BUDGET Motorcycle Seat Restoration - PART 3 - Seat Foam Repair

BUDGET Motorcycle Seat Restoration - PART 3 - Fixing The Seat Foam

This week is PART 3 of our Classic Motorcycle Seat repair how to video series where we take a break from the welding and painting and riding the vintage Honda dirt bikes and 3 wheelers and we try our hand a dirt cheap restoration of a destroyed seat off a 1972 Honda CB350 Four. We use our bag of tips and tricks to fix repair the seat pan and seat foam and add a nice new vinyl cover upholstery by the time we are done with this project. We even do a little chrome restoration rust repair with some nickel plating later in the series!!! These techniques should work on any old motorcycle from Yamaha or Kawasaki, or Suzuki, or whomever. This is just part 2 of the restoration. Please check back next wee for the next video!

Here is Part 1 and 2 of the restoration if you missed it and want to catch up!

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This week we start out by figuring out how we are going to fix the old rotted out seat foam. The plan is to use an electric bread knife to chop the top off of the original seat and use the trimmed off pieces to fill the holes in the seat.

We then, use some 3M high strength 90 spray adhesive to glue a $10 closed cell foam camping mat to the original seat foam. We then use a dual action sander to start shaping the new foam topper to shape.

---- Video Chapters ----

0:00 - Intro
0:30 - Assessing the Foam Damage
2:23 - Cutting the Junk Foam from the Seat
4:36 - Repairing Holes in the Seat Foam
7:36 - Fixing the Foam with a $10 Camping Mat
10:12 - Trimming the Camping Mat to Shape
12:21 - Next Week's Video Sneak Peek

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