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  • Restoration of Bajaj Chetak-From hibernation to awesomeness

    Bajaj Chetak. A scooter which carried an entire family of four comfortably through the Indian roads. A machine every child of late 80's and 90's admired and wanted to ride but waiting for an age to ride on own.Its aesthetic look adds majesty to the rider.
    it was the fastest scooter for me that i ride till I got the new pulsar that I got few years back.moving the Chetak is equal to getting gold medal in weightlifting.its sound helped me to get inside my home and ‘Acting’doing homework even when my dad was far from my house.It was my first vehicle that I drive on my own. it was the chariot that made me feel like a king.
    From standing in front of Chetak to sitting between my dad and my sister and mom to riding it alone,this Bajaj Chetak gave me lots of memories.A real middle class vehicle that ruled Indian roads over a decades.
    Unfortunately it was the year 2009 which jolted the journey the Chetak and halted the machine speedometer till it was restarted in 2016.

    It is just not a story but a rebirth of a Chetak.
    ⚠️Take care of your bike, It won't let you down

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    Re: Restoration of Bajaj Chetak-From hibernation to awesomeness

    Restoration Thread Approved

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    • #3
      Re: Restoration of Bajaj Chetak-From hibernation to awesomeness

      It is just not a story but a rebirth of a Chetak.

      2009,
      The year in which the Chetak's ignition was turned off.Due to a fracture in my father's left wrist. it made him difficult to shift the gears in Chetak.As I was in my early teenage I was not allowed to drive the scooter.My father got then tvs Xl which was easy to handle due to its less weight.Arrival of XL further extended the rest of the Chetak in the backyard....
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        Re: Restoration of Bajaj Chetak-From hibernation to awesomeness

        It was in the same position for five years without any moment. It looks like an athlete tied in the bed without allowed to play for long time.
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        The first question arise in my mind is that will it move because literally tyres are torn away from the rim also we are sure that engine must be seized and gears,clutch wire,brakes are jammed that even we can't move any further. After some hard trying we made the scooter to move so that we can move it till the mechanic shop
        After we move the scooter to road from the backyard.(see pic)
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        ⚠️Take care of your bike, It won't let you down

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        • #5
          Re: Restoration of Bajaj Chetak-From hibernation to awesomeness

          Now the scooter had woke up to see the sun light from the hibernation.
          ⚠️Take care of your bike, It won't let you down

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          • #6
            Re: Restoration of Bajaj Chetak-From hibernation to awesomeness

            Waiting for images of beautiful baby[emoji4] .
            Iam also an owner of bajaj chetak .


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            • #7
              Re: Restoration of Bajaj Chetak-From hibernation to awesomeness

              THE RESTORATION OF THE "Hamare" CHETAK

              I 'surrendered' my scoot to the mechanic who was the close friend of my father.He is the one who helped in the restoration work. After the through inspection,he quoted the initial list of the spare parts.
              One of the hard phase of the restoration is the availability of the spares. There is not even a single shop with the spares of Bajaj Chetak in pudukkottai,TN. except the electrical parts. But I found a shop at Tiruchirappalli(50kms near to pudukkottai). DJ SPARES Is the shop where I got the spares immediately without any delay in availability. I got everything there including the logo designs. From vijay to dio we can get everything from that shop.Thanks to them and the spare parts manufacturer.
              Meantime the scooter was cleaned & water serviced. Old yet usable tyres were replaced the torn tyres so that the scoot can be moved.
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                Can you friends believe that it’s the same scooter that we have seen in the past posts...
                ⚠️Take care of your bike, It won't let you down

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                  Re: Restoration of Bajaj Chetak-From hibernation to awesomeness

                  Tinkering the scooter
                  Dissembling the scooter is the challenging job,it requires a lot of time and patience. We can even drop the crying child in the first day of the school but these rusted bolts and nuts don't giving up,me too neither...[emoji13][emoji13][emoji13]
                  After the dissembling of parts,we went straight to the tinkering job.That Busy tinker man asked for two days time.Granted.
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                    Re: Restoration of Bajaj Chetak-From hibernation to awesomeness

                    Those pictures are the parts of body tinkered.... and now the body is ready to get the new colour...[emoji16][emoji16][emoji16][emoji16]

                    Job completed till now:
                    Got almost all the needed spares (Friends the list is very long)
                    Rust are removed and tinkered
                    Engine got cleaned and starts beating [emoji175][emoji175][emoji175][emoji175]
                    ⚠️Take care of your bike, It won't let you down

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                    • #11
                      Re: Restoration of Bajaj Chetak-From hibernation to awesomeness

                      Painting
                      All the parts that are needed to be painted including the scooter were now 'surrendered' to the painter. He said that he need atleast two weeks for to finish his job. The amount that he quoted for the paint job is â‚ı.6500 including clear coat. After few negotiation he came down to â‚ı.6000. Choice of paint colour is ours.
                      Initially I had an idea to paint green white combination but my sister asked me to go for gold orange-white or metallic pink-white combination. Atlast our whole family decided to go with metallic green with white combination.
                      We showed the colour code to the painter and it's like almost finished.

                      AFTER 20 DAYS
                      Two weeks extended to three weeks after after completion I feel that it's worth waiting.
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                      I owe my thanks to the painter who finished the job just like I thought.
                      Now it's time for me to assemble the parts to make the scooter in whole.

                      After assembing the painted parts, scooter is getting its charm back slowly...
                      ⚠️Take care of your bike, It won't let you down

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                      • #12
                        Re: Restoration of Bajaj Chetak-From hibernation to awesomeness

                        It is a good work friend.
                        Finding the spare parts is a little task. Here also, only one shop who stock the spare parts .so I started to stock some spares urgent spares in my home.
                        Do you convert the wiring from 6v to 12v?
                        If you are posting before painting,
                        I would give a suggestion to paint the scooter by completely dissembling.
                        Ifeel it can provide more finishing.

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                        Last edited by ranjithp; 08-13-2017, 09:27 AM.

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                        • #13
                          Re: Restoration of Bajaj Chetak-From hibernation to awesomeness

                          Any update?

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                          • #14
                            Re: Restoration of Bajaj Chetak-From hibernation to awesomeness

                            Nice one!
                            Keep us updated!
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                            • #15
                              Re: Restoration of Bajaj Chetak-From hibernation to awesomeness

                              This looks fantastic! Eagerly waiting for the final pics
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