing came apart and messed up the head. I removed 80% of the rash.
Back in its home!!!
Carb cleaning. I modded the body with a rivet to help hold the guts in place (the factory peening was weak)
Plastic going back on. I reused everything except the left side shroud which was cracked
Cleaning the silencer and polished the pipe. It has a couple dents, nothing major.
Removing sold old anodizing and sanding out rash
All done, with EVO graphics!
EDIT - Photobucket bombed out this thread, so I moved all the pictures and revived this thread. Enjoy!
Fixing the seat foam with silicone
Seat cover from EVO
Sanding and refinishing plastic. Most of the dark lines are razor cuts from a prior owner trimming the graphics. Also the fork guards were murdered out in blue krylon:
Tearing it down
Rebuilding suspension
Frame and spring powdercoated, new front tire
And we got a roller! New back tire, new steel sprocket, stripped swingarm. Linkage bearings were reusable!
Getting into the engine. The big end rod bearing came apart and messed up the head. I removed 80% of the rash.
Back in its home!!!
Carb cleaning. I modded the body with a rivet to help hold the guts in place (the factory peening was weak)
Plastic going back on. I reused everything except the left side shroud which was cracked
Cleaning the silencer and polished the pipe. It has a couple dents, nothing major.
Removing sold old anodizing and sanding out rash
All done, with EVO graphics!
AWESOME JOB!
If you live anywhere near Michigan, I will pay you good money to let me race that bike just one time. That is my favorite bike of all time and I'd love to throw a leg over it again.
The Shop
That's some serious work you've put into the plastic, been there before and man, how satisfying is it bringing old plastic back to showroom condition?
The motor looks super clean as well, looking forward to seeing this finished.
I've got about 40 hours in that YZ gas tank. Mostly because the prior owner trimmed up all the gas tank graphics with a razor blade!!!!!!!
Pit Row
Edit - and to peel the peening back I found a decent sized socket that fit inside where the bumper was. Then I had a small gap to place my flat blade screw driver and start walking around the socket, flaring the peening out a little at a time. Just made a few passes like you are using a can opener. I think you could have just as good of luck smacking the side of the socket.
How did you get the swingarm to that finish? Mines been polished so I'm guessing scotchbrite will do the trick?
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