1975 Honda Tl125 K2 Full Restoration Part 2 ( wheels and suspension )

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A bit of background first.

Another year another big restoration project.

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Anyway onto the bike. As you may remember i restored the tank from this bike in a previous video for the previous owner of the bike. his intention was to have me restore the tank and that would give him the inspiration to get on with the rest of the bike but sadly this was not the case. So i made him an offer on it and now its mine to restore back to its former glory.

It was initially found lying in a barn parted out and whats left is all that you see in the video so theres a lot of bits ill need to source, easier said than done! No one even knows if it runs as whoever parted it out has been long forgotten in the sands of time, then my friend stepped in saved it from the barn and now its in my possession.

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The first job on this weeks list was to tear down the wheels carefully as i will be saving the rims, spokes and nipples this time as the are genuine D.I.D items and cant be replaced easily and they are in good enough condition that they deserve to be salvaged.

I pre soaked the wheels in WD40 for a few days to five the nipples their best chance of freeing off which im glad to say worked a treat. After disassembly the wheel hubs were media blasted to remove years of oxidation and dirt. Once thoroughly blasted they were polished with a wire brush and autosol to give back the vapor blasted look not to shiny but not dull either just the right look.

Then i made a start o the rims, They are made of an alloy that has been anodized silver but as stated in the video i have no way of getting them re-coated so the only option for me was to colour match them and paint them, Standard painting procedures were followed here, sand,clean,prime,clean,paint,tack rag,lacquer. Im pleased to say they turned out fantastic.

While the rims were curing i jumped onto polishing the spokes, a very tedious task but well worth the effort. I did take a video of this process but forget to edit it in so apologies for that.

After that i started preparing all of the other hardware for electro plating the first step of which is removing all the rust which i done with a bath in DEOX C. Once fully rust free every parts had to be buffed in the sketchy bench grinder to give the parts a smooth finish other wise the zinc plating would look dry and dusty on the surface. Once i set up the zinc plating baths it was simply a case of working through each part piece by piece, first cleaning, then etching, then the zinc plating itself and then a bath in blue or yellow passivate to harden the surface.

Then it was simply a case of building the wheels back up, new bearings, rims tapes, inner tubes you get the idea. I have reused the tyres as they are competition spec tyres and they really look the part so they were kept.

After the wheels were done the swing arm was blasted, primed then painted with the same high durability paint as the frame and after curing new bushes were pressed into place with the vice as using my press would have chipped and distorted the swing arm.

The i rebuild the forks, I dont have much footage of this as there really isn't much to see apart from replacing the seals and filling with oil.

But now that all that work has been done im hoping the next episode will be turning the bike into a rolling chassis :) It will be the first time it will have sat on its wheels in many many years so its very exciting!

As you can see from the results it turned out fantastic! This project is shaping up to be a good one!

Stay tuned for episode 3 coming soon ;)

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1975 Honda Tl125 K2 Full Restoration Part 2 ( wheels and suspension )