Honda Trail 70

FrankenBike Mini Trail 70 Restoration

07/71 KO

We pressure washed the spring and greased it up with wheel bearing grease after setting the pin back in it that attaches to the chrome tube. Make sure when re-assembling the newly chrome plated front fork to the spring that you first have the aluminum trim cap and the rubber on the tube.

Next make sure the top tab is on the inside as pictured. If this is not on the inside it will not go into position when installed into the fork. The tab is broken off in this picture. Make sure if you are buying one of the these fork spring assemblies the tabs are in good condition.

We needed to scrape some of the paint off the fork tube in order to get the aluminum cap to screw on. Next time we will masking tape off the lower portion of these threads after primering and before painting.

We used brand new throttle parts, horn button and throttle cable on this bike. Make sure to grease the throttle grip tube and hinge before the assembly in order to make it work smoothly.

The headlamp high-low beam switch was vinyl dyed with the same paint as we showed on this page http://www.hondatrail70.com/miniBikeBoy_gray_cables.htm
First masking tape off the ends and put several light coats of gray paint on.

Update: Mike Heron at www.hondatrailbikes now has the gray sheathing to put on these.

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We used the gray paint then applied a little oil to it to make it slide through the handle bar holes and rubber grommets. It worked fine with no paint coming off anywhere. If you do get a spot that comes off I would get the paint out again and touch it up. Be sure to mask off any areas of the bike so the bike doesn't get paint on it.

Next we put the wiring harness, ignition and coil in place. We had six used wiring harness's we had bought off E-Bay and found only one suitable for our needs. I have several N.O.S. wiring harness's I will use one of them for my next CT70 H restoration.
For what little bit of the gas tank that shows I decided to put a used tank in instead of a $75.00 N.O.S. one. Make sure to clean your old tank with lacquer thinner to remove any dirt. Wipe down the hoses with lacquer thinner too.

The top picture is the gas tank neck lid bracket for 1969-1971 early CT70's. Lower picture is for 1971 late to 72 CT70's. Don't get the new one from Honda if you have a 1969-72 because in 1973 they went to a steel tank and the gas neck hole is bigger. We sand blasted ours and painted it glossy black lacquer (shown in the picture above) just as the original was done by Honda. Be sure to use epoxy primer before painting.
We sent every nut, bolt and washer in to have re-cadmium plated to:
Texas Precision Plating, Inc
3002 Benton Street
Garland TX 75042
972-494-1547
They first strip any rust off before they re-cadmium the bolts and nuts. Make sure you take a rubber aluminum oxide wheel on a Dremel® and clean up the nuts and bolts. If your bike was like mine these wheel bolts have been hammered on and get a little beat up. If you send in an old beat up bolt you will get back a re-cadmium plated beat up bolt.

The headlamp bucket bolts for the CT70 are chrome plated. The flat washer and lock washer under the chrome headlamp bucket bolt was cadmium plated. The top most fork bolt again was chrome plated and this time the flat washer was also chrome plated. We used the new headlamp available from Honda for this project which comes with the non-adjustable headlamp. The only difference is it does not have the adjustable headlamp screw on the chrome bezel like the original.

I showed you the shock tool we had made on the first Frankenbike page. Here is the shock after painting and re-assembly. The top portion of the shock and lower portion were both cleaned, sanded and polished to a smooth shine. The lower shock was then textured with a very soft steel wire wheel to put back the original finish on it. Shock springs were sent to Astro Plating in California for a new coat of chrome plating.

The front wheel halves were sand blasted and epoxy primered before painting with Dupli-Color Wheel Paint available in 11 oz. spray can from Super Wal-Mart. The wheel hub was not in bad shape so we just scuffed it up with a Scotch-Bright pad used by body shops before painting. The aluminum brake hub was polished with a tripoli compound and a stitched buff available from http://www.caswellplating.com/. Wheel nuts, bolts and lock washers were all re-cadmium plated.
Rubber front fork boot, aluminum trim and gray front brake cable are available from your local Honda parts dealer.

Dupli-Color Wheel Paint Silver WP 316

We have come a long way since we started this restoration. This poor 1971, 3 speed CT70 was left for dead until we bought him piece by piece off E-Bay and took the time to restore him back to mint original condition.

Frankenbike Finished
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