Rear Foot Pegs
While I still waited for some tools to arrive, I continued with removing parts and cleaning them as much as possible ready for painting or plating. I took off the rear foot pegs and discovered a bodge, a quick fix that I made years ago which never got repaired properly. Jamming a bolt in prevented the peg folding downwards when hitting a pothole. Annoying for any passenger, so a weld needed adding to the inside end of the peg to replace the ‘temporary’ bolt.
Taking them apart I discovered both brackets were bent so needed heating and straightening.
After cleaning up the second foot peg I later found a third foot peg in an old spares box, so I used that instead. It didn’t require any welding, just cleaning and zinc plating.
Once the rubbers were removed the metal parts were added to the pile for zinc plating, including the nuts.
Front Foot Pegs
The front pegs had no paint left on them and were rusty. Lots of wire brushing to clean them up before adding them to the blasting and powder coating pile. One of them was bent on the underside and a weld at the tip had cracked open. This was heated and bent back, then welded prior to powder coating.
The brackets were in good condition without any wear in the splines so these just needed blasting and powder coating. I restored the spare set too but these were primed and painted and not powder coated.
