1981 Kawasaki KZ750 Resurrection

[Nessism]

If they offered prizes for motorcycle repair masochism, I'd have won today.

After the phosphate was washed off and the frame blow dried with the leaf blower, hit it with a wire wheel then the sandblaster. It's clean as a whistle now.

Copied Dale and used coal slag for blasting.

Epoxy primer next. Should be a walk in the park compared to today.

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[Nessism]

That's a big project in itself. Frames are a pain to get clean of paint.

No kidding!

Going to fire up the blaster in a few mins, but glad how the frame is looking up to this point. Going to blast around all the various brackets and down inside the steering head area. Kawasaki did a **** poor job of painting inside that steering head, behind the sheet metal bracing. I hate blasting outside, where the particles fly everywhere but it's a necessary evil. Looking forward to getting this thing in paint.

[nvr2old]

That's a big project in itself. Frames are a pain to get clean of paint. Nicely done.

[Nessism]

Phosphate sauce doing it's thing. About 90% of the rust is gone. Will let it soak for another half hour or so then rinse and dry.

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[ron bayless]

Yeah, manual on the way. Also started gathering parts like gaskets.

Researching on KZrider is even more difficult than here. Those guys must get a ridiculous number of repetitive topics because the search function spits out posts related to the search term, not threads. In particular was trying to figure out what cables to order, and wanted to see if the GPZ cables will fit on my bike because I plan to use the lower lower handlebars. Seems the answer is the clutch cable will fit but not the throttle cable because the carbs are different. Researching stuff like this is proving to be a lot of work.

yep.I dont like the site either.But its all I can find.

[Nessism]

Not too ungodly rusted by the looks of it. You may want to see how well a red scotch-brite works to clean up the rust before getting too carried away with blasting.

If you have one, you might want to try one of those small hand brushes to remove the rust from the stamped vin on the head stock. IIRC that's what I did with mine.

Hi Dale,

Yup, have some red scotchbrite pads. Good suggestion. Think I'll try rubbing the frame down with some Metal Prep (phosphoric acid). That stuff eats off rust nicely, and give the metal tooth for painting. We'll see how it goes.

[rustybronco]

Not too ungodly rusted by the looks of it. You may want to see how well a red scotch-brite works to clean up the rust before getting too carried away with blasting.

If you have one, you might want to try one of those small hand brushes to remove the rust from the stamped vin on the head stock. IIRC that's what I did with mine.

[Nessism]

Got the chain. It's gold. Didn't know that. Oh well.

Spent my Valentines day with paint stripper and a wire brush. Got something done anyway.

Lower half of the frame had yellow primer, the top half nothing. Some corrosion, but not too bad.


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[Nessism]

Check out amazon warehouse deals. Sometimes you can find really good prices on items, like the 530XSOZ1 I purchased.

Checked them out. Thanks for the tip. Prices are better than Z1.

Wound up pulling the trigger on a D.I.D 530VM X-ring chain for $65 shipped. Third time's a charm right? http://www.ebay.com/itm/251427228383...84.m1497.l2649

Got my chain today and it's not as advertised. Starting to think ebay sucks after all. Chain was supposed to be a D.i.D 530VX but they sent me a 50VA, which is just a elcheapo O-ring jobby. Better than the original I'm sure, but not what I bid on. Awaiting a response from the seller.

Check out amazon warehouse deals. Sometimes you can find really good prices on items, like the 530XSOZ1 I purchased.

[salty_monk]

I have a rear master from a GSXR you could try to adapt if that's useful...

Yeah, I would be suspicious at that price. Especially when he calls it a VX (an x-ring chain) then says it is an o-ring chain.
Hope he makes good on it.

[rustybronco]

I've bought a few things from Iron pony in the past. No issues with them at all here. I think they will make things right with you.

[Nessism]

Who did you buy it from?

Seller was Iron Pony Motorsport. Price was good, too good. http://www.ebay.com/itm/191053651332...84.m1497.l2649

[tkent02]

Got my chain today and it's not as advertised. Starting to think ebay sucks after all. Chain was supposed to be a D.i.D 530VX but they sent me a 50VA, which is just a elcheapo O-ring jobby. Better than the original I'm sure, but not what I bid on. Awaiting a response from the seller.

Who did you buy it from?