I love the way you regularly pop back in with “I found this in the hoard.” I wish I had a hoard like yours.

Can't wait to get home from work to watch this tonight. Thanks Mustie1, you are really making great videos!

That orange and black really makes that bike...very nice work Mustie!!

.........I'm 63 years old and very much enjoy watching your videos, gawd, how I wish I had half of the garage that you have. Great workplace and tools to fix everything. Even a 'lift' to help you get under your projects. Unfortunately, I live in a condo and don't have the luxury of having a place so well decked out to work in. when doing my reno projects. I also wish I had the knowledge that you have in working on cars, I can diagnose problems but don't have the understanding to be able to pull a motor apart and put it back together. I should've taken those 'shop' courses in high school. :)

I like the look of the original paint when with the left over black. It has a nice old patina to it especially with some of the bare metal showing through.

Pull as much of the old color out as you can without too much damage, clear coat and done. Let it show it's age a bit..

I never considered using hot Peeps to clean paint with,you are the wizard!

That peep scene was so random and hilarious... Keep up these great videos - I am having a blast being a part of these projects!

I am looking forward to spring and summer up there for your neighborhood yardsales to see what you find, repair, and turn a profit. Looking forward to learning something new from you. I repaired my first generator and cleaned my lawnmower carb that was hunting after you showed me how.

I dig the orange and black all messed up look makes it look one of a kind. Maybe new pipes idk. Cheers Mustie Thanks for the vids!!!!!

Tank looks fantastic as is though i have never been a cosmetic or chrome lover.Function over form like the old days.Thanks for the great vids.

Great one Mustie 👍 It’s coming on a treat 😁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The bike looks great. I like what you are doing with the bike.

Greeting from Czech Republic. I had couple of Jawas. If you need some parts, it's easy to get some, here :D

I owned a 1977 model of this bike that was black. The only colours available were red and black. The 1973 first production model was maroon, even the frame. I've owned one of those too but sold it to a collector / restorer who wanted a show bike.

Looks like its warming up there. Well done for persisting with the paintwork

Hey Mustie; I had a Kenda tire wear the same way, it worried me, didn't know it was, I figured it was bad suspension or balance, it was in fact the tire its self. Enjoy your videos, have for along time, keep' em coming .

that rat rod atv thing at the end is awesome! You have all the good toys! I want a play date lol

moving right along with the jawa cant wait to see it when its done :D keep up the good work my friend :)

You must have a great wife, because you sure burn the midnight oil in your shop. Bless your bride to be able to understand your passion, and dedication to all us gear heads out here watching your video's, knowing we've experienced a lot of things you run into as we caught ourselves in those do I or don't I situations. Keep up the good work Mustie1 and keep videoing because we all learn something from you

That good chrome paint you were referring to was called NTTC - nearest thing to chrome . It was good stuff !

Simon from the UK here... Hello brother🤣 if that was mine to keep to play on I'd just clean it up and run as is. I always enjoy watching your videos, pity you can't take us along when your out doing bits to earn money as I think everyone would enjoy seeing that. I'm moving out with the wife so get a trailer ready for us to stay out the back of your woods 😉🤣👌 ( I wish ) see you on the next one.

Great job as usual Mustie.

Great job, looks amazing.

Mustie! You murdered a Peep! Oh, the humanity! Enjoying the bike fixup, but a smoking Peep was a nice bonus!

I’d leave it with a bit of the sanded black with the flat orange with the bits that sanded through give it a Matt clear coat I think it looks cool as a rat rod type look cool work your videos are amazing thanks for the hard graft put into them all the best god bless big hello from the Uk

Hey man, usually when a front tire is chopped up like that, it's from running it under inflated. Happy tinkering. - Chris

Dude, keep it the way it is... By the time you get all of it done it will all look good.

'Let's go shove a Peep in the microwave.' Bravo sir. I laughed a lot at that.

When you speak the V in Jawa like a W, or like YAWA it will sound better. Greetings from a german Jawa owner

The old shop brings ya back you know 😀

Orange is the new black! Good show.

Nice anvil!! Wow that was a find. Nice videos brother...keep up the same work. :-)

Can I come hang out in your garage ? I`d be very helpful, pointing out your mistakes, restoration ideas, unwanted advice. Of course I`d be begging you non stop to play with all your toys, and nosing around in all your VW parts as well. lol Thank You for sharing your video, and bringing us into your garage once again. ATB

Laughed about peeling off the chrome. It drives me nuts seeing you do it, even though I know from a lot of repeated experiences that it’s coming off whether you peel it or not. Must be too many years of running beat vehicles on a shoestring. Great videos.

I remember that chrome looking rattle can paint that you mentioned that looked like chrome.it was available in the 70’s.i painted a set of stock steel wheels I had and put baby moon caps on.you had to look quite close to see the difference in them

the bright orange works well in small doses. good job you have that side cover for the fuel tank . . ..

I think the exhaust wrap is gonna be the best look. You could even paint that darker if you really wanted too.

Something you could try on the rougher parts (or the whole bike) is to repaint and once dry you could sand it back (or sand through) a bit to match the less rough areas and make it all flow together. It works really well for aging hardware too. I'd love to see it closer to original paint but with the wear it would have had in its life time. They were tough bikes. And the aging would only add to its character.

love that finish on the jawa, Love the patina :-D

I love the gear wrenches that awesome

Lookin great! Keep up the good work :)

Yeah don’t try to make it pretty. I like the rough look. It’s kinda your thing man. Don’t let others get to you. Like you said if they want to completely restore it, they should make you an offer. Anyway looks pretty cool to me Musty. Keep it up.

Whish that I'd have been there while you were doing this... those rims were screaming for plasti-dip. they make the stuff in chrome and aluminum and you can clear it for a shine. Works great on wheels.

I like the Look that you have brought out! My 2 cents. Matt C

I use a sanding sponge for these kind of things. Works well. It work for sanding small engine cylinder walls to get the cross hash for new rings.

Looking good as long as your having fun thats all that maters

My dad used to run those barum tires on his triumph, they were great tires for the track and drag

Darren, what about regular ole rubbing compound (red) paste for clean up of the chrome? I've always had good success with that in the past.

It looks cool halfway done. Clear coat it and be done with it weathered looking!

Jawa is a motorcycle manufacturer in the Czech republic, formerly Czechoslovakia. It was named after its founder Janeček bought the motorcycle production of Wanderer in 1929. The company is still active today. Jawa is pronounced (roughly) "Yah-va"

*Mustie1* I was still hoping you would try Gojo orange hand soap with aluminum foil as the scrubber on that chrome (and test on other parts). It works wonders, a friend who restored 100's of bicycles showed me that trick. He showed me a rusty bike I thought was beyond redemption, I left for a half hour, when I got back the bike looked new (the rims were chrome steel, and absolutely shining, no more rust pits!). Thank you for all your excellent videos.

Ok! Just weld up a cage from rebar and mount it on the back and you're good to go!

ive used finger nail polish remover and an yellow kitchen sponge on the coarse side and it did pretty good removing rattle can paint from an old bug over original paint ...good days work and sore hands

The technology and also the chrome looks very much like the Tomos moped I had in the early seventies.

Mustie done one of these camouflage and matt black paint on exhausts and highlight the bolts in red looked awesome ...incidentally came with sidecar in uk john uk

Mustie chrome scabs are made for picking it's just fun to do!!!Nice Dump!!!!🐦🐞🐝🐌🐇🐓🐁🐭🐮🐖👍👍👍👍👍👍

Why Not Nickel plate instead of chrome its easy to do and safe and inexpensive buff it up and you will never know difference

I believe that woven stuff is intended as RF shielding for cables and the like, but it can certainly also be used as ground strap. Or to cover ratty chrome exhaust pipes. :-) I was thinking of using the wet&dry to key the black paint and then go at it with the acetone, but then I saw what you did with the steel wool and the acetone, and I suspect it was about the same result or better. I came across some chrome paint a few years ago that was utterly amazing. It went on as almost a slurry that didn't look like much of anything more than scrambled eggs, but after a few moments it got its act together and turned into this absolutely mirror finish chrome-like surface. Didn't look at all like the usual aluminum "chrome" spray paint. Unfortunately I can't for the life of me remember who made it or what it was called, so that isn't much of a help.

The front tire ‘Barum’ is a CZ brand tire, actually good tires, I had some 28 year old tires on my truck that were Barum CHemlon - hardly no cracking or dry rot even when flexed after airing down. Barum is now part of Continental.

Yaya yawa jawa 😂😂😂🤣 and thanks for the brilliant repair 😄

They have powder coat chrome and it looks good if it done right. Good bit cheaper than chrome. Might be a thought if you want the rims and chrome parts looking good again.

I bet she feels much better cleaned all up like you did for her.

The seat and front/rear fenders are very clean so in my opinion i would paint the tank/side panels and front/rear shocks. I would wrap the front section of exhaust and matt black the rear sections with high temp paint, this would not cost much at all and would make it look so much better.

As you probably know, Jawa is one of the main builders of engines used in Speedway racing.

Wow your VW looks great.

Love ya Mustie, BTW, solvent vapor fires burn explosively fast and set a deep lasting memory if you survive. I was lucky. You seem to be too!

Agree w/ James Price below. Wrap the downpipes, sandblast and black hi-temp paint for the mufflers. Won't cost much money & will make a big improvement in the looks of the bike. And as long as you have the sandblaster out, you could blast the rims smooth and then spray them with satin silver paint.

In the 1970s there was a Jawa 350 Californian. It appeared in the typical black and red coloring from California beaches to New Zealand.

If your going to leave the paint as it is I'd paint the wheels and exhaust is a high heat silver paint. Not the fake chrome but like a header style silver. I say silver so it will match the case color somewhat. Awsome motorcycle. I'm a big fan of two strokes anyway.

That chop in the front tire is normally called feathering. It’s caused by worn shocks letting tire bounce. I’m sure in this case the fork oil is low or something else hindering the fork from operating like it should. So as it rolls down the roll it hops fast causing uneven wear.

Depending on how old the tires are in depending on where it was located through the years the belts and certain types of tires will actually break but the rubber won't give away so therefore you get lumps of divots in valleys inside your tread I remember the 50s it through 70's model glasspack tires the belts and then would break but the tire would not give away

Never Dull for chrome. The best stuff ever!!!!

I guess this is watching paint "undry"!! Take care. Doug

I had a similar situation on a Honda which had been rattle can painted. The paint just wiped off with cellulose thinners. The original paint just needed polishing afterwards.

It looks good for what it was and will still be a good road bike.

Some black paint in the Jawa emboss on the tank side covers would look good - promote the brand

I like the look you got going. My preference in bikes is usually stock. At 34 & 36 minutes it looks a bit like a cafe racer. If it only had a 'gunfighter' saddle.

Great video bro.

A 350 2-stroke?? this must have been a beast back in the day I would love to see a full engine rebuild in this and see it rip the road

That bike was never meant to be a looker as it was a workhorse so the current look you are going with suits it well I think.

A bit of masking tape on the hammer face will protect the paint on that headlamp bracket, while you straighten it.

Metzeler's ME22 s are nice tires on the 634. Had them myself on mine, no complaints here. Quite cheap too, but not garbage cheap. Obviously not as good as Bridgestone' BT45s on the wet.

I'm pretty sure that Barum are a Czech company so there's a good chance that front tyre is either original to the bike or is a replacement supplied by a Jawa dealer. With the number of US tyre manufacturers there were in the '70s and '80s I can't imagine there would have been much market space for Czech tyres in the US unless they were unusual sizes or specs. Barum tyres are actually pretty good on cars and vans though I have no idea how they are on bikes...

Orange you glad you bought this?

I don't really no but there are some pretty shiny paints out there . I seen a Cadillac painted shiny pink and Justin bebers car is pretty shiny too dosn't look bad . Really it's pretty neat that you can paint on a chrome like paint.

I've not done this personally but you can polish old chrome with wadded up aluminum foil and soapy water.

liking the look!!!!

when sanding with steel wool, go ahead and just hit the edge of the fins, always looks good

You can paint that exhaust after scuffing well w/ sandpaper. High heat black/babeque paint? Just a thought. Keep up the great vids!

The scalloping in the front tire is an indication of improper tire inflation or suspension issues.

last time i worked on a 2 wheeler i did a complete teardown to frame started over. had the tins beedblasted repainted, but hell it was way back in day when in HS. so long ago..

Know I'm watching the right vid when I hear: " Hey guy's - and - UH - Welcome back."

You need some genuine "Chris Fix Brand Soapy Wooder." It works wonders. LOL

When you get done with that Jawa it's going to be nice.

You can send on the black for a little bit then try the thinner once you get the top coating off the black and it should wipe right off

One man's opinion. I like that orange.

🇦🇺. Good job thanks for sharing

Mustie Checkoslovakian alloy polishes up marvelously if you use a buffing wheel :)

The tread pattern on that rear tire was called "universal" back in the day. Coker tires sells vintage style tires with that pattern. Other places too I expect.