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Matt and I went for a ride yesterday, and these bikes are quite evenly matched. The lack of accelerator pump on his bike made no real impact, its still torquey with lots of pep. Neither the headlight, nor the tails running light came on, for which both circuits are powered through the left handlebar switch. Seeing as that switch is badly damaged, I told Matt to find any replacement on ebay and I’ll wire it in, and temporary I can hotwire that switch ON so long as ignition is on.
His bike is still tough to start cold, so I pulled a plug and gave’r a shot of carb clean….fired first kick.If you need to sweeten the deal on your truck, let the buyer know you have a spare trans/tcase, cvs, steering rack, headlights and some odds & ends.
I doubt I’ll get a toy hauler, might just keep the adventures separate. Bring a pop-up with the family, another weekend bring some atvs and a tent.
Both my big kids told me they wanna go camping in Redee next year, so they clearly won’t miss running water and a soft bed haha. Looking forward to it already.
Yesterday in The Shop, Matt popped over to check out his running bike. I gave him the starting procedure I came up with, and she fired on a couple kicks.
The headlight didnt come on, but the battery is pooched, maybe not enough voltage to even come on. The wiring and bulb all look good though.
Matt Spent the next hour pealing decals and scrubbing adhesive residue.Next year then, you owe it to yourself and M.
Last cool car guy I made friends with is a neighbour with a 1937 sedan, has a hand start crank. He only brought it home this year, don’t think it runs yet.Today in The Shop, Matt’s DR600 fired on carb clean, and ran on the gas in its tank! I was able to go through all 5 gears heading down the street, then return home. I even stalled once and restarted on the first kick.
Last night I modified and adjusted the manual decompression valve cable. I also checked and adjusted the intake/exhaust valves. The intake were perfect, the exhaust pretty tight, more than 1 full turn out. The spark checked pretty strong too. Then we lost power for the night, so I quit working haha. Finished assembling the bike today, and kicked the shit out of it with carb clean in the cylinder.
Matts bike pulls pretty hard for having no accelerator pump. What remains of the mechanism is eff’d, so I rtv’d the linkage ports shut.
Just in time to pack it away for winter unfortunately. Guess its up to Matt if he wants to fill the tank and go for a tour.
That’s a legitimate rant, a burnout is only so good without smoke. I remember your plan to erase, then replace those treads. I didn’t realize they survived last year!
How have your drag strip times changed since your re-gear? I’m glad your ‘51 gets used.
Oh man I saw so many cool cars today around Orangeville. 30’s Model A, chopped. 50’s GMC dually, slammed. ‘85 Extra Cab, looked damn near oem brand new except for the 33s. RHD ‘90s Supra. ‘60 something C10 with a very big (maybe just loud) motor. Last chance to play with the toys.Today in The Shop, a $5.85 Spark plug brought Prestons mini atv back to life. Practically fired on the third chug. My oldest rode it the 200 m to Prestons house where his almost 3-y/o daughter was all smiles. The only payment I wanted was a high-five from the lil one, but no luck. A fist bump from Dad was all I could muster. Maybe next time.
I keep looking on kijiji for Japanese stuff as it’s my favourite to wrench on as well, but nothing has really caught my eye.
Today the donor was picked up by my local scrapper, handed Sam an envelope with$200 and was on his way.
So far my 3RZ swap has cost me roughly $1,000. Paid $900 for the donor, bought engine swap mounts for $300, and now sold the carcass -$200. I’ve got roughly a $1,500 rock auto shopping cart, but the sale of the fuel injected SBC and TH350 to offset that cost.
Tomorrow in The Shop I’m hosting my buddy Dave for some beers and BS, will prolly push Matt’s DR back in here to resume work on it. I need to check valve clearance, put in a decompression cable, and do a spark gap test.
The struggle is real.
Anytime I clear up space I tuck another project into it.
What’s your tire tally for the season? Just 1 set of rears?Tried my best to ride in on Tuesday morning, but I turned back home after about 500m, just too foggy. The weather is sooo glorious, but mornings just too crappy. I’m gonna try again tomorrow morning, but not feeling too confident.
Yesterday in The Shop, my buddy Preston’s atv is getting a mini tune-up. It’s a small Yami YFZ80 for his kids, it’s been going well all year but now just wont pop to life. I put the battery on charge last night, and pulled the spark plug to replace it. My local store didnt have a plug in stock today, so I’ll pick one up tomorrow, and hopefully the atv will fire tomorrow night.
Awesome ride today, abouts 40 kms of gravel and No Exits with Matt on his CR250, both bikes performed great with the cool fall air. I think my bike still runs a little lean, but there isn’t much more I can do to richen the mixture other than drilling out to enlarge the main jet a bit. Not ready for such a permanent countermeasure though. I keep eyeing up a carb swap kit I found, a Mikuni TM40 flatslide pumper carb and all the conversion bits will run about $600. Should haul ass, but I got plenty other things to throw that kinda cash at first.
The two-week forecast is lookin’ awesome, planning a ride with Matt for this coming Saturday, hopefully ride in a few days next week too. Freakin’ gasoline took a 13 cent jump last night, that’s total bullshit.
Power washed the bike yesterday, then saw 18 degrees in the forecast for Mon / Tues and said “to hell with winterization!” So I bundled up this morning and rode in. I can finally report that my new voltage regulator is working perfectly, saw 13.0-13.5V the whole way here, and no flickering lights. Success! Gonna take the long way home, figure this may be one of my last opportunities, seeing as I’m a fair weather rider haha.
Yesterday in The Shop, a total floorplan makeover occurred. With help from James, the mighty Taco dragged the donor carcass out the bay door and back onto the crappy part of the lawn awaiting pickup from the scrappers.
After the donor was removed, 75% of the big shop contents were shuffled around and lots went out the door.
I fired up Redee (without hesitation) and got her positioned in the shop. Then the task of stuffing all my items back into the shop took way longer than I thought.
Last task of the day was swapping Sam’s snow tires onto her van. The non-Redee workspace is a little narrow, but is totally doable for most tasks I’ll do this winter (oil changes, tire rotations, greasing etc).
