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Important Notice:
Forward Air Has Raised Their Prices!!!!!
What Was $125.00 Last Year Is Now $420.00 To Ship A Bike From Florida To Los Angeles
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We
started with a frame off E-Bay and bought each part from other bikes all
across the country. We will show you step by step how we painted, replaced parts, refurbished old parts, who we sent parts to get cadmium plated and chrome plated to.
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We found a person making a shock tool that is
much better than ours and is asking a very reasonable price. He also makes
the wrench for taking off the handle bar nut. I recommend using both of these
items for doing a full restoration. Jeff has also just started making the
ignition nut wrench. Please email Jeff for prices.
res047vz@gte.net
Or go to Jeff's web
site at: Jeff Rieder |
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This is the shock top portion after disassembly . We put a small amount of bondo on it to take a dent out of the muffler area. The spring we will send to get chrome plated along with all the other chrome parts for several different bikes. |
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We purchased this 220 grit sand paper wheel at Home Depot and used it on the lower aluminum portion of the shock to remove any deep gouges and bring us down to a smooth finish. |
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We then hand polished it with tripoli buffing compound and a stitched muslin buff to bring it to a shine. |
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Lastly we used a wire wheel brush to give it the original brushed finish. These aluminum rear shock bottoms were not clear coated with paint as were the CT70 front and rear hubs. I have seen other web sites telling people to clear coat them and this is not correct. |
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With some lacquer thinner we cleaned the black plastic bushings along with the rubber shock mount bushings and reassembled the shocks. We have about six hours in restoring both shocks which is a bargain compared to the N.O.S. ones we saw sell on E-Bay for over $250.00. |
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These brand new 1971 Honda Trail 70 KO H
shocks are still available from your local Honda dealer under part number
52400-098-971ZJ. The orange ones are available too! I think the reason is
they are still available is the fact that
Honda calls them K1 when actually they are KO. What makes the
difference is KO has no black plastic sleeve
under the spring and K1 does. No one has bought up these KO shocks because
they have been sitting in Honda inventory for years with the wrong part
number on them.
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HHello,
I just want to thank you for having the
GREATEST web site in the world........ I love all the great info you post
on your site. I am a longtime minitrail fan, I am 31 yrs old and love to
work on and restore these little machines, I am only into the Ct70's
though. I just got my green shocks from my local honda dealer, and I have
you to thank for that...So thanks so much....... I do need a little more
info from you, I need the part number for the orange shocks you say are
still avail........ Can you email me that number?????
I would appreciate it!!!!
Thanks, and keep up the good
work....there are alot of us out there who really appreciate all your hard
work.
Marc
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Mini
Bike Boy Gets New Bike!!! 1971 1972
Red K1 H Restoration
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