Remembering when they use to smoke

[Razor]

Use to ride in the 70's with a friend that owned an RD350. When first fired; it smoked like a mosquito fogger. Loved the sound thou

A year ago March, found this. It's a 1974 model. Ran, but needed some work.

Just after unloading it.




Had quite a bit of piston slap. Had to rebore, and put new pistons in. Afterwards, they got a coat of paint and a little polishing.




Replaced the clutch disc's and springs. One of the old disc was cracked.


Low beam on the headlight was out. At the time; couldn't find an OEM replacement, so modified the original with a modern bulb.
Like many headlights of the time; this is a one piece unit (can't just replace the bulb)
Ended up drilling the one bulb out of the housing and silicone'd a new one in its place.
Since then I've gotten a new OEM headlight, but I'll keep the modified in for know. It's actually brighter than the stock one.


Rebuilt the oil pump. PO was running it with premix.
Here is the pump being bench bled, ready to install.


Gauge covers were looking a shabby. Cleaned them up and gave them a couple of coats of paint.


The master cylinder had taken a hit at some point and needed to be rebuilt.




New tires. Trued the wheels too.


Final photo. Switched out the stock exhaust for chambers (love how they sound)