'99 Hornet Restoration

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If you've seen the 'My Hornet 600' thread, you'll know i've got a 1999 Hornet 600 in Candy Red (Not Italian Red for some reason? Whatever i like the colour ) and people said it looked pretty good. And yeah i guess it was pretty good, but not good enough for me. Seeing how i have 4 months until i can ride it, i've decided to completely strip the bike down and restore and improve it.

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How i bought the bike

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Tank off

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Draining Coolant

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Radiator Off

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Rear Fairing and Exhaust Off

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Destroyed Link Clip

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Poor thing had corroded to death

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A challenge

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Covered in penetrating fluid

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Failure! All but 2 snapped in the end

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After about 40 minutes of knocking and whacking the Downpipes finally came free, they were just surrounded by muck and corrosion

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The aftermath - Must get those studs out...

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How the bike is basically now

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Radiators fairly good

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The fan isn't

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Snapped the bolt taking the heatguard off the can :/

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Really mucky downpipes, they shall be polished!

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Fairly good nick other than the Manifold plates, they're completely corroded and bent from removing them

That took us about 4 hours to do, washed out the Radiator, cleaned a lot of muck off the engine.

I would make a to do list, but it would list basically everything imaginable to the bike, so you can imagine it in your head

Cost so far - £1650 - Bike, Abba Stand (God send, easily recommend one)

[Copied from HHOC]