LH headlight ear cracked. RH side of headlight bucket cracked at the mount hole. Luckily I have a spare ear and new repro bucket from John at Economy Cycle bought last year because one of the mount tabs on the rim broke. I will do a better job with isolation this iteration.
Disassembly was straightforward.
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About 20 minutes in the bead blaster and the old paint on the ears plus the new shiny black on the bucket are gone.
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Put on some rubber gloves to keep my greasy paw prints off of the freshly bead blasted parts and shot a nice coat of Rustoleum's finest etching primer. I hope to paint them on Saturday with good old Chevy orange 500 degree engine enamel.
Quote from: Kawtriplefreak on March 13, 2024, 05:03:02 PMLH headlight ear cracked. RH side of headlight bucket cracked at the mount hole. Luckily I have a spare ear and new repro bucket from John at Economy Cycle bought last year because one of the mount tabs on the rim broke. I will do a better job with isolation this iteration.
Disassembly was straightforward.
Put on some rubber gloves to keep my greasy paw prints off of the freshly bead blasted parts and shot a nice coat of Rustoleum's finest etching primer. I hope to paint them on Saturday with good old Chevy orange 500 degree engine enamel.
I too have a 75 RD350B...is there one brand of Chevy Engine Orange thats better than others at matching our OEM color?
I just test sprayed some Duplicolor and it looks pretty good, maybe a little darker...that could be because I didnt use a light color primer on the test metal piece.
I have used VHT and Duplicolor. Both are good.
there it is!
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75 and sunny today in Front Royal so I stopped by O'Reillys and grabbed a can of Duplicolor Ceramic 500 degree engine enamel and took advantage of the beautiful day before work.
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get it timmy! :olaf:
51 days till Deals Gap 2024. :righteous: :righteous:
Nice! :like:
Looks great, now spray it with some spraymax 2k, or not.
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After pulling the grommets and mount blocks out of a spare headlight bucket I did a quick measurement and marked and cut an 18MM square hole in my new bucket to enable me to use the factory Yamaha mounts.
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Assembly was much easier and I managed to get it back together without buggering up my newly painted pieces. I drew out the square with a sharpie and used a small dremel cutting wheel.
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That looks great Tim
It's perfect, but it'll have to do. Nice job :thumbs:
Thanks!!
Looks great Tim! Nice work :thumbs:
Thank you!!