BUDGET Vintage Motorcycle Seat Restoration - PART 1

This week we take a break from the welding and painting and riding the vintage Honda dirt bikes and 3 wheelers and we try our hand a dirt cheap restoration of a destroyed seat off a 1972 Honda CB350 Four. We use our bag of tips and tricks to fix repair the seat pan and seat foam and add a nice new vinyl cover upholstery by the time we are done with this project. We even do a little chrome restoration rust repair with some nickel plating later in the series!!! These techniques should work on any old motorcycle from Yamaha or Kawasaki, or Suzuki, or whomever. This is just part 1 of the restoration. Please check back next wee for the next video!

We started out by assessing the holes, sun fading and other damage on the seat seat cover. It was trash. The vinyl was junk, the chrome was junk, there wasn't much let of the seat but dont fret. We can make it like new again.

During our brainstorming process we figured out a cheap way to fix the holes in the foam using a $10 closed cell camping mat from Walmart. Think of it like a really big flat pool noddle. I think we are going to fix some of the rusty chrome hardware with some polishing and do some nickel plating!!!

The disassembly process took a little time since I've never worked on a vintage Honda CB seat before but we figured it out. Luckily the hardware was in pretty good shape and nothing was missing.

The seat pan was really rusty but we fixed that right up with the Central Pneumatic Harbor Freight special sandblaster and a little Rustoleum low gloss black paint.


- Video Chapters --

0:00 - Intro
0:25 - Gameplan
2:50 - Seat Bracket Removal
5:30 - Old Seat Cover Removal
8:01 - Fixing the Rusty Seat Pan
11:04 - Painting the Seat Pan
12:45 - Seat Strap Disassembly
14:45 - Cleaning up the Rust Chrome


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