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Your standard issue 73 cb 350 twin, not a real ambitious build planned, gonna do the usual seat / rear fender chop and or relocate, its going to get clubman bars for now and staying with "stock" exhaust, purchased new dunstall pipes to attach to the headers. Friend sold it to me not running with no current title for $150.
I immediately set about finding if its going to run or not, so removed carbs and the tank complete with rusty interior and took em to work for a thorough cleaning. Much squinting and poking with tiny implements later, carbs were degunked then soda blasted.
The rusty tank? I took a road less traveled, here's a few pics.
Sandblasted the exterior of the tank to remove the badly oxidized burgundy paint job. My solution for rust removal on the inside was to throw a half dozen handfuls of very fine abrasive gravel into it. Shake well, do not stir.
Shake some more, take a break. Go back and to be safe, shake it some more, then get your friends to shake it.
Maybe 15 mins worth of good violent shaking and the gravel, almost sand really, had removed 90% of the rust. Dumped most of it, blew it out with compressed air, then used some old oil to swish rinse swish rinse repeat ad nauseum. In the end, I did the final two rinses with a light air tool oil we had laying around and set it to "Drip dry" overnight.
Set the tank back on after installing carbs, added a couple inline filters and thoroughly cleaned the petcock. ( removed from tank during rust removal)
With all the stuff back on the bike, and verified spark ( new battery in there too ) fed it some fuel and produced some mild coughing sounds from the pipes, encouraging!
Carbs off again and found some gunk i had missed, put em back on and almost got a decent idle right off the bat. After a little more running noticed im down a cylinder so had to start looking at the ignition system.
This is where this sight, DTT, really shines. With guys like Crazypj, yinzer, jewbacca and others running around, Tim, sonreir, you guys prolly dont know it but you've already been a big help. After some poking around realized I had to reset the gap on the points, and without direction from you guys and others I woulda been workin in the dark.
A month after delivery and the bike runs, not too bad either. Took a VERY short scoot down the street and back, got up to 3rd but didnt wanna push my luck on those ancient dry rotted tires. I should mention the clutch would not work at all at first, altho after a short ( 15 foot ) scoot down my driveway it had worked free and would disengage the gearing. The plates musta been a wee bit sticky. Definately worth a try if your new/old machine doesnt clutch right away.
Workin on a seat mold for fiberglassing:
More to come!
I immediately set about finding if its going to run or not, so removed carbs and the tank complete with rusty interior and took em to work for a thorough cleaning. Much squinting and poking with tiny implements later, carbs were degunked then soda blasted.
The rusty tank? I took a road less traveled, here's a few pics.
Sandblasted the exterior of the tank to remove the badly oxidized burgundy paint job. My solution for rust removal on the inside was to throw a half dozen handfuls of very fine abrasive gravel into it. Shake well, do not stir.
Shake some more, take a break. Go back and to be safe, shake it some more, then get your friends to shake it.
Maybe 15 mins worth of good violent shaking and the gravel, almost sand really, had removed 90% of the rust. Dumped most of it, blew it out with compressed air, then used some old oil to swish rinse swish rinse repeat ad nauseum. In the end, I did the final two rinses with a light air tool oil we had laying around and set it to "Drip dry" overnight.
Set the tank back on after installing carbs, added a couple inline filters and thoroughly cleaned the petcock. ( removed from tank during rust removal)
With all the stuff back on the bike, and verified spark ( new battery in there too ) fed it some fuel and produced some mild coughing sounds from the pipes, encouraging!
Carbs off again and found some gunk i had missed, put em back on and almost got a decent idle right off the bat. After a little more running noticed im down a cylinder so had to start looking at the ignition system.
This is where this sight, DTT, really shines. With guys like Crazypj, yinzer, jewbacca and others running around, Tim, sonreir, you guys prolly dont know it but you've already been a big help. After some poking around realized I had to reset the gap on the points, and without direction from you guys and others I woulda been workin in the dark.
A month after delivery and the bike runs, not too bad either. Took a VERY short scoot down the street and back, got up to 3rd but didnt wanna push my luck on those ancient dry rotted tires. I should mention the clutch would not work at all at first, altho after a short ( 15 foot ) scoot down my driveway it had worked free and would disengage the gearing. The plates musta been a wee bit sticky. Definately worth a try if your new/old machine doesnt clutch right away.
Workin on a seat mold for fiberglassing:
More to come!
