Front End Restore Hodaka Wombat

New brake levers (aluminum instead of black) headlight bucket remounted.  New cables, Everything looking good. Fender too.  

 

Carb Mount

New stainless mounting fasteners, Fresh vapor blast, new Oring seals, and a new set of floats (Old floats fell apart on disassemble),  

 

Engine Back in

 

Hodaka Brake Pedal Restore

Crusty Brake pedal, torn rubber,  Yuck.

Clean brake pedal, repainted, new rubber, NICE!

 

Forks mounted

 

 So i had been turning that scoring over in my head on the cylinder wall.  

when reassembly the motor, I ended up snapping the piston ring and the small rib on the piston itself that separated the rings.  At first I was pretty frustrated, but after mulling it over decided it was for the better since I could then address the scoring.  Turns out the motor had already been bored to .020" over so the next step up available was .030" ( I believe there used to be .025" over pistons and rings but those have long since dried up).

So I did what any intelligent machist would do. I made a fixture for the lathe to hold the cylinder. 

And then chucked up the cylinder in the lathe and centered and aligned it carefully .  THis level of accuracy is only for experts, not ametuers.....which explains why....

When I discovered the Hodaka specialty parts supplier I purchased the new piston and rings from also offered boring, i quickly tore down my setup and happily shipped it off to them!

I packed it so well with foam individually cut and numbered so it could be packed back easily, the gentleman at the other end wrote a nice hand written note for me. Like I said, this type of accuracy should only be attempted by experts....

 And after blast. Already posted a pic of the carb, but worth admiring again.