Gary
In the beginning
In the beginningGary
Well, the first photo seemed to work (thanks to the person that explained how to resize a photo using email) so here's another of the work in progress. It's a 1967 CL77 with 22,000 miles showing and lots of welding. Inside of side covers and underside of tank show it was a Candy Orange bike originally.
eBay BenlyExpirimenting with posting photos to see if I can post more than one photo per message. These are pictues of my first time effort at "rescuing". I say rescuing rather than restoring because I did it to suit me and didn't try to make it look original. It's a 64 Benly that was put in a shed in 1969 and not moved until the owner died and his nephew put it on eBay. I like the way it turned out and it spured me on to do a 1965 CA100 and now the Scrambler. This forum is almost as helpful for restoring as my credit card. I spend hours reading the posts and learning, learning, learning. Thanks.
Gary PS, got the chrome strip that goes on the bottem of the seat and mounted it since picture.
Down to bare bonesTried to count the number of welds on a Scrambler frame but kept getting lost and gave up. I would love to see photos of the assembly line for these bikes.
ProgressBike is down to bare frame. Have spent last month cleaning, fixing, polishing and replacing individual parts. Had to re-weld the brake switch mounting bracket and the brake arm switch activator as they had been broken and re-welded improperly. Also had to use helicoils on the step bar mounting points as previous owner had drilled them out and used nut and bolt inserted backwards to attach the also broken step bar. Gathered lots of good parts off eBay and was even gifted one, hard to find part, from one of our members.
Next steps will be to start on the motor (luckily I'm doing this inpartnership with a good friend that is a professional hot-rod builder) and paint the frame before it rusts. We're leaning towards using Zero Rust as a primer, letting it dry a good, long while and then, after all fitment has been checked, painting it with Dupont Imron. We're also thinking of powder coating all the smaller black parts as we can do that in-house and like the durability (always happy to get other ideas however). Looking forward to getting a couple more packs of 00 steelwool and a bottle of Simple Green and starting to cleans motor parts. What could be finer than sitting on the shop porch, in the sun, the good old Grateful Dead on the cd player and marveling at japanese craftmanship. One of our members tags his posts with, "Assembly of Japanese motorcycles requires great peace of mind". I would add that "Cleaning of Japanese motorcycle parts provides great peace of mind".
Yes, that's our plan, but we're still at the gathering information stage. Sounds like a a silver base coat then as close a match as we can find for the candy orange and try to spray to a thickness that gives the right shade. I found a can of original Honda touch up and it seems to be still ok. We're wondering if, by the time you thin it for spraying, there would be enough for the tank and two side covers? Probably better to try a modern paint and match the color?
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