Re: The Legendry Yamaha RD 350. Yes, I have one now

Approved!

Very interesting! I'm glued.

Re: The Legendry Yamaha RD 350. Yes, I have one now




My Friend sends me the above 2 images.

My friend already informed me The place was guarded heavily, nobody could go in or come out without being noticed. Which was a blessing in disguise, the bike was there in all it's glory.

I asked my parents to help they went and spoke to the society secretary, he was a helpful man, he wanted the bike out as much as we did, little did we know he had a sinister plan.

In the mean while I called agarwal packers and movers, and booked the bike to be transported.

On the D day the packers arrived with a Tata Ace and started packing. A security guard walks up and says the secretary wants to have a word with my dad, and he drops a bomb, he wanted 12k for parking charges, I got the bike free, but I was not prepared to grease every palm on the way, after a lot of arguments he agrees for 1200 inr. And we pay him through cheque(god bless my mom and dad they saw this coming and carried their cheque book).

Some packing pics.










To Be continued

Re: The Legendry Yamaha RD 350. Yes, I have one now

OMG.. such kind of bikes don't deserve to be abandoned like this. So glad you are taking it away for good.

Re: The Legendry Yamaha RD 350. Yes, I have one now

From that moment on my endless wait started. It took them 14 days and finally I had it delivered 4th Dec 2014 night. More pics to follow.

Finally the D day arrived, i could not survive the anxiety and fell sick

I was promised by Aggarwal Packers that the Bike would arrive early morning on 4th December. i called them at 9 AM and they gave me a rude shock, the bike was just dispatched from Cochin and will arrive only by evening Frustrati each second became longer and i could barely hold myself, i got the driver's number and started calling him. Long story short, i travelled with him from cochin to Trivandrum.

Finally the truck arrived at 7 PM almost 10 hours from the time it started. There was a big dent on the tank, the crash guard was bent the centre stand was broken.

But it arrived that was the big news. Some unwrapping Pics











To be continued....

Re: The Legendry Yamaha RD 350. Yes, I have one now

Glad you took her out of garbage...

Re: The Legendry Yamaha RD 350. Yes, I have one now

My Best buddy took all the pics, after giving her a pressure wash we put her to sleep for the night. Next day being Friday we could not wait. But come saturday My buddy came early morning with WD 40 . It took as almost 5 hours to tear her down into bits. Every item was bagged and tagged. We segrigated the things into 4 sections.

1. To be painted
2. To be plated
3. To be powdercoated
4. Tu be zinc dipped

To be continued....

Re: The Legendry Yamaha RD 350. Yes, I have one now

Going back a post.

Both Me and my Buddy Tinu were anxious to see whats under the layer of dust(7 year old dust from Delhi)








It was a plesent sight to see the bike under the dust finally.

To be continued....

Pramod

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Official Teardown Pics, the mechanic looking guy in the images is yours truly







The Engine freed finally, the engine was the main reason why the bike got stuck in the basement of the appartment building, apperently Yusha's friend rode the bike without premix and the engine ceased, he still managed to ride couple of kms.









the right bank was fine (didnt have major issues) the left side was badly screwed with broken sleaves and jammed crank. The heads were not too bad.



Assorted parts









A crude Cataloging attempt.


Not too bad mudguards (surprises awaiting)





Working meters, broken right side cover



Seat Plate was great condition, the dome is a gonner.






Like i mentioned earlier, we now segregated all stuff into 4 categories. Plating, Paint, dipping and powder coating.

Looked at the chasis and welded the side stand bracket (which i procured from Hyderabad), a pulsar bracket would have worked flawlessly.

I also shopped for some other goodies. More on that later...

Pramod

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2 things:
1. The crude catalog attempt might have landed a few scars on the bonnet.
2. Why the TBHP sticker bang in the middle of the front windscreen?

EDIT: Saw the image again after being pointed out that it's actually the rear windscreen. Yup, but still the boot lid may get scratches.

Re: The Legendry Yamaha RD 350. Yes, I have one now

Welcome to the club Bro & congrats for owning the BEAST

Re: The Legendry Yamaha RD 350. Yes, I have one now

[MENTION=41586]Divya Sharan[/MENTION] thats the rear screen of the car

Re: The Legendry Yamaha RD 350. Yes, I have one now

Yup. My bad. Edited my earlier post.

Re: The Legendry Yamaha RD 350. Yes, I have one now

Man Congrats on your new find! I'm dead jealous right now. Feel free to treat what I'm about to say as rubbish but what do you think about building that RD into a amazing cafe racer? There are plenty of superbly restored RD350's around and if yours was a cafe it'd stand out. Again just an opinion .
Regards

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Subscribed! Keep them updates coming

Re: The Legendry Yamaha RD 350. Yes, I have one now

Few WIP photographs would be helpful to understand the process...
So, please keep your camera handy for the lusting eyes of the poor souls.


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