1975 Honda Tl125 K2 Full Restoration Episode 3 ( Frame building )

First off i would like to apologize for the lack of detailed work and progress in this episode. I was waiting for a load of important fixings arriving so that i would be able to keep building but they never arrived on time so episode 3 will be split into 2 parts and i will finish building the frame and start the engine tear down in the next episode. ( still haven't arrived so ill be moving onto episode 4 the engine build )

The C90 restoration- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLsfVFsOgU7vgeXgbyAz1EOf__4b9CHMy

A bit of background first.

Another year another big restoration project.

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Anyway onto the bike. As you may remember i restored the tank from this bike in a previous video for the previous owner of the bike. his intention was to have me restore the tank and that would give him the inspiration to get on with the rest of the bike but sadly this was not the case. So i made him an offer on it and now its mine to restore back to its former glory.

It was initially found lying in a barn parted out and whats left is all that you see in the video so theres a lot of bits ill need to source, easier said than done! No one even knows if it runs as whoever parted it out has been long forgotten in the sands of time, then my friend stepped in saved it from the barn and now its in my possession.

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The plan this week was to have a complete rolling chassis but the lack of available parts for these bikes really is becoming a pain! But anyway i did manage to get a few jobs done.

First up i re-fitted the swing arm, All of the fixing and bushes were fitted in a previous episode. one fitted it was torqued to spec. Then i moved to the front of the frame where i installed new bearing races into the stem, as mentioned in the video using a hammer and socket isn't really the correct way to fit these races you get a special tool for the job but if you dont have the tool this method works just fine, just be careful not to damage the paint work while striking the socket.

After the races were fitted, i greased up the rollers and got them ready for installation. Once the bearings and yoke were in the stem i screwed on the bearing cap which was then torqued down to the required lbs-ft. I then sat the top yoke on and put on the stem nut loosely , it has to be left loose at the moment so that the yoke can move to fit the front shocks.

Next up i tackled the job is putting the brakes back together and refitting them back into the wheels. Its an easy enough job, fit the two return springs onto the shoes pull them part so that they go over the pivot and voila your done! I then fitted the rear sprocket onto the rear wheel yet again its another simple job thats completed in no time. you may notice that there are no locking tabs on the sprocket and thats because it is an off road bike and no tabs are needed. Just in case you thought id forgotten to fit them.

Then i free'd up some space on the bike lift and placed the frame on it so that i could fit the front and rear shocks, the shocks were attached to the front wheel temporarily so that i could keep the shocks in line while fitting them through the yoke. They were a tight fit but after a few whacks with a rubber mallet i go them sitting where they should and torqued up the pinch bolts. At this point i torqued the stem nut as well. I then moved around the back to fir the rear shocks, I am awaiting the top mount bolts so temporary m8's were used to hold them in place while i fitted the bottom dome nuts.

At this point i found out the rear axle bolt was the wrong one and that ended the video. But the next episode will be jammed packed technical stuff.

Stay tuned for part 2 coming soon ;)

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1975 Honda Tl125 K2 Full Restoration Episode 3 ( Frame building )

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