Lee's 350LC full restore

[hondablade]

Full restore from modded condition as purchased (purple), to original, with white and blue as would ave been from new.

[hondablade]

Fully stripped down, well mostly except enigine and bearings etc. Frame is partly yellow?? Afew scary bits like twin core household wiring in the loom and alot of extra single wires dotted around.


Half way..


Yellow paint...


Enigne o.k, casings need paint, also new oil seal for water pump.


Most the bits..


That yellow frame??!...

[Norbo]

I realy like the look of it as it is .
But whats going on with that frame.
Are you going the full hog standard pipes rad cover and everything .

[wiggy]

Nov 20, 2008 11:09:17 GMT 1 Norbo said:

I realy like the look of it as it is .
But whats going on with that frame.
Are you going the full hog standard pipes rad cover and everything .

me too love them decals its like a photo negative of mine

[hondablade]

Yeh i admit it looks nice in those 1st photos, but close up its abit ropey so yeh ill be going the whole way to complete standard, thats the plan anyway..

Definately frame has been coated yellow then overcoated black where its seen from afar, total bodge up. Ill be puting plenty of photos up, these are only afew of nearly 100 i have already.

[hondablade]

Getting frame ready for powder coat, been quoted £75 for frame and swing arm. Got the ova bits ready aswell (yokes,brake hub etc..)



Started polishing up the wheels aswell, paint looks good as though it has been recently done so just grading with emery/wet n dry and some solvol. Comes up nice.



Also had a go at the peg hangers but not too sure, got a high polish but would prefer the 'out of factory' look so going to leave that to the pros.

My next problem is the right hanger, as you can vaguely see from the picture is damaged so if anyones got a spare they wana sell leave a post would be greatfull...


Plan is to get powder coating done then re-assemble frame and swinger with wheels and forks, following a large order from the LC crazy shop 1st;
Next pics shud be of fresh powder coating...

[Norbo]

looks like its coming alone nicely . You will fel a lot better about the build when you get it rolling then it starts to look like a bike again. It then feels like your building something not just doing all the bits up . Cant wate to see the after coating pics,.

[vin]

Looking great so far buddy

I love this stage of the build

[hondablade]

Xmas came early...













Got all the bits to get it back together now, stainless steel bits have arrived from phil denton engineering and all bits from norbo.
Just gota work out an assembly method!! Any tips for assembly would be much appreciated, any things to remember etc. Ta.

[doy]

Coming on nicely,keep the piccies coming mate

[scott]

i love gettin the bits back from powder coaters 8-)can start to be bolted back together.
is that an A/C frame

[hondablade]

Yeah the other frame is a 1976 suzuki GT 550 frame which is my dads bike he is doing at the moment.

The powder coated bits were the best xmas present early, how sad eh!

Yeh ill be moving all those after market bits on to norbo in return for store credit, lol, as ive got lotsa bits to get yet before i can get it back together properly. Just started re-assembling what i can today made some good progress got afew photos to follow in the next few days, and prob afew questions for you to chip in on, ta.....

[hondablade]

Bit of progress at last not just boxes of bits at last.....

Draw bar for fitting bushes.






Shock absorber in with new stainless steel bolt, nut and pin,




Rear mudgaurd in place aswell..


Taper head bearings all fitted in,




Yokes greased up and fitted new bearings, all in place..



Cush drive re assembled after coating, new bearings and seal, stainless studs and nuts and new sproket/washer...



Ive been researching abit more into the details of my bike as i wasnt sure if i needed to fit twin horn setup or not.. Turns out i do as it appears my bike is a 4Y3 canadian 81 model which had that original fitment, am i right? any comments welcomed...

[elsie1411]

looking good. where did the rear shock come from? is it new or re-furbed

[scott]

top job m8

[Norbo]

Comeing along very nice mate . Are you planning on it being back on the road for the summer .Asooming we have one this year .

[hondablade]

I got the shock off of Norbo, its longer than the original one but looks fairly standard. Im gona keep the old one and look at refurb so ive got the original option aswell. Duno of anyone thats got the longer shock if it makes much difference??

Yeah i need the bike to be ready by may as im heading over to the isle of man TT and if its not done i cant go lol!! Better get a move on.

[hondablade]

Bit more progress, slowly but starting to come together...
Swing arm on now, fits good, lovely and smooth..





Picked up 4lo rear light from ebay as mine was aftermarket..









Also picked up centre stand on ebay, needs powder coat and shotblast badly...

Trying to get head round loom route now as well....


Looking into re hard chroming my fork stanchions if anyone knows a good place to take them with good reputation?

[spondonchris]

Philpots mate, best in the country mega service

[hondablade]

More progress and more pics.......
















Forks off to philpots for re-hardchrome and rebuilding - cant wait to get them back.



















Centre stand in position on the bike, nice stainless spring.





Lovely stainless steel, thanks very much Phil Denton....






Wiring cover around headstock...



Bit of progress here and there but seems to be taking forever and summer is getting ever closer, cant wait to get the forks back and get the thing back rolling on its wheels again!!

[canucklehead]

Looks amazing, well done on the job so far!!

[scott]

nice work m8,looks well nice 8-)very nice s/s bits & bobs

[Norbo]

Bloody hell mate that is looking well. better get a move on if you hope to see some of the summer on it .

[hondablade]

Thanks for comments, yeh tell me bout it summer fast approaching and ive not even touched the engine yet! Better get a move on......

[hondablade]

Forks arrived!!.............








Really pleased with the forks they look brand new!! Philpots did awesome job only took 10 days and for less than 200 quid what a quality job.

1 step closer to the rolling chassis again.....

Thanks to Norbo for getting those gen yam dust covers delivered to me so quickly.

[scott]

very nice m8 they do look good

[hondablade]

yeah im well chuffed, and i would recommend Philpots to anyone on here for forks... Thanks to spondonchris who told me about them earlier in the thread.

[scoobytoo]

bikes looking great! can i ask where all the nuts/bolts washers came from?

[hondablade]

Various places really, all the really nice looking machined stainless steel has come from Phil Denton Engineering, well known stainless supplier in the classic bike world, Some of the smaller nuts bolts and screws have come from stagonset which is another stainless supplier online and other bits from yamaha dealer.

[hondablade]

More pictures more progress, got her on wheels now, sitting on brand new tires.......

































Stripping engine down this week as dont wana go too much further till thats in.