A little progress

A few little bits cleaned up and polished. Just waiting on some little odds and ends in the mail to finish the front end. It should be a roller soon. Got the new piston and rings so I'll crack open the motor soon.

Primed and almost ready for paint. A little fine sanding to smooth out rough spots.

Rear shocks

Tonight I was thinking about giving the bike a little more clearance underneath. I considered welding on a new bracket and shock pin but, then decided to try a shock from the TLR200.

Picture with the shocks that came on it measuring 12 1/2" eye to eye with about 2 3/4" travel. Not sure if these are the original factory shocks or not. They sure ride low especially with my ass on them albeit cool but, not so much when navigating through rocks or crossing water.


With the TLR200 shocks measuring 15" eye to eye with about 3 1/2" of travel. Damn that makes a big difference. I will have to modify the brake pushrod probably. I like and will go with it when it comes time. Plus it doesn't interfere with any of the rules in twinshock trials competition should the bike be used in such a manner.

Disassemblification

Getting it all broken down finally. If I had a dollar for every time I cussed at rusty, frozen bolts on this bike I'd be a millionaire and could buy factory bikes all day long. Eh.. but what fun would that be???



The front axle gave me hell until I got out a big ass hammer. Steel + aluminum + heat/cold + h2o = stuck. Same with the swingarm. Except there is supposed to be grease in the swingarm. Well I guess the factory squirt 34 years ago isn't doing the job anymore. Imagine that.

Carb and Mag

Cleaned the Carb and found enough dirt to start a potato farm. The process was simple enough. Not much to these little Mikunis.



Cleaned up the breaker points and wired in a new condenser. Replaced wiring to the mags. Good enough to get a spark. During the engine clean up I'll see if some CLR can cut the mineral deposits.

First Impressions

It's a real snotter. The wiring harness is mostly gone. It seems a dog had its way with the front fender. No one liked it enough to bring it in from the wrath of the desert sun. Rust rust rust. But, it did have the redeeming quality of smooth piston action and a satisfying foop-foop-foop-foop-foop when kicked.



Lovely.



When buying it I remarked about the gas capless tank and the guy just kind of shrugged. Guess Im going to have to figure out how to clean that mess up. I dont really want to have to change a fuel filter every 30 seconds.



Cool headlight though. Im tempted to save it for another project since after all this is going to be a full on trials machine and such amenities only become bothersome extra weight.




Chewed off wires, an iron oxide infected chain, and one stuck-ass, seized-on, son-of-a-bitch-ass magneto to get off. Finally after breaking an AutoZone rental pulley puller, it slid off to reveal calcium and lime deposits on the electrics inside. The points were fused together and the condenser was eff'd. This leads me to believe they left this thing to be drowned by sprinklers. Nice.



Sweet! An autolube pump. Errr now a new paperweight. Apparently when you roll on the throttle, the pump produces more oil to be injected into the intake charge. Beautiful design but, I think I'll stick with the premix to keep it simple. Dont even want to know what the little seals and o-rings look like in that thing.