Restoring my special Yamaha RZ350: Assembling the suspension & frame

The RZ is now finally getting assembled with the love and care it received on the assembly line in Japan in 1980.

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The RXZ decals/paint job were definitely an evolution of the JDM RZ 250/350 paint scheme. All the badging on the RXZ were in decals/stickers over the paint.

The RZ is now finally getting assembled with the love and care it received on the assembly line in Japan in 1980. Years of neglect and wrong craftsmanship really messed up this rare JDM RZ and I am glad I could rebuild it to a level it deserved to be in all these years…

Some pictures of it getting back on its feet again:

New rubber fitted on the rear rim

Front gets the correct factory size

Would have liked to have some better options but let’s see how these Apollos’s are

Front rotors mounted on

Old school OE spec with no holes for cleaning the pads or cooling the rotor

Rear OE spec 39T sprocket

And massive drum brakes

T set is now on

So is the swingarm and the OE mono shock

Side view

Fork legs go on

Top view

The old tubes were damaged with heavy pitting so the new ones sourced from Yambits went on

Front mudguard goes on

Followed by the front tyre

Rear tyre goes on too and we are back on our own feet

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