Cleaning up the carbs

The carbs have been lying idle for many years. And a lot of varnish was deposited inside them. Took a day to clean and removal of black paint from just one carb . About 10% work still remains, since i ran out of Carb Cleaner. :)

All the internals of the carb are packed in a small box. Thats why you see the insides of the carb empty.

All the internals of the carb are packed in a small box. Thats why you see the insides of the carb empty.

Barrels getting ready for Sand Blasting

Securely masked up the barrels so as to prevent the sand blasting doing any damage to the cylinder bore.

They'll be done in a few days.

Cleaning of the Barrels

The RD barrels after the cleaning of exhaust port and transfer ports firstly with 80 grit and then 400 grit Sandpaper,diesel and finally with carb cleaner.

Cylinder Base gasket was scraped off with 80,400 grit sandpaper and then with Mother,s Mag&Al polish to smoothen up the surface..Here,s the result

The Next step is to get the outside of the Barrels Sand-blasted and Painted with High heat black paint,with capable of withstanding upto 600 deg C.Plus polishing of the fins edges with sandpapers and polish.

My RD350 parts inventory.

These are all the parts that i have right now. The inventory still lacks a lot of critical spares, but they are on their way :)

The Very Rare Rajdoot decal with the original packing.

The rear fender is a straight US import. The ones available in India are too bashed up to even bother about using them. The headlight dome and lens is Rajdoot.

The chain cover you see here is also US import. A real solid part. The baffles are not OEM , but will do the job. The kick stand , yet again is a US import.

These are OEM Rajdoot clutch plates , pressure plate, Clutch bell. The carbs are the Mikuni VM28's. Genuine and the ones which originally came on the RD. They are in excellent shape, the ones found nowadays are mostly butchered.

The stator is genuine Rajdoot one. Although i don't plan to use it ,since i've already ordered the RDDreams RD350 CDI Kit but it's a pretty nice part to have anyway ;).

Also you'll notice there is a complete rebuild kit of the OEM kill switch found on the Rajdoot 350.

THIS is a beautiful standard crank. It has never been split apart. Still all original, including the bearings. All the tolerances are in-spec as per the Yamaha manual. It has run about 5000km.

New parts arriving soon

An almost unused complete transmisson is on its way from US.

Also, coming along are cylinder heads, kick lever assembly,complete tachometer drive unit. AND , the RDD RD350 Digital CDI Kit.

Will be posting pics shortly!

Here are a few pics of a brilliant crank that i have. A similar NOS RD350 crank is already on its way to me :)




Here is a set of US Spec barrels on standard bore. They have only run 4000km's and have plenty of life left in them.