So I totally forgot to take pictures of the individual parts after blasting. But here they are after reassembly, truing, and remounting of the tire.  Looking pretty nice.

 

Some pics of the tear down, spokes and rim ready for cleaning.

I machined some delrin plugs at work to protect the bearings for vapor blasting.,

And all of these parts ready to go. The carb intake is in the back already done. 

 

I took some pictures of the spoke pattern to help me out when I relace the wheel.  

Also looking forward to getting the hubs vapor blasted to clean these hard to reach  areas.

Onto the stand and here we go!

 After inspecting the front wheel ,  decided to disassemble it, vapor blast the hub and cover, and clean up the spokes etc. 

 Another shot of the headless engine.

I will have to pull the carb intake and vapor blast it too.

Head is vapor blasted and set on the cylinder to admire.

 So here is the final shot of the engine before inspecting. 

I will be pulling the other side covers and the head to vapor blast and make glorious. Also I will be cleaning up the cylinder and other parts.

                                                 

                                         

Head off and hmmmm. Some slight scoring on the cylinder wall. Doesn't look deep and the location makes sense (front of piston where the rocking motion would cause it to happen).  Otherwise the piston and bore look good.

 STRIP SHOW!!!!    (not safe for work)

So as I delved into the Wombat she quickly went from this...

to this...(phew phewwwww!!!)

 The top triples appear to be cast Aluminum with peeling finish etc. I will be pulling them and refinishing as well. Should really look sharp.

 The air cleaner graphics are in nice "Survivor" shape, so I won't be touching them.  A fellow vintage guy that has a wombat saw it and got pretty excited.  Started salivating at the mouth and started stringing together nonsensical words like "perfect, original....stock....must have...classic".  I told him I agreed as I gently pried the cleaner housing from his trembling hands.  I took his response to mean it looks nice.

After that I pulled the carb, only to reveal the scummy top of the motor.  It was at this point I decided it would be easier to pull the whole thing out and clean it.  

In doing that I got a good view of the footpeg mounts and sighed...more to clean.  On the plus side, I thought it was pretty cool that Hodaka was doing adjustable footpegs way back in the early 70's. Shows how out of the box they were.  You can simply loosen the fasteners and slide the whole assembly forward and back in the frame.

 Pulled the engine and started working on cleaning it up, Here is the left side before and after.

 The carb looks functional but I will go ahead and pull it, clean it, and make it pretty too. 

 Pulled the front fender.  The plastic fender itself should clean up well and I will take some elbow grease to this guy (Fender mount).

 Inspection.

Torn fork boots. Torn rear fender curtain. Lots of gunk.  Engine cover and wheels need some love.

Wombat Time

 Going to document some ongoing work on a Hodaka Wombat.

She is in nice shape overall, jsut going to do some vapor blasting and cleaning to bring her back up to beautiful.