Two Morons Restore a Vintage Motorcycle Seat - Part 4 - Seat Foam Repair and New Upholstery How To
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- Опубликовано: 21 июл 2024
- This week finish up fixing our DIY saddle (or seat cover) on a vintage 1972 Honda CB350 Four. We use our bag of tips and tricks (and a handful of cheap tools from Walmart, Amazon and eBay) to repair the seat pan and seat foam. We also add a nice new vinyl upholstery cover by the time we are done. Last week we did a little nickel plating to fix the rusted chrome and this time, we are shaping the foam and laying down a new, perfect, wrinkle free vinyl seat cover! We also cut a stencil out on the vinyl cutter and spray on some Duplicolor Fabric and Vinyl dye to add a Honda Logo to the sea. These techniques should work on any old motorcycle from Yamaha or Kawasaki, or Suzuki, or whomever.
Here are the earlier videos in this restoration series if you missed them and and to check them out!
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I found a nice way to lay down your new seat cover perfectly tight and wrinkle free! The trick is to cut up a bunch of carpet tack strips and rivet them to the seat pan. This gives you a ton of little spikes to stretch and hook the new seat vinyl too. You can stretch and reposition at ease until you get everything perfectly smooth!
After the carpet spike are in place we start sanding our $10 Walmart camping mat seat foam repair. We start by rough trimming everything with an electric bread knife and sand everything to the final shape with 80 grit sand paper on a pneumatic sander.
We then test fit the new seat cover and continue to shape the foam as needed. The final trick to covering up all of our seat foam damage repairs is to glue down a piece of flex foam sew in fabric. The flex foam hides any little imperfection in the old foam below it.
The new seat cover from Amazon was really nice quality. It stretched over the carpet tack spikes perfectly. We used a chrome suv and truck door ding trim piece from O'riely Auto. The stuff looks just like the original Honda chrome trim.
For the finishing touch, we cut out a Honda logo stencil on the vinyl cutter and use a little Duplicolor white vinyl dye to spray on the logo. It turned out fabulous.
0:00 - Intro
0:20 - Installing Carpet Tack Strips on the Seat Pan
4:21 - Shaping the Seat Foam Repair
8:43 - Using Flex Foam to Smooth Everything Out
10:01 - Installing the New Seat Cover
11:29 - New Chrome Trim Install
12:45 - Installing the Seat Cover Strap and Buckles
14:39 - Adding a Honda Logo to the Cover
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Here are the earlier videos of the seat restoration if you missed those and want to catch up on the fun! ruclips.net/video/LDFhudifQL4/видео.html
Great Tips! Im working on the same seat now. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks, can't wait to see it.
"I kinda wonder what Billy Ocean's up to these days.". HAHAHA
Or Tina Turner for that matter. That was a pretty funny day. 🤣🤣
Followed all your steps to recover a CB350 seat (except for the stenciling). The results were amazing. Thanks!!!
Hey! That is great news! Made my day to hear it turned out great! What year is your bike? I am thinking about getting a CB in the future.
Cool.
Tip: next time you pull a stencil or masking off, always use a hairdryer to warm it.; less chance of paint pulling off.
Excellent. Thanks for the tip!!!
This is my favorite video in this series. Thanks again for helping me fix my seat! It is almost to nice for the bike now. I also checked it is a Honda not a Yamaha.
Bring a Yamaha the next time you are in this part of the country. I have a lot of Honda stickers left over!
Fantastic video series! I definitely got some great ideas. Thanks so much!
That is GREAT to hear from a bigger channel!!!! I am glad you got some info from my vids. I will check out your videos this weekend. Thanks for stopping by!
@@BIGFOOTBIKESANDBREWS keep up the great work. Good stuff!
@@KeepOnWrenching Will do. Thanks again!
Really nice, hope my 350seat will look same after refurbishing
Me too! Did my videos give enough info on how we did ours? I always wonder if I blast through some stuff to fast or if I forget to mention stuff. Thanks again!
@@BIGFOOTBIKESANDBREWS to me it looked explained ok😊
"You're doing it wrong!" I lol'd
That was a pretty fun night 😁😁
man i liked the tac strip idea. should work on automotive custom interior also.
Glad you liked it. I like them because it gives you a lot of teeth to fine tune the cover on. Thanks for commenting!
Excellent Job!
Thanks Bob, glad you liked it!
I always love watching your videos.
Great to hear!!!! I'll keep trying to get beeter at building and editing!! Thanks again!
Turned out great! I'll be doing mine in the next week or two. I had already ordered some fabric spike strips online, but I like the idea of using the carpet strips. Looks like it makes things easier.
Hey Paul. What kind of fabric strips did you order? I'm always looking for new ideas and wondering what you were using. Thanks sir!
I did end up using them, since I aready had them in-hand and I basically just had to cut them to length with a pair of tin snips. I didn't feel like trying to round up my rivet gun and stuff, plus, I wasn't sure how well it would work. The metal strips are pretty thin and softer than those strips you're using. I ended up using JB Weld and it worked great. After everything was set up, I gave the whole underside a coat of black paint. The strips worked great. Seat turned out really nice. My old seat didn't come with a cover or any hardware and someone had cut off the original clamps (or teeth or whatever had been there). Luckily, my new cover came with a strap and buckles. I just had to go to the hardware store and round up a couple 10mm bolts. I found stainless, large phillip head screws that fit perfectly and they look great. Seat is mounted and on the bike, but I'll need to add the chrome trim when I get time. Thanks for all the tips, man! It's like you made this video just for me lol!
@@mccoma11 Cool. Thanks for all the info! Let me know how it works over time!!!
This is the funniest video I've seen in a long time. I'm crying laughing some times 🤣
Thanks, that was a fun day.
You can call it a seat cleat?
HA, I like it!!
great work man! keep it up!
Thanks dude!!!!
What a great series really enjoyed it and the results you achieved are amazing you have given me plenty of tips for when I tackle my DRZ plank of wood loosely described as a seat lol.
Hey, that is great! I am glad you got some ideas form the videos! Best of luck with your project!
Honda XL600R. The R stands for Rek. 🤣🤣🤣
Wouldn't it be a XL600W? All well, we aren't very smart. 😀
Great job i have a 1971 sl350 .i need a good seat cover, where do you get one
Hey John, I usually get my covers off of ebay. I just searched for "1971 sl350" seat cover and it looks like there are a lot of sellers out there.
great video.. any links to foam and fabric foam
Hello Steve. The fabric foam I use can be found by searching for "Pellon Flex Foam Sew-in Fabric". I is available online or at Walmart or Michaels or hobby Lobby. the blue camp mat is from Walmart. You can find it by searching for "Ozark trail Closed Cell Camping Mat". I hope that helps!
@@BIGFOOTBIKESANDBREWS thank you
@@coralhippie Any time!