Wow! I'm still baffeled how good those shiny pieces look after all those years sitting outside.
If it was my bike I'd just clean it and run it like it is right now. (After fixing the brakes and other essentials of course and checking the tranny, gearcase and pistons). No new chrome bits or paint.

But I've read about some household rust removers:
http://www.thespruce.com/homemade-ru...ecipes-1387936

Maybe you can spray some vinegar on those rusty jugs, rims, spokes, brakediscs... I don't know what it does to aluminum (as I just read it last week) but if it works as well as the article says it might free your **** and stem too.
Test it on some scrap metal parts first.

 

Yeah I was really surprised too!

I have some stuff I got on amazon that I can稚 think of the name atm that seems to a pretty good job getting rust off and apparently it痴 pretty safe for pretty much everything

I値l have to take a picture of that piece of the brake lever that was completely rust and how it is now when I go home lol


Problem with that one is it has to like soak for several hours so not too sure how to do that with big parts that don稚 fit in a bucket lol

And yeah hopefully that痴 what I can do just replace the essential things lol

 

Almost forgot the screw where it like holds it tight on the carb we completely loosened it but the little cable part is still through it and I can稚 pull it out but I haven稚 tried using pliers or anything

My dad has already twisted it completely around. You can definitely hear something tuning when it痴 turned .
If I知 looking at the right thing there痴 a metal looking cable made of more smaller metal cables that looks pretty shredded :/

He said as soon as he started twisting it and it made that noise it was probably gonna need replacing

 

Lizy,
You asked what cleaner to start with in the container/brush..
Nothing..just brush her jugs clean as Ya can first,and whatever other parts look hard to get to.
After that then some wd40 on jugs..or as Shovelsrule suggested,maybe something homemade/vinegar..
It depends on exactly what Your cleaning. If You have a air hose and a blower to also use..great
The $100 per? Thats not a joke Young Lady.. What Your doing really pays that and more.
Look up in Your thread here..Hscic put a pic of His old choke cable so You can see how they are made.
When Ya can afford them, get those factory books(real books)...Now Ive something else to holler about finally

 

the chrome is best cleaned what you have with - brillo not the cheaper one - brillo and warm water

 

So here痴 that sound it makes hopefully it痴 audible lol

and idiot me was zoned out driving home and missed the Walmart exit but I found this for now lol

 

So idk what that goes to but it wasn稚 even attached anymore lol






Yall got any tips for cleaning all that gunk out?

 

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So idk what that goes to but it wasn’t even attached anymore lol

See the rubber hose broke off? that's Her oil pump..You don't want anything to fall in there!
Cut off a 3" section of the hose,find a small bolt to put in 1 end of it tight as possible then stick the other end of hose on the pump.
Understand? We need to block off the nipple/fitting...Oh,wipe off the fitting first, after cutting off the very small piece of hose still on it.
Use a razor blade and be careful...Oh, don't reattach the complete hose back...just the 3" section with small bolt.

 

Here痴 that cable I was talking about

And where we loosened the screw

Here痴 that cable I was talking about



here痴 all those pieces of the broken brake lever without the rust lol


So the stuff was called evaporust

tried the 4 screws again and no improvement there

I couldn稚 find where my dad put all the Allen wrenches so I couldn稚 try the mirror again but I sprayed both again just to feel like I was doing something with them lol

 

I figured I should try to keep the stuff out of it I tried to push the dirt away from the opening with a screwdriver then wiped the end of the hose and set it back on top for now