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.

 Carb Disassembly and prep

One of the floats was broken off. New one ordered and on its way.

 New fork Boots

Got some new fork boots as well.  

Misc Vapor Blasting

 Random Parts : Carb etc.

 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.