TheProspector
Active Member
Hey all, been following everyone else's builds for awhile, so I thought I'd start my own.
Saw this in CL last year, didn't know anything about CB360's (still don't... ha), but the engine wasn't frozen so I bought it cheap. I didn't know what my end result would be nor any plans to cafe it, just had been wanting a bike for awhile and something to build or fix up, which this definitely is. Reeeeally intimidated by all the wires, parts, and rust and not knowing where to start, I picked the easiest place I could think of, the gas tank. It was already unattached to anything and I thought I'd build up some confidence working my way down to the engine from there.
It was pretty rusty so I found a safe type of rust remover and made short work of it. Then hammered in the knee dents. Had no idea what I was doing, just drew my design onto it and went to town. Then dremeled the rusty trim tabs off underneath, body filler, sanding, filler primer, and primer. Researched the biggest rattle can metal flake I could find and came across Roth Rattlebombs, who had a silver metal flake. Also went with the two-part rattle can clear so I could minimize gasoline drip problems. The Rattlebombs come in a base and then topcoat. With every coat of paint, I thought I'd ruined it. Having never painted anything before, it was hard to know when I was doing something wrong, so it felt like I was doing everything wrong. Finally got the clear on, which made everything look so much better. Then the decal (I forget where I ordered it from). I still need to clear over the decal and do final wet sanding and polishing, but I'm pretty happy with it. I know it's far from perfect. It was hard getting the contours of the dents to look identical, so I did my best.
Also started getting the clocks sanded, torn apart, painted, new decals, new rubber seals, new leds. I'm really happy with how they turned out as well. I'm still not sure how I'm going to mount them, since I don't want them awkwardly being too tall.
Have been ordering lots of parts as $ allows and rebuilding things. Am sooo frustrated because it seem with everything I try to unscrew, I break a frozen rusty bolt off. Awful...
Bike only came with a bill of sale, so I spent a day a few weeks ago and went through the steps to get it titled in TX. If anyone wants to know, it's a pretty easy process, just time consuming and I had to drive to 3 different places. Also required getting a surety bond. Anyway, wanted to make sure I had that before getting into the real nitty gritty and I'm happy to say the title arrived in the mail 2 days ago.
Anyway, I'll update more as I go, but here are some photos for now. Thanks so much for all of the inspiration!
Saw this in CL last year, didn't know anything about CB360's (still don't... ha), but the engine wasn't frozen so I bought it cheap. I didn't know what my end result would be nor any plans to cafe it, just had been wanting a bike for awhile and something to build or fix up, which this definitely is. Reeeeally intimidated by all the wires, parts, and rust and not knowing where to start, I picked the easiest place I could think of, the gas tank. It was already unattached to anything and I thought I'd build up some confidence working my way down to the engine from there.
It was pretty rusty so I found a safe type of rust remover and made short work of it. Then hammered in the knee dents. Had no idea what I was doing, just drew my design onto it and went to town. Then dremeled the rusty trim tabs off underneath, body filler, sanding, filler primer, and primer. Researched the biggest rattle can metal flake I could find and came across Roth Rattlebombs, who had a silver metal flake. Also went with the two-part rattle can clear so I could minimize gasoline drip problems. The Rattlebombs come in a base and then topcoat. With every coat of paint, I thought I'd ruined it. Having never painted anything before, it was hard to know when I was doing something wrong, so it felt like I was doing everything wrong. Finally got the clear on, which made everything look so much better. Then the decal (I forget where I ordered it from). I still need to clear over the decal and do final wet sanding and polishing, but I'm pretty happy with it. I know it's far from perfect. It was hard getting the contours of the dents to look identical, so I did my best.
Also started getting the clocks sanded, torn apart, painted, new decals, new rubber seals, new leds. I'm really happy with how they turned out as well. I'm still not sure how I'm going to mount them, since I don't want them awkwardly being too tall.
Have been ordering lots of parts as $ allows and rebuilding things. Am sooo frustrated because it seem with everything I try to unscrew, I break a frozen rusty bolt off. Awful...
Bike only came with a bill of sale, so I spent a day a few weeks ago and went through the steps to get it titled in TX. If anyone wants to know, it's a pretty easy process, just time consuming and I had to drive to 3 different places. Also required getting a surety bond. Anyway, wanted to make sure I had that before getting into the real nitty gritty and I'm happy to say the title arrived in the mail 2 days ago.
Anyway, I'll update more as I go, but here are some photos for now. Thanks so much for all of the inspiration!