Finally. . . .
Ice racing sounds like fun.
I finally got back to my little project Cub.
So, I went out and bought a sled load of 320 wet/dry paper and after some sore fingers brought things to this:
Yup, that's my bed the frame's resting upon. My wife is very forgiving
The blemish in front of the rear indicator mount is where I had just JB welded a 2mm hole but not sanded back the JB yet.
Sanded:
Sanding back a spot weld:
Head bearings were worse for wear, to say the least:
I then looked under her skirt:
That's going to require copious application of elbow grease.
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The rear fender has been repaired in the past. Welds look decent enough.
When I had at cleaning up the tail it turned out to be better than at first glance. I didn't wash the bike before the teardown, so there was a good bit of mud that came right off when I wirebrushed it and that, plus half an hour of sanding made it pretty clean.
In the next pic you can see the spot inside the body where water got in and caused the pinhole I JB welded earlier. I opened it up, cleaned it out, packed it with grease and sealed it up. Not the best way, but should hold it for now.
Tomorrow I will look after the front section of the underbelly and inside the frame where the tank will sit. Then underseal the rear fender to prevent future corrosion.
Forks are not beautiful:cry
The cantilever assembly has to come out because, after all this time, the springs are totally knackered.
The left of the picture above shows where the nut and stud that secure the spring/cantilever assembly are. Both the stud and nut are massively corroded and it's too tight for a saw, plus a hammer and chisel would be too brutal - so I'm just gonna have to try and shear them off with torque.:kboom
Slow going sanding all the layers off the metal dash assembly. Why I didn't do this when I was doing all the other metal paint stripping, I don't know. The most recent layer of paint is horrendous. It's almost like household emulsion and takes forever to sand off.
The old contrils for the turn signals and lights had their toggle switches broken off ages ago, so the loom was cut and small, red, flick switches were used instead. One for lights, one for ignition and a horn button left working.
I'm going to buy a new loom from a Chinese company in one of the markets here. Hopefully under $20.
Methinks it's gonna be fun when I open the engine:evil
I had a couple of hours before opening the bar so I finished sanding the swingarm and primed it up.
Before:
After:
Then I undersealed beneath the rear fender of the frame. Some people paint first and then underseal. I do the opposite, if it's good enough for VW to do it that way, so will I.
Then I had a look at the front trim which holds the "50" badge.
The gimp who owned this before me who painted the thing that scummy yellow colour also sprayed over the lovely silver badge:eek1
Luckily, the paint didn't take well to this and I was able to chip it off gently with a metal scribe without damaging the badge. It still needs further cleaning. but it's an improvement.
He also painted the chrome trim for around this part. This will be slower to clean up:
I did get the rest of the underside of the frame around the engine/center-stand mount cleaned up and primed & the inside of the frame in the tank/electrics space.
The Mrs snapped me sanding furiously:
Frame largely sorted:
Not 100% happy with the spot just to the left of the rear blinker mount. It looks like a little skim is in order.
I think he forks are too corroded to be worth repairing. I'll just get a secondhand set and work with those.