TY175: Paint

So, here's some pics of the tank, headlight bowl and exhaust guard at the painters. I sent the decals (from eBay) to the painter too. So, he painted, applied the decals and lacquered the whole lot. I believe the paint used was Yamaha Clean White. Very nice job.

 

 

And here I've rebuilt the petcock with all genuine NOS gaskets, etc, and added a brand new filler cap, cork washer and breather tube, and NIS rubber mounting damper. The exhaust guard is also mounted with NOS genuine Yamaha fibre anti vibration washers and NOS Yamaha screws.

TY175: Levers and Throttle - Update

Following on from the previous post on levers and throttle, I've finally got a replacement perch for the damaged one (Thanks Tom).

So, I now have a complete set of controls.....

.... except I don't. I'd been think about how or what was used originally for the horn and kill switch. I believe the switch above is TY175, but have realised that the TY250 has the same switch, but incorporating a horn button. So, I have this to refurbish and use instead:

As for the engine kill button - it seems I'll also need a TY250 part. Found (but not bought) this throttle with kill switch on eBay ($200 !):

It looks a neater solution than the seperate 'afterthought' kill switch. Mine shown below

And a different TY250 option below.

I'll see what comes my way first.

TY175: Rear Mudguard

This was a bit of a battle. I started with a new pattern rear guard, a NOS Yamaha inner metal guard, and all brand new Yamaha NOS fixings, grommets, etc.

So I offerd it all up, and with a lot of pushing, pulling and swearing, I managed to get all the fixings in, but, the mudguard was kinked, and under a lot of stress.... So, scratch head, and back to workbench.

As the inner guard was genuine Yamaha, I figured that would be the best alignment of the mounting holes. But, against my frame, the rear hole needed a little elongation to fit. You can just see it below.

I then had to elongate the three holes in the plastic guard to match the 3 mounts on the inner guard. Once this was done, it all mounted up OK. I had to add a washer to the rearmost mount, on the visible top of the plastic guard to hide the elongated hole, but it's not noticeable.

Below are some general shots of where the build is at.

TY175: Rear Light

I bought a pattern rear light from eBay, thinking that was a clever move. It turned out to be OK quality but not the same as the original Yamaha part. See below, the extra mounting hole at the rear of the new light on the left.....

So, I refurbished the existing light on the right. The only part used from the pattern light was the chrome strip, as the original one is scratched, and dented.

The original light cleaned up OK, I used some new grey cable sheathing, and added new terminals. It turned out pretty well, certainly far better than the pattern one.