Pup-Project: Honda CB125TD-C; Resto & Beyond...

[Teflon-Mike]

[SnowTigeress]

[Teflon-Mike]

[nightshaddow]

loving this thread, sorry you couldent see but the bottle is in fact 10w

just use the amount it says in the book of lies and it should be right
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"WHAT DO YOU MEAN 100 MPH THATS IMPOSSIBLE Its chinese OFFICER."
Current rides CB 125 TDE(the next project) NS125RK ( now on the road ) CB125TDC (soon to be project 17) melody ( the nephews )

[Grimnir]

[nightshaddow]

[SnowTigeress]

Before the cruiser was stolen I was hoping to sell it,so that I could buy a Kawasaki KH 125 that had a custom paint job.

https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/odds%20and%20sods/TheJoker.jpg

But it wasnt to be as the bids got higher and higher on it.

So I asked Tef if i could have a custom paint job of a wolf cub on my tank....


ok fella`s as the bikes called the pup i would like a wolf pup done on the tank,
which 1 of these piccys would you think suit??

https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/odds%20and%20sods/imagesCAR6BTES.jpg

https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/odds%20and%20sods/imagesCA9EB9X6.jpg

https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/odds%20and%20sods/imagesCA0EJUO1.jpg

https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/odds%20and%20sods/imagesCA8W7NND.jpg

https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/odds%20and%20sods/imagesCAS883UA.jpg

https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/odds%20and%20sods/imagesCAWVF546.jpg


https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/odds%20and%20sods/imagesCALU6AKR.jpg

some pics have been changed as I did a opps and deleted photo bucket and lost all pics
Ok

Well didnt do that much today...

First i put up a Gazebo with a bit of help from Tef,as then i can work in all weathers as it rained for 2 days

Then striped and cleaned 2 sets of forks, to find the best of the stanchions and sleeves,cleaned the sleeves with a wire wheel on the drill only managed to clean 1 set of them though as killed the drill
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/forks/imag0873.jpg
Undo the top bolt on the fork leg before you take it off the yoke`s then undo the yoke pinch bolts to release fork legs,and remove the fok spring,sorry Tef wasnt fast enough to get a piccy,see the top bolt is loose in this pic
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/forks/imag0874.jpg
Empty the fork oil into a jar as it can be used for cleaning with a bit of petrol in it,pumping the stanchion to get out as must oil as possible ,Now turn the fork leg upside down and remove the allen bolt use a bar in the in the wheel spindle lug,and then another bar on the allen key for more leaverage
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/forks/imag0875.jpg
Remove the stanchion from the slider,turn the stanchion upside down as now the allen bolts out of the damper rod should just tip out
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/forks/imag0884.jpg
If you fish the allen bolt out of the bottom of the slider so you dont loose it, you can screw it back in the damper rod end cap,to pull it out
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/forks/imag0885.jpg
Uni-thread rod (M8 in this case! )is really useful to have.here used to push damper rod out the stanchion
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/forks/imag0886.jpg
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/forks/imag0876.jpg
Remove the dust seal on the slider with a tyre iron or screw driver
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/forks/imag0877.jpg
Use the screw driver to take out the circlip that was under the dust cover in the slider
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/forks/imag0878.jpg
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/forks/imag0879.jpg
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/forks/imag0880.jpg
Use the tyre iron to remove the fork seal turn it and lever round till it comes loose,as you dont want to damage the slider
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/forks/imag0881.jpg
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/forks/imag0882.jpg
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/forks/imag0883.jpg
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/forks/imag0887.jpg
look lots of lovely pieces,these all need to be cleaned
Except first i took the slider to tef so he could drill the sheared bolt out of the stantion from where the mudguard is bolted...
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/fixing%20stuff/imag0888.jpg
Centre punching a hole so the drill bit doesnt move off course
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/fixing%20stuff/imag0889-1.jpg
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/fixing%20stuff/imag0890.jpg
I had already cleaned this set of sliders,with my trusty drill and brush,and masked off the drain hole and top of the slider so when they are painted the paint doesnt go into them
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/fixing%20stuff/imag0891.jpg
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/fixing%20stuff/imag0892.jpg
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/fixing%20stuff/imag0893.jpg
With a small drill bit slowly pilot a hole through the bolt and the repeat with a slightly bigger drill bit
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/fixing%20stuff/imag0894.jpg
Hes good managed to leave some of the bolt so that it dont damage the thread
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/fixing%20stuff/imag0895.jpg
With a pair of long nose pliers he scraped out the remaining bolt
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/fixing%20stuff/imag0896.jpg
Then just used a tap to clean the threads up
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/fixing%20stuff/imag0897.jpg
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/fixing%20stuff/imag0898.jpg
One nice and shiny hole,oh and look it can still be used
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/odds%20and%20sods/imag0927.jpg
Murdered drill R.I.P
So then i had a go at sanding the bodywork down,by hand,any1 know an easier way as been told paintstripper eats at the plastic?
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/painting%20bits/imag0928.jpg
My sliders had their first coat of primer ,dont they look nice
OH and this morning a few parcles turned up Hmmmmmm goodies....................shineyyyyyyyyyyyyy,mineeeeeeeeeeeeeee Tef get your mits off my new shiney bits
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/wheels/imag0860.jpg
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/wheels/imag0859.jpg
My new X-Ring chain and spocket set
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/wheels/imag0861.jpg
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/wheels/imag0821.jpg
Goodridge brake hose
and a load more bits in the box,back brake shoes, head race bearings,an alarm,etc
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/odds%20and%20sods/imag0930.jpg
Shiney new engine bars
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/engine/imag0929.jpg
A new shock
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Suspension/imag0820.jpg
Do you think i deserve some of this now?
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/odds%20and%20sods/imag0932.jpg
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Real bikers build their own Renovated and Riding a 1986 Honda CB125TD-C called the Pup. Full Licence 13/09/2012, 1994 Moto Guzzi 750 Strada
Can-Do Girl that does spanners TOO!
TheSmiler: binning it is better than going around a roundabout the wrong way

[Freaky_1]

Love it!

If you DO actually go for the wolf pup pic, either use #4 OR

https://www.rjacksonphoto.com/images/photos/PRD_112.jpg

https://www.artofwolves.com/cwc-wolf-pup.jpg

[Grimnir]

[SnowTigeress]

[Grimnir]

Ok, thought perhaps is was a technical term

[Teflon-Mike]

[Grimnir]

It goes well with the 'special pointy thing' or my 'bendy grabby stick' - like a claw on a bendy spring for retrieving 'ping-fukkits'

[SnowTigeress]

[Freaky_1]

Maybe "don't kick the pup" should be "too late!" or "RUN"

[SnowTigeress]

[Teflon-Mike]

[SnowTigeress]

Well havent posted for a few days been to busy with stuff. We had Tefs kids for the weekend, so
took them out for the day on Saturday, after spraying the frame with another coat of black, and
gave it its first coat of laquer when we got back!
Last lot of pics I posted we'd just got the frame back from the blasters, and got the first coat
of primer on it. Spent a lot of the week adding further coats of primer, and hi-build, before
putting on the paint.
https://s1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Frame/imag1046.jpg

starting to put paint on!
https://s1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Frame/imag1048.jpg

One of MANY coats of gloss!
https://s1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Frame/imag1049.jpg

Swing-arm too.
You know.... this bit of the project is about as interesting as watching paint dry! Another
reason I've not posted much!
Between coats of paint on the frame, I've been cleaning and painting all the little nadgery
brackets and bits, ready to go back on.
Even washed a bracket.........dont know how that got in my bike boxes....I asked tef what bit of
the bike it came from he said a cupboard.................... WELL I AM LEARNING
https://s1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/painting%20bits/imag1052.jpg

https://s1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/painting%20bits/imag1054.jpg

Only real mechanics I've done, till today, is overhaul the back brake, or at least the drum bit.
Still got to do the pedal end.
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Brakes/imag1023.jpg
Removing the washer holding the brake shoes in.
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Brakes/imag1027.jpg
Levering off the old brake shoes.
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Brakes/imag1030.jpg
Withdrawing the 'cam'
The back-plate was then cleaned and painted with heat-proof paint, same as the front caliper, and
cured in the oven, before I started re-assembling it with the new shoes.
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Brakes/imag1034.jpg
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Brakes/imag1036.jpg
Fitting the springs is fiddly. after much messing about, Tef showed me the 'trick'. You dont put
the shes together like they sit in the drum and try stretching them between the holes, you thread
one spring into the hole in one shoe first, then sort of fold the shoes side by side, to hook the
other end of the spring, THEN open them out like a book to the shape that goes on the back-plate.
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Brakes/imag1039.jpg
Before fitting the shoes though, the cam needs copper-slipping and putting back in.
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Brakes/imag1041.jpg
Then the 'hinge' where the shoes pivot needs coppa-slip
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Brakes/imag1042.jpg
THEN the shoes can go in. Tef showed me another trick. Rather than trying to pull the shoes apart
against teh springs to get them over the pivot & cam, fold them like a book, so that the ends are
hinging against each other, then you can wiggle the gap over the cam & pivot. EASY...... when
you know how!
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Brakes/imag1044.jpg
and that leaves the Speedo & Rev-Counter.
I posted some wolf pictures and an idea for how to work it into a facia for the rev-counter,
before. Well we've been working on that one!
https://s1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/clocks%20and%20switches/spd_03.jpg
https://s1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/clocks%20and%20switches/tac_02.jpg
These are the new dial faces!
Well... we HOPE that they'll be the new dial faces!
We tried printing one on paper and putting it in to see how it looked....
https://s1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/clocks%20and%20switches/imag1101.jpg
Looks OK in day-light.....
https://s1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/clocks%20and%20switches/imag1104.jpg
But not so great when back-lit....
But the principle seems reasonable. Bought some Over Head Transparency film for the printer,
sanded down the original faces, and sprayed them with white primer, and we WERE going to see how
that worked....
Only Tef, printed them on the wrong side of the film and they all smudged!
So we have got to try that one again.....
Bloomin cheap-skate! ALL to save a few hundred quid on a custom air-brush tank and panels!
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Real bikers build their own Renovated and Riding a 1986 Honda CB125TD-C called the Pup. Full Licence 13/09/2012, 1994 Moto Guzzi 750 Strada
Can-Do Girl that does spanners TOO!
TheSmiler: binning it is better than going around a roundabout the wrong way

[Grimnir]

Looking *much* better than before!
When you 'high build' coated it, did you get the rusty bits near the spindle slot?

[Teflon-Mike]

[Grimnir]

[nightshaddow]

starting to come together keep it up
____________________
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN 100 MPH THATS IMPOSSIBLE Its chinese OFFICER."
Current rides CB 125 TDE(the next project) NS125RK ( now on the road ) CB125TDC (soon to be project 17) melody ( the nephews )

[SnowTigeress]

[Teflon-Mike]

[SnowTigeress]

anyway, today I put my new head race bearings in and put the headstock back together, reassembled
the forks and fitted them.
https://s1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Frame/imag1108.jpg
Drifting the bottom bearing onto the yoke assembly.
https://s1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Frame/imag1111.jpg
Banging.... sorry, 'drifting' the bearing races into the head-stock.
https://s1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Frame/imag1119.jpg
Tightening the head-race bearing pre-load nut with the special spanner!
https://s1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Frame/imag1120.jpg
The Center Stand, all fitted up, so I can prop it up once the forks and front wheel are on. Tef
wanted me to put washers between the stand and the brackets it sits between to stop it moving
about, but we couldn't find any big enough.
I had the bright idea of cutting down one of the old swing-arm bushes we'd taken out..... Tef
didn't laught at me.... found a saw and tried it! Worked a treat!
https://s1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Frame/imag1124.jpg
Propped up ready to fit forks.
https://s1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Frame/imag1125.jpg
Forks going in
https://s1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Frame/imag1130.jpg
Forks in and clamped up on the lower yoke only. This is so that the stansion wont turn when you
come to put the fork cap back on.
https://s1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Frame/imag1133.jpg
The fork oil added, after measuring out, being careful to get the same amount in each leg.
https://s1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Frame/imag1134.jpg
Tef, sticking two two-pence pieces on the top of each fork spring before we put the caps on.
Err..... OK.... yeah! I had to ask too!
It adjusts the 'Pre-Load' apparently, and he used to do this on the old TZ race bikes in the days
before bikes had multi-twiddle-able suspension.
He reckoned that TWO two pee coins would make the bike handle better..... I have NO idea why!
I DID ask if it would handle REALLY well if we went for a whole quid, but he just shook his head
and asked for the 17mm socket!
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Frame/imag1135.jpg
which he got me to use to do up the fork-caps, after starting them in the thread for me.
https://i1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/Frame/imag1136.jpg
So, forks on, and all assembled, STARTING to look like a motorbike again! Bit of faffing to level
the forks in the yokes, and Tef cocked it up! He reckoned you had to leave one leg a bit loose,
then bounce the suspension to get the other leg the right height in the yoke..... it just popped
out the top on him! Ha-Ha! Bit of fiddling got them level, though, and then I could nip them up
and put all the bolts in.
Now looking at my bearing-less swingarm and wondering are we going to be able to find new bushes
for it!
And tonight I was just getting the engine ready to start and have a look what if anything needs
doing to that and get it all nice and clean ready for the new spocket............Tef said no to
an engine rebuild at the moment as it runs................spoil sport
Then he dropped the frame from the heap, on his foot.... swore.... loudly..... threw it accross
the garden.... and I decided to call it a day & sort some photo's!
But amongst them I found one of at an engine.......
https://s1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/odds%20and%20sods/imag1012.jpg
That's the one Tef has just 'done' for the bike he's doing......
He has told me to make 'mine' look like that..... I'm wondering whether to just nick his! He's
messed about with the ignition and carbs and stuff and got it running really nice!
My carbs were horrible! all glued together with gloopy-stuff!
https://s1177.photobucket.com/albums/x349/snowtigeress/carbs/imag1107.jpg
More Bludy Cleaning!
____________________
Real bikers build their own Renovated and Riding a 1986 Honda CB125TD-C called the Pup. Full Licence 13/09/2012, 1994 Moto Guzzi 750 Strada
Can-Do Girl that does spanners TOO!
TheSmiler: binning it is better than going around a roundabout the wrong way