not husky...Moto Villa!!

hey guys, I have procured a 1980 Moto Villa needing a full restore. I will be photo doccing the work and im wondering if anyone here would like to see the job as it progresses. cheers

Bring it on!!! Do you have a motor to go with it?

BRING IT

Yes!

beautiful and good motorcycle once finisched
good worcks John !
www.motovillaoldcross.com

Never even heard of Villa, looks like a promising project.

How hard is it to source parts? Looks cool!

Bring it on. I owned a 1975 once.

Looks like a great winter project John, when does it begin?

there is some "buyer resistance" from her indoors so its in the container "up the back" till I get thru some more projects. I am tidying up an Austin a30 two door which had more leaks than a chinese herb garden, then the tractor needs splitting and a new clutch , steering components etc. finaly my 307 chev needs the front timing case re sealed then, I might get to the villa. should start nxt week!

they ride just like a maico with brakes

here is one I prepared earlier


View: https://youtu.be/Mm_xZ-snfa4

That sounds like a nice bike John, one of the only things I don't recall fondly about my Maico was the brakes! I look forward to the build.

haha, whats with the "bring it ons"

right, I got t he top end off the other day as I was suddenly worried about mag cases and corrosion. the bike has sat outside for a loooong time and the pipe rusted off it!!

fortunately the piston was at tdc blanking the exhaust port...

Some minor rust spots on the crank, big end looks and feels like new as does the small end. some surface rust around the top of the bore which is ok. will prob hone, check ring gap then suss if I bore or not.

will split engine and look inside, do the main seals at a minimum.
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some 30+ y/o silicon holding that mag cover on! very clean motosplat inside ...

so all up it looks clean down in the crank zone, will get it to mr Mc Hanic to rip it down.

the rider bike had some minor gbox selection issues so I will be looking closely at dogs and teeth etc

Nice practice track! The magnesium looks a little rough...

Great find. All in all it looks pretty good

its pretty powdered but a wire brush quickly brings up clean metal, worse than it looks TC

the track is at a mates 10k's from anywhere but the council man was driving past one day when 1/2 a dozen blokes were going around and he thought it was a race! a lot of official attention saw him can it for awhile.

brilliant bike but should be in the non husky category.. all good keep up with the progress.

Evapo Rust will neutralize the rust after the wire brushing