Ears and Bucket 75 RD350

[Kawtriplefreak]

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.


About 20 minutes in the bead blaster and the old paint on the ears plus the new shiny black on the bucket are gone.

 
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.

[Vincenthdfan]

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.

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.

[Kawtriplefreak]

I have used VHT and Duplicolor. Both are good.

[m in sc]

there it is!

[Kawtriplefreak]

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.

[m in sc]

get it timmy! 

[Kawtriplefreak]

51 days till Deals Gap 2024.  

[Vincenthdfan]

Nice! 

[LMS]

Looks great, now spray it with some spraymax 2k, or not.

[Kawtriplefreak]

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.



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.

[kpke]

That looks great Tim

[85RZwade]

It's perfect, but it'll have to do. Nice job 

[Kawtriplefreak]

Thanks!!

[SoCal250]

Looks great Tim! Nice work

[Kawtriplefreak]

Thank you!!