1987 Trek 520: Hanging parts II (Drive train)

Hope everyone is safe and sound during this very odd time.  I have been making (slow) progress on the 520 as I just started a (remote) job last week.  I found 2 additional new brake pads but they are mismatched, I decided to use them anyway on the back where less of the braking happens.

got them mounted and I will test thoroughly once I get the bike road worthy.

The cleaned and lubed shifters got mounted.

And I ran both the derailleurs through the sonic cleaner and then lubed them as well before mounting them.

I also cleaned up the mounting bolts and lubed all the braze on threads and mounted up the bottle cage and rear rack.  I didn't take a picture but the crank got cleaned up and its ready to go back on as well.

So I have progressed to here and my next big hurdle is to take apart the wheel hubs and do those bearings.

Ride.Smile.Repeat

1987 Trek 520: Hanging parts I (Brakes)

As I'm staying home allot during this weird time and wait to hear what happens with a contract job I am supposed to start (remotely) I, like many folks I suspect, have time on my hands so I am working to finish up the Trek 520.

I cleaned the brakes in my sonic cleaner, I lubed them and the mounted them.  For now the rear brakes are keeping the same pads since the rears provide less stopping power than the fronts.

The fronts also got cleaned and lubed and they got new pads since this is where most of the braking happens.

I put the shifters in the sonic cleaner as well, still zip tied to keep everything in place.  As a result of the issues I had with sysmetric shifters on the Novara I decided not to disassemble the index shifters rather I flushed them with Tri Flow and after they dry I am going to mount them intact.

Today the derailleurs went into the sonic cleaner so next time I will post about the drive train.  The cockpit was easy because I had already updated it before I took the bike apart so I just remounted the bars stem and brake levers and the seat post and saddle.

Ride. Smile. Wash your hands. Repeat.

1987 Trek 520 -getting the frame back together

The 520 rebuild has drug along but I finally got a coat of wax on the frame and fork.

Which allowed me to install the BB, I ended up using the cartridge bb from the Allez sport rather than redoing the cup/spindle/bearing set up. 

Yesterday I ran the headset through the sonic cleaner so today I got the cups reinstalled.

Which allowed me to get the rest of the headset installed and reunite the frame and fork.  Now that the frame-set is back together I can start getting parts clean and hung on the bike, so hopefully this rebuild is on the up tick.

Ride. Smile. Wash your Hands. Repeat!

1987 Trek 520 Paint touch up

After the last of the rust removal I did a treatment of the interior of the tubes with some rust inhibitor.

And this time for touch up I was going to do the right thing,I had read somewhere that I could go to Lowe's for paint match and get a small batch of paint for about $5.

I tried, I really did, here is the frame at Lowe's however there were two issues, one the cheap small batch only applied to interior paint and more of an issue, their scanner could not work with my frame so no matching.  Sigh.

I decided to go back to my nail polish option, I had some gray I thought to try in a place you wouldn't see it, the underside of the chain stay.  Its a good thing as the match was way off, silver rather than dark gray but the metal is now protected.

I used my color matching app on my phone to get a red/wine color in the general ball park, not a great match but it will protect the bare metal.

Now that the rust has been dealt with and the bare spots have been touched up (I used clear polish on the rest of the gray spots rather than having more mismatched paint spots) I can move this project along.   I am hoping to move onto the hanging stuff off the frame portion of our program.  Someday, I am going to figure out the paint match thing.

Ride. Touch up the paint. Smile. Repeat.