83 430 Rider Project

I'm guessing the new gem is a 79 390CR?

Nope, it's a 390WR. I was hoping though. I bought it site unseen hoping it had Ohlins on it. Of course they are KYB's off an RM. Oh well.

Worked on the rear backing plate today and cleaned it all up and got it put together.





My son stopped by to say Hi, and brought me these Curnutts to rebuild for him and give me some cash for a new set of Curnutts I built for him. I am going to probably give him the cash back. He doesn't get the "I do stuff for him part of family". The white shock is 13" long to put it into perspective. Off road car shocks for his buggy. I now get to make fixtures to take them apart and so on.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/crash-200m...ta-insight-190mph-160225290.html?vp=1#tBTb5ZF

What is interesting is that the announcer at the start line was saying it was a Prius. I can't tell the difference between an Insight or a Prius. The same team had a little CRX out there that was fast as stink.

I had a visit from Santa this week. He was somewhat a little early.......but I took the package anyway.



Cleaned up and plated the fender mounting bolts and installed new nylocks. Mocked up the number plate to see how it will look.



I looked around my stash of parts, through the top of my big toolbox, everywhere I could think of for almost two hours for this part, and it is sitting right in front of me. I am sure I was having a senior moment



I use these drawer pulls for cable guides. You can get them at Home Cheapo or any Ace is my Place for around 90 cents. They work great and I think they look pretty cool mounted up.



More to come in a few.

Beautiful job! Really enjoying your thread. Geez... some people should not be allowed to buy spray paint.

Todays adventure was making some aluminum side number plate mounts. Years ago when I had one of these bikes I fought the number plates getting pulled off by my boots and trying to keep them on the bike with my knee's using the rubber grommets. I made these aluminum mounts with a stud on one side that bolts onto the frame after you cut the post off and drill the mount for the 6mm bolt. Then use a shortened bolt for the attachment bolt. I like it much better this way.





All mounted up. They are real secure.

The panels are looking pretty good. Are they made from black plastic or just black painted?

Black plastic from DC Plastics. It was special order but they would do some for you I am sure. Talk to Tom.

thanks Tom for the tip,
here in Germany You can buy a lot of stuff fo Maico or KTM but Husks it s difficult ... had to build my own spares and tunings for my black horse

nice bike
top fork (Magnum 50 ?)
originals side panels in aluminium but more simple to put the 83/84 in Black (DC products)

Chayzed, do you rebuild curnutts for others? I have a set on my puch that could use a rebuild.I think the shaft's have a little pitting tho.
Also, how did you polish the spokes? And where did you get the zinc plating kit?

Cool bike Jens Ries. A little more black than I like, but still looks cool.

The DC Plastics are quite a bit better than they were a couple of years ago.

Yes disonny, I rebuild Curnutts for other people. I have done a couple of pairs for members on here. I am very reasonable. I can normally polish out the shafts depending on condition, or in some cases I have new shafts in stock. They are normally in good shape and appear to be pitted. What year and size Puch do you have? I raced them for a few years. I got to ride a twin carb once. That was cool. PM me on the shocks.

The front spokes I used a scotch brite pad, fine wire wheeled them and used Simichrome and Mothers on a polishing wheel. They were stainless already and had a lot of tarnishment on them. They came out good but we will see how they are in a few months.

I bought the zinc plating kit from Eastwood. Now that I have figured it out I am going to try what Gord and a few others have done with vinegar and stuff. Do a search in the vintage/left kickers for "plating". There is a good thread about it.

Scott

yes I polished my spokes in the same way ... a scotch pad from kitchen with "flitz" polishpaste .. it s a stupid work for hours ... and hours ...
do You think it would be interesting to show the build of in a titel here at ch ?
You can watch for more details at the german forum .. look for schwarzes Pferd in Oldies/Vintage at husqvarna-forum.de ...
this winter I m rebuilding my TC 500 83/84 first series

and what mistake did I do by loading up the pics twice?

Scott, I have a 75 puch 175 sixday. I don't ride it much and it's stored for the winter now. My brother had one in the 70's. Our buddy had a small bike shop and he sold hodaka, puch, he had some rickmans too. That twin carb must have been a blast!!
I saw a pic of a soda blaster you were using. Interesting! Did it work well? I am restoring a 78 cr250. I want to do some of the aluminum parts and I was wondering if you used the soda blaster.
Dale

I have polished spokes by turning them super fast (2500+ RPM) in a small lathe and buffing with a wheel going the ooposite direction.
I was told that at Buchanan's they use a 3600 RPM polisher for spokes. My actual polishing speed is much slower that theirs because they use a large diameter wheel which equates to lots of inches per minute.