I went on a sunday ride and came across a garage sale. out front was this busted up Suzuki 80 dirt bike that has seen better days to say the least, l bought it for $150. lets see if it can be rebuilt for cheap money.
Let's add a yard sale get out of the wind and this is out front. Little beat up little suzuki 80.. Let's miss it, a bunch of components, real quick! I can see the shifter's not connected the hub's floating in the back. That's high wrap holding the exhaust on wires are hanging out of it.
It does not have a shifter on the edge of it, but they're asking 250 i paid 150, for it seems like it worked out good. They thought it was too much. Money at 250 also tires of dry rot. So let's go bring this back to the shop.
See we can go, do to fix her up right now. I have my cougar. I'm gon na come back with different vehicles, as i do not have the heart. To put it in my trunk and beat that up, say hello to my little friend that fits in there a lot better than it would in the trunk of the cougar.
Well, it's a few days later and it's been sitting over here in the corner and we're getting ready to start on it, and apparently it has an incontinence problem that is, oil, not gas. Oh well, more to the list. Let's get her over on the operating table and let the games begin: let's get the essence up in the air that should do it get a better idea. What we have to work with it's in one of the gears.
We could probably throw a vice grips on that you can get it popped in neutral. Let's go try that and you clamp on some vice grips and see what we have. Hopefully, the shifter broke off because it got sloppy. The the teeth got sloppy on it started.
Slipping and then they drill a hole they put a bolt in it and then that breaks so that should be first gear that should be neutral. All right, we got neutral, we got first neutral. Second, third, fourth feels like it goes through all the gears. That's a good sign in neutral back wheel sounds horrible.
Let's go look at some other stuff. Let's get a assessment we have for condition. I already see right now. It's missing the bolt for the carb to clamp down on it.
So probably somebody had that carb on there again. I think it was like a 10 year old kid that had it judging by the size right. So that's whacked this. I don't know if this was a key switch, not sure what was here or an on off switch.
Don't know what's happening with that. It's like the lever is broken off for the fuel. It's not on the end of it chain. Guard's missing! That's stuffed in us! The tensioner for the rear chain tie wraps, tie wraps, tie wraps, that's a neutral, probably give it a the pop doesn't sound terrible.
It feels like it's got a decent amount of compression. My only concern really is: does it have a hole in the case somewhere? All the oil pissed out, i don't see anything at the top. The swing arm. Bushing does not look terrible.
It's not flopping around front seals either. There's no oil in them whatsoever or they're, not leaking. So that's a good sign. I don't see it bent, looks pretty straight: the fender's been cut in the front, it does have that cover.
It does have oil in the reservoir, whether that's working or not. Who knows all right, let's go cut. Some of these tie wraps off and get some of this crap out of our way, we'll get a better idea, what's happening underneath and we're still missing all the leverage for the uh brake drum in the rear suspect she does look. You know, got ta rip right. There that's for that guy, there's nothing holding the fender on that's like up and over the hill here, yeah more tie wraps. I think the exhaust is being held on by a tie, wrap too all right right there. It's definitely lost some hardware over the course of his life. Huh got one bolt in the head and one's missing, so i think it's probably got one ripped out of the cylinder head see if we can get that possibly out of our way, we'll go check for spark will be the next thing.
Let's see what we got for, it looks like the bolt broke off, they put another bolt in and then that broke off it's just redrilled and re-cut yeah. Let's get that one out of there. Hopefully this one's not too boogered up. You don't have much meat to work with in there anymore.
There you go all right. I could probably get a light in there and go take a peek and see the side of the piston yeah see what we can see got ta crank that a little bit get the rings down doesn't look terrible, though i don't see anything standing out, that's showing It's totally blowing out, so we can get that there. Now we can see right up inside it. Let's see right into the jug yeah, i don't see anything terribly damaged.
I got too much light on you. It doesn't look too bad, though good that, on the other hand, is going to be an issue with as the bottom one look yeah. It looks because this should have studs coming out of it, not both to begin with all right. Let's go get the plug out of it and see if we got spark and before we use spark, let's get the last remaining pieces off.
Just take a look at what we got happening. The gas tanks connected ain't no gas in it, though dribble i don't see any damage on the frame anywhere so that part's good there's only it was crashed real hard. You know get to the plug-in stuff easier and it's tight all right. Let's go check it yeah.
It's looking a bit fouled huh, definitely on the rich side, anyway, yeah, let's go throw it on see if it makes any sparks for us. Oh yeah good, not quite sure, what's going on with all those wiring on the other side. What that was connected to the other thing i see i know handlebars is a kill or spark. I don't see anything that runs the headlight, so maybe that was just a headlight switch.
Don't worry about that later? I guess - and we want to put a little bit of fuel on her see if she fires over real quick before we do that, though, let's go pop that air cleaner off to make sure there's not a big mouse nest or leaves or anything that we're going To go suck in, especially if the bore looks okay, i think i think it's got a filter in it at all, i'm gon na say no, i can see it's gon na have a screen of a filter, see what we get. You got a screen come on. All right most of one it's deteriorating, but there was something in there i'll just get that right out looks like it was a sunken water. At some point, too, this little 51 premix will give a little bit of that and right in the chamber. The choke is on we're gon na want that off some air get through it yeah you do it by hand. I got ta climb up there to give it a kick, strap my hand first, all right that part's good we're good with that. We just got to fix all the bits and busted stuff uh. Probably the next thing i'd be really concerned about is where the crank is leaking, where all that fluid is coming out, let's go see if he even has anything in it yet be nice.
If that was gas, but it wasn't, that's not i'm threading you got to pull it up, should have a site window in it somewhere. Let me go clean, some stuff up we'll get in there get a look at what we got and he sees a sight glass right about here somewhere, see fluid. You can see down into it, though somewhere there's got ta be a a tail. Two-Stroke, doesn't the engine itself is not concerned with oil? It doesn't use oil for the crankcase, that's a two-stroke that takes care of this part of it, but the gearbox over here around the gears uses fluid.
I see a screws missing from that cover. Let's go get this: let's get this stuff off of here, get a better look at this, too, a little bit of mud. Actually, this thing was uh, just like left in second gear when the shifter broke and just kind of rode around in second gear. I think the next best bet is actually to hit it with a pressure washer.
This might as well finish taking the remaining tie wraps that are holding things together and we could address each piece as we put it back on a little bit better. I don't think that and that's not even bolted to it. You got wires for the tail light. Let's get them unplugged come out of there getting smaller, isn't it now, it tells its tail see the rear swing arm.
Now it is not straight now. The back wheel is not straight, it could be just maybe the wheel itself, but it is wrapped it. It's like that, you're looking at it she's a peach better. Is it just a shock? That's screwing! You up like the shock, is on an angle.
Isn't it now? It's way out, you can definitely tell the wheel's, kicked you look where the chain the direction the chain is going to the engine and the way the wheels kicked over. Let's go see if it might be look at the space there. It's just starting to show. Oh yeah and that's all the way back on this side.
They just got the wheel kitty. Whompus. You can protect its bits a little bit. I can throw a rag in a bag back in a bag and shove that in the intake and keep water out, i'm gon na go put this cover back onto to keep the magneto dry so yeah we got on our side. Let's see if there's any probably got a little cleaner in there huh, i don't see any immediate hits. I see gasket material or sealant popping out of there. I think we sure should throw some oil and it looks wet all down in this area right here. Let's go: throw some oil in it and flip it back on its side, so you can see where it's dripping from as long as it's not missing from the middle here.
I think we probably have to take this cover off and reseal it. Maybe right there. It's leaking it's a little wet, but it left a good size puddle. So it should really happen fairly quickly.
I'm gon na say our fill plug is probably that screw right there we got ta, take that out and fill it up to that level and it starts pouring out of that screw and no float. No, it's like less. Let's go pull that plug out. That should be actually that wasn't even tight.
I don't think that's the leak, though it was sitting on its side kickstand. Let's go lean it towards us see if we get any food to come out of it, oh yeah, so the oil level's pretty full. I actually wonder: maybe it was a little over full. I was expecting nothing to come out of that.
Let's, let that sit, we're going to go. Take a uh paper towel. I cleaned everything off with brake clean, we'll put a clean paper paper towel underneath it we'll put the bike i'll leave a bike on the side like it was and we'll see. If we can uh find any drips, maybe we'll attack the carburetor or something while we're waiting.
The front clamp is already missing. Well, it's missing the uh, the screw that holds it that back one was not tight at all yeah. Let's see if we get the slide out of it, pretty good didn't come out all chalky, let's see if we can wiggle our carve out of there. I don't think there's anything else connected.
I am going to take a second and unbolt the air cleaner housing back that off out of our way and it'll be easier. Now you have to struggle getting it back on got to come off anyway, so there we go. It might be easier to get that. Carb out now one side or another, we got the oil feed line that is going to kiss oil on us.
It should piss oil on us. Let's put it that way. That's the premix oil we'll put that up in the air. I should have oil kind of dripping out of it.
It's not be good. If that was our leak, huh yeah there might not be anything in that tank. It might just be a stain that we're looking at we'll worry about that later. For now, we can uh.
Do a pre-mix, let's go: take the carb, we'll go around the bench, we'll pop the bowl off of it and see what the insides of that look like the outside of it looks pretty clean, might get rid of that oil injection altogether and we'll just run. Keep the fluid in it we'll just run: uh pre-mix, okay, yeah a little cruddy: it's got water floating around in it and water that's been floating around it for a while. That's not from pressure washing it. Let's get a little glass to pour that in yeah. It's had some scuds in the past. You can see all the the corrosion that's been on there so add corrosion, and somebody went and cleaned it. At one point there you see a little that rusty crappy water in the bottom of it a little little rusty puddle, and on that note, let's get the pin out of it. That's not factory.
That is the stop screw for the idle, but the slide kind of runs on. I don't think they came with that stock yeah. I think this uh bike had a slight issue with hardware. It's um get rid of the stupid thing, get rid of that and let's get the.
I believe this is gon na, be the idle air fuel mix screw, which have a spring on it that might be broken off on the end might be, i'm not sure, go. Get them there should be a spring that comes out that carb might be totally boogered. Let's get the choke out of it, i'm not quite sure what that was supposed to be either. Possibly that might be broken off, that might the pin might be broken off any of that or that might be okay, i'm not sure.
Yet until i do a little bit more probing, let's go get like. I said, choke out and i'll scribe to get that boy. That does not want to come out of there, which is not a good sign. That's just supposed to be sitting in there.
I wonder if that there it goes, and it was last night the choker wouldn't get the choke off of it sounds like a four-wheeler is going by well, i say we take it, we soak it in the carb cleaner and we see what we get. I think we may want to try to find. Hopefully i got some parts for you know car parts for the smaller carburetor. We definitely got ta get rid of that uh wood screw is in there.
This whole thing should lift right out area. It's a plunger that opens and closes a circuit for choke, and i need a big screwdriver to get the main jet out. Hopefully you can push down the center. Sometimes you can get the emulsion tube out.
If not we're not going to worry about it use a phillips, i won't dent it as much i'm going to leave it alone. There's an emulsion tube, that's the length of this inside here. Sometimes they get crudded up. It actually looks like there's a washer on the end of it.
It has crap around it. There you go yeah, it's crowded in there, pretty good, try pushing on it one more time. Sometimes you could do more. Actually you know we could do.
We could drive it right from the top. Let me go, get something that'll fit right down inside there and give it a good push on it. Drive that out of there get a deep socket, it looks like it'll fit around it, so you can get a little drive on it. Hmm, it's not going to move, i'm not going to force it because i'm just going to trash the carburetor.
I think it's just so much corrosion around that. Unfortunately, that's up inside here there's a bunch of pinholes where it kind of draws the air and fuel through and kind of mixes together and that's not happening, so you can get the maybe after we soak it. You may help things a little bit, i'm also going to take a little bit of time we're going to go scrape some more of the crap. That's up around that edge, we'll get some of that off of there i'll try it a little bit more off. Camera bought a baby, ultrasonic cleaner, half the size of the other one they had just for the size capacity. I'm gon na use the other one for other things, and we need power. This one still has a power switch. That works.
I think, where are you? I know you're in there will that cook for about 45 minutes 450 degrees. I see any tells going on here. I think that's water right now, those stains that are on it. What the drain plugs loose that are right there that looks a little suspect, hey we'll.
Let it go a little bit more yeah, it's cooking. I think we should uh look into the disaster of this rear wheel. I see only two bolts holding the sprocket on. We have no brake assembly on there.
The rod keeps it around and then the linkage that goes up to the foot pedal let's go get all that off of there see if there's even any brakes in there. Let's see, what's your guess, i'm gon na say no, i'm gon na say: there's nothing in there had no cotter pin in it. It looks like a homemade spacer. It had a bearing on the other side for a spacer on the outside.
Hey thanks! Oh please. I had shoes good well, if they're any good, i just have a set in there. Let's go throw some uh, but we'll clean them up anyway go look into the rest of the wheel, that's missing the bushing or something something's wrong there. That shouldn't be like that.
My guess is a bushing missing out of there. That's just a guess, though we have one bearing feels okay, that one feels right. Only two of the four bolts are in the hub looks like they go right through the center of it yeah they may or may not have threads in there we'll see on those and actually have little keepers that keep it locked. It looks like they're broken off, so they may have just fallen out.
Hopefully they just fell out, did strip out. Sprockets kind of the teeth are rolling over on the sprocket, so it's on its way out got ta get the adjusters out of it. It looks like they need a little bit of love too the swinger itself, i'm trying to tell if it's bent or not if it is we'll just beat it back to submission. But i know it's not an angle.
It looks like it's. It's like this is kicked like that. Worse, the way it's supposed to be, i don't know because it they kind of do a pattern like that it looks a little hammered. Doesn't it like it shouldn't be that way that side looks flat? Hmm, that's how to play in it.
That's good time to go shopping in my pile of junk. We are going to look for anything that can resemble the parts that we are missing. There's a lot of honda stuff. You need a shifter right, there's one of those! That's a kickstarter the parts for the back break. We need a lever that goes that thing again. This is, i think this is honda. I don't even know it's yard. Rcl stuff, you know, actually looks like moped.
It's got two sprockets on the inside of it there. Maybe we can use that brake lever this thing if we have to cut it to length, we'll drag that that what else do we need? This is a honda trail 70, which is a parts bike for another one, one of the other ones, that we did actually there's one more to go, but it has the wrong back rim on it, and i am wondering that'd be nice if that was a same Setup right knock them all over in a row. Look like the same room to you close! Isn't it we'll keep an eye on that? If we find out the room is junk we'll, possibly size wise you, we can make that fabricate to fit on there. We want to look for carburetor, that's what the other thing was, at least if we can find the the screw that stops the slide.
That one takes you here, we'll grab a couple of pieces, see if there's any more, i had a box, it was just carburetors. All by itself there - it is a lot of these - are lawnmower, has a lawnmower stuff you'd have a slide in the top of it. Another shifter we'll grab that actually in another shifter hey one thing, though, that screw is somewhat evasive. Every carburetor here is missing.
It there's one: it's got a thumb screw on it see. If that one will do it, the room that was up there was a 14. This is a 12., that's not going to be the same deal and something else that's missing so between the bearings in the rear. There should be a so you got a bearing one.
Finger here is a bearing one. Finger here is a bearing in between. If you're going to go, tighten the bolt down, you would crush both bearings in so generally there's a spacer that touches on the inner race so that, when you crank down on the wheel, it just kind of tightens down on those spacers and there's no preload on The bearing well, there is no spacer inside there and that's another thing. That's missing! It's probably why it had that bearing as a spacer, it probably burned up at some point.
That is one that was in there and then they used it for a shim and et cetera, et cetera, so they got to come out of there. We got to go, find some kind of spacer so that when we bolt down on it they are not pinching. On each other, that's probably what happened to these guys being all bent up. He couldn't tighten the bolt up because it would jam the wheel up, so he had to leave the axle loose and it kept pulling the wheel and it quite cocked that wheel on an angle.
That's why i did that because you couldn't tighten down on the bolt. So it was all everything was trying to rely on that for the the pressure of the chain. When you get on the throttle trying to pull the wheel forward, he couldn't tighten the bolt, so it was crushing down on that little spacer. On the end, uh they've revealed himself slowly over time through investigation. You see, the support bracket will do anything for us roughly eleven. So if we come off of that point right, there 11. actually might be a little on the long side. We have to go from that to that so eleven's gon na put us right about there.
Normally it's about something like that might be able to use it. You always cut a little bit out of it right, drill, another hole, just kind of shorten it up and drill another hole. We use that use the hardware use that hardware. Hopefully it's the same size about 45 minutes later, let's see how things look warm.
I can tell you that we'll go rinse them off with water, clean them up put that back together kind of giving it i don't know, maybe a 60 survival rate, i'm afraid that center is a can be corroded beyond. I tried tapping out even afterwards. I just couldn't get it out of there. So all depends on how cruddy that is.
I guess i think i'm having a blonde moment. I wonder if i was driving it the wrong way. Well, there's your problem. I mean you were yelling at me: you're going the wrong way.
You can get that the rest of the way out of there. Oh yeah, she was hurting, so that was never going to go past the muster that is just totally plugged clean, solid, nastiness yeah. Let's go uh hit that with a wire wheel, get some of that crap off of there and get a better look. That's a little better.
I should do what it's supposed to these little holes to actually breathe and we actually got one more there you go. It took another second or two to look at it better, just trying to rush rush through it there's the other one, so the other one's the main. This is probably the idle you can see how not plugged but they're, definitely dirty get that one cleaned up. I think i might go soak it again.
You scrub out some of that she's a smoking. That's all just the aluminum, that's breaking down. I got everything back together on the carb, no problem getting picked and stabbed and cleaned out best as i can, but i do not have that throttle. Stop the idle speed and i found a carb kit from another bike that i had.
This is what was taken out of the old carb, it's the closest one. I have. I do believe the threads are the same size, but the id hole in the center is too small. I thought about trying to take the pin down to make it fit.
Instead, i decided to just bore out the hole to make that fit the center see if that'll go in. There goes, it could even just been damaged. They had this, that's what was in there all right. We got rid of that.
Let's go get ourselves a regular screwdriver; let's go run that i'm sure beat that threads up somewhat. We just need that to be able to protrude, and it does that goes up against the slide. The slide is the piece that goes in here. It's still on the bike right now: let's go blow out some of that crap just throw those anywhere, so that has a spring on with the whole tension. Keep it from backing out you're supposed to be able to. You know reach down with your fingers and be able to turn that, and it looks like it'll do just fine, and so what that does? The slide goes in there and on the side of the slide, there's a little bit of a ramp that that screw runs into and it raises and lowers it and just allows a little bit of a window at idle for it to go through i'll show. You hey look right on the slide right here. There's that ramp, i'm talking about so the screw, runs into that and it raises and lowers the throttle.
This is how much air let in this is, how much fuel is let in and it meters that in you see it got a little beat up from that that sheet metal screw they had in there. I think it'll be fine, though the other thing is look at that bowl. Look how pitted that is that's about halfway through. So sometimes this thing really sat and got a bunch of corrosion down in the center of it.
I think it'll be okay. Now again, a lot of fuel doesn't pee through i've actually seen them where they they've rotted all the way through the casing of it. Let's go check on that oil leak and it looks like definitely making a good puddle underneath it. I see like it's all wet right through here, and it runs down and it physically is dripping off of the drain plug.
I think the drain plug is leaking. I think it's just all running right down and off of it. You also see over here too, on the side of the the foot peg crossover. So i'm saying, judging by the fact that rubber is sticking right out of it, i have a feeling that this is where our issue is right on the case right here, it's probably leaking and why it's wet up here.
It's probably just that it's soaked up in what they call that capillary action which drawn up in here. I actually think it's probably right in this area that it's leaking, i run those screws and that rubber right there that's the fill and it's wet up around here, but we already know the fluid levels below that, so it can't be coming out of that. I think we just go. Take this whole cover right off and see what we got might not be any gasket there.
We might be able to do the same thing. Just get some right stuff. Let it set up and crank that back down so kickstart's got to come off. You should probably take the cable off where the clutch i want to got a pan to go drain.
The oil you can go, put a wrench on it and that's what i found so maybe you're going to recheck that we're going to throw we'll crank down on it. Grab the right wrench tighten that down and retry. It again make sure the plug just wasn't loose that might be it yeah. Sometimes it's just the obvious things that get you all right, probably wouldn't hurt the check on the screws too right, yeah they're, all they could all use a good little extra, oh, that one's loose totally that one's really loose a couple of the upper ones were yeah. Let me help it out looks like that that one's even after cleaning it got a little bit yeah several leaks. I think the next problem we should probably deal with is that upper hole is definitely all egged out of all different kinds of shapes and sizes, and it's just a mess, the bottom one. I think we can get a tap in there that top one. I wish i have a helicoil.
You can kind of mill that hole straight and tap. It put a heel coil in there, but i do not have anything that small. So i'm thinking, maybe we'll just try and tap it and see if we can get some threads on it with something larger and we'll come back with a you know, a stud come out of it. We could probably open up the hole on the exhaust pipe for it to fit through.
Let's give her a shot, see what happens, can't mess it up anymore. Right, give me his last words. There's nothing. It doesn't look like very much material to work it with yeah.
It's a 8x125 tap and get that blown out we'll get something on there, so you can get that to have to cut us some threads. It actually pops out. On the other side, there's like fins behind it, there's a space, not the cylinder, but there is some room behind it, so we can actually kind of punch through the hole a little bit. Let me get something to put on that: i'll: go for a drill, i'll make a quarter inch extension on it see if you get any threads yeah, it looks like we got something to work with here.
You see we're bottomed out on the other side, all right see if we can get something. What i really like to do is run that in and then cut the head off and put a nut on the outside use it as a stud, because you really want you don't want to be kind of like where you get with it. You can get it. I know you want me to stop, but if it's not going to tighten up it's not going to tighten up actually, that might be good.
So what we can do, you might have to get a little longer, but i'm going to cut the head right off. Get a nut behind it so that when you're tightening it down so what happens when you're dealing with aluminum soft, like this, the reason why you want a stud not just put a bolt in it, the stud you're threading it in without pulling on the threads. When you are trying to crank down and say, crush on a surface and you're running the threads in it takes the aluminum and pulls it out, but if you're able to run it in ahead of time and then put a nut and it's steel on steel, all The support is staying there, you're, not moving the steel on the aluminum and having it kind of rip out. It holds itself much better uh when you try to just draw a nut in on the stud instead of the bolt drawing in the on the aluminum. I know that made sense practically. I said that a little bit better, but that's what we're going to go with. It's been what it had right, which was nothing so the bottom one we're going to go, see what it had a bolt in it. I might just go clean that one up a little bit, but i think that one's much easier to work with than what we had on top it's got an allen head.
My own bolt put a nut on it. Okay, so we'll do is we'll run that in as far as we can get it and then we'll take come back with a hopefully a whiz wheel. We can get one in there and we'll cut off. What's left we'll run the nut off to clean up the threads, and that should be our stud yeah doesn't rip out trying to get as tight as possible.
That feels pretty good right. There we'll push our luck, so you can get a cut wheel in there. We'll cut that off, she did the same thing to the bottom, one, no different again, it fits a little bit better problem is now we need an o-ring or a gasket or seal whatever you want to call it a metal o-ring to seal off the inside. Of that and i do not have the correct one that goes in there closest when i had my stash - was this one? It's a little on the large side.
My light is flipping out, but let's try cutting it and we're reducing it into a circle, see if we can get that to fit in there. It'll just have a little cut. That's in the side of it. That's a pretty big distance to shrink down it doesn't even fit between the studs yeah.
Let's cut it see what we get actually we'll leave it. The other see if we can kind of shrink that what, if you get like a socket or something we'll try rolling it around a socket, get it to kind of be a circle, not an oval, a spark plug socket. I know it's way smaller than it needs to be, but i figure it's going to spring back on us. At least it's soft huh took a little on it oval side right there.
Let's give her a really doesn't spring back kind of stays where it is. Maybe we should get a socket, that's closer to the right size. Let's give her a little a little bit. How do we do this? Look like a circle of view.
Letters number six! Actually i think i eyeballed it pretty good. We're gon na go cut it right. There gon na push that into shape. I get a hammer and tap on it.
One size fits all yeah. Let's go check it out, huh yeah. It means a little pressure to hold it in there. That's good, it's slightly proud, which is what you want when the pipe goes on, it'll crush down on it looks like we got about a sixteenth of an inch sitting, proud of the flange good, that upper hole was already drilled out to a larger size.
So i didn't have to screw with that. The top is under one spot, yeah. Okay, once you got enough room for our nuts oh grow up yeah i get someone a little shallow on the bottom one you leave that loose a little bit got to get the upper bolt started on the the pipe before i crank them down. Let's see if you can go suck down, i got the upper bolt in. I should be crushing that under there i don't want to push my luck. Call that right there, i'm gon na get that give that bottom one just a little bit more yeah we're gon na all right we're stopping call that, for the win, don't see anything dripping quite yet, i'm sure the drain plug being loose did not help we'll. Let that sit overnight get kind of long in the video. So maybe what we'll do we're not going to get the whole thing finished, but we'll throw the carburetor on it and maybe hook some fuel up to that, we'll fire it up, see how the car made out and how the engine is.
Maybe you know bump it through the gears. We still have the rear, wheel, rebuild and there's a busted screw for the gas tank and wires, and you know the kind of stuff so we'll leave that for another one. But for now let's get that carb on there see what it does. Another bolt that was missing was on that clamp, got ta, go find something for that.
The slide back in the car. So i was talking and i hit the throttle. You can see how it opens up, but there's still like an air gap underneath it and then that's your idle speed and with that set screw that you have going in from the side, you run that out that gap will close down. You run that in really shouldn't do it that way, but trying to get the example.
You can see that that gap is open further and then, as you run it out, you see that gap closed down. So that's that's your idle speed controlling it. With that thumb screw it doesn't have the air box on it. So it's not going to be tunable or completely tuned, but should be able to run we're just filling the float pole right now.
Hopefully it all stays in, i think that's got it rear field. About two inches from the top, and we got a little screwdriver there, we can adjust the idle air fuel mix if we need it. Let's get you backed up a little bit and give her a couple of kicks in after in the wheel, chalk and tie the handlebars down just so it doesn't go flapping around too bad. Let's see what we get we're gon na need a choke.
Where is the choke? It's on your side. I believe that should be on how many kicks at least one go five stay around, so i went through the gears. I should be in top gear right there i'll play this in that huh, but it went through all the gears - that's good, hopefully that part's good. We won't know if we put some pressure on the ground, it used up the fuel and, as it starts using the fuel up in the car, it starts running leaner and leaner.
So that's the idle started. Coming up. You start hearing the scream a little bit. It seems like it's okay, everything else seems like it's holding out all right.
We don't have a muffler, for it might be able to find something off of something else. I'm pretty happy with how far we got so far. It seems like it's a decent drive train. I don't see anything so far, standing out and uh as a sore thumb saying that something uh you know uh terribly wrong with it until you put the back wheel on it and you know ride it, though you wake it's hard to say what the gearbox is. What the condition of that stuff is in clutches in you know, so that's still still to be determined, but i think we got the exhaust uh tightened up. Pretty good oil leak. We're gon na go find out. I'm gon na move that back out from underneath it and we'll let the paper towel sit, you know overnight and see if we get any more drips coming out of it.
We just got the rear wheel to rebuild. We have a bunch of cables to get straightened out that rear swing arm if it's bent to be addressed oil leak. If that's an issue, uh plastics gas tank has got a bolt uh stripped out for the mount for the gas tank or actually snapped off right. Above the muffler there that's broke off, and you know whatever else we're gon na go find as far as we move forward, but i think for this one i think we're gon na go, call it quits and uh soon to be uh part two.
So if you want to see the rest of it and come back and take a peek, we should have that one up. You know not much further. When this video went up. Usually, you know the following weekend, possibly and uh till then.
I think to thank all you for hanging out with me doing a little wrench a little fun in the garage. It's a yard sale season. So some of this weird stuff is starting to come out and uh we'll have some fun with it guys until next time i'll see you bye.
The "choke" is actually an enricher that dumps fuel when opened. It should not be run long with it open. You should still be able to get any parts you'll need for the carb.
One of my first bikes was a Suzuki Enduro, 2-stroke with oil injection. I can't understand why this bike didn't have a sight glass for the gear oil. They usually do. Strange!
Talk about a bike that was abused with no maintenance. I'm surprised that with not 1 penny spent on fixing the bike they didn't try to run it on motor oil instead of 2-stroke and locked the motor up just to save a dollar.
I used to read the "Can it be saved" part of the title curious as to the odds of success. But after a few years I'd say that if anyone can revive these machines Mustie1 can. You are like the big brother in the garage that everyone wants in their families. And you address these obstacles in a very educational and appropriate way. Thank you for taking the time to explain all this for us.
Ahaha I remember riding an old 70cc and casing it as a kid then using JB weld to keep the oil from dripping out. As a kid you learn how to jerry rig stuff when you have no money to replace or fix things properly.
There's nothing wrong with it why are you makeing it out like it's a wreck or a scrap yard find you pillock what a sausage jockey get off YouTube it's not for people who pretend bullshiter
These little ds 80's are fun I usually additional more oil in the gas with the oil injection because it some how feels faster if I do
Looks like a good start to the resurrection. One question answered and one procedure completed before you even start on it. Does it have oil and we don't have to drain it.
Holy crap man…your explanation of studs vs bolts in aluminum just answered a long-time question. And you explained it good enough even I understood…good show and thanks!
I had this bike as a kid. It looks like a 1984 RM80. I run it without a clutch and had to mesh the gears with the engine revs. No kickstart either as the splines were worn off and it just slipped. The 1980s. Paid about ยฃ150 for it back then IIRC. Mine didn't have any oil reservoir though. These bikes can take a serious hammering. This bike is in better condition than mine was in the 80s.