How To Recover a Motorcycle Seat Vinyl | Restoring The Seat Pan On a Honda CB750 Project | Part 16

In this episode, I recovered the seat of my CB750 project bike. I am building this bike to be a road-going runner, not a full restoration. The bike is a bitsa, and didn’t come with a seat when I first got it. I bought the seat that I am restoring from a large national breaker. I knew that it would require recovering, but it turned out to be a little worse than I expected.

Here's what I used in this video:
Rust converter: https://ebay.us/7scnRS
Seat cover: https://ebay.us/CYT7AM

I only intended to recover the seat, but when took the cover off, and removed the seat foam I found that the seat pan was very rusty. Although it looked quite bad, it was all surface rusty, but very crusty.

I decided to treat the rust with a rust converter, then paint it with some two-pack paint so that the rust wouldn’t easily recur. It came out quite well in the end. Certainly not a concours finish, but it should be serviceable for another few decades.


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