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I bought this bike, running, with a title. It had sand in the gas tank. The previous owner tried to sand blast the rust out. Also, while riding the bike, it sheered the woodruff key off. The previous owner never tightened the nut that holds the flywheel in place. Other then that, the bike was a great experience to restore. Now for all of the before and after pictures! Enjoy!
(Rumble Bee)
The rear tail light bracket, and base were powder coated & painted. A New lens gasket was installed.
The 46 year old plastics were restored with progressive sanding, and a clear coat, and new decals.
The rear inner fender was sandblasted, zinc plated, and coated with POR15 Clear Coat.
I used mother’s plastic polish on the black outer housing, replaced the chrome acorn nuts, zinc plated the metal pieces, replaced the faded lenses, and replaced one of the rear turn signal assembly’s, that had a crack in the housing.
I used Mother's Brand Plastic Polish to restore some color to the headlight bucket.
If you are restoring a 1977 - 1979 Yamaha DT250/400, and need a replacement seat foam, I sent Dave @ KDI a good original foam. He copied it and is selling it.
I re-used the original foam, sand blasted the seat pan, powder coated it, then put truck bed liner on the top section. Lastly, I zinc plated the hardware, and used Caswell gold chromate on the seat pan brackets. The seat cover I used was from pit replica.
New Vin sticker made by DEET. New Tappered Roller Bearings. Horn, skid plate, and tripple tree's installed.
Horn Taken Apart and Zinc plated.
The frame, swingarm, and misc parts before and after powder coating.
Here is the bike when I bought it back in 2014. The quality back then on recording cell phones was alot worse then today's phones. I also wanted to mention it is idling around 3k RPM's. The owner's manual calls for the idle speed to be 1300-1400 RPM's.