Shock horror, Smudge is (re)starting a project!

[guest18]

Yup the rotting remains of a bitsa DR125S that never ran in my hands have been dragged into the ubergarage along with a straight frame and a medium sized box of bits 
So now the challenge is to create something that will pass an mot and run on a huge budget of just less than damn all 

Anyone with knowledge of DR125's is welcome to advise and anyone with parts will be very warmly welcomed!! (esp a useable fuel tank....)

Hopefully some pics later, let battle commence!

[guest18]

First hurdle... water has been getting into the carb  don't know if it's saveable  float bowl full of white fuzz and brown water isn't good 
Hmmmm. At least none seems to have got into the engine 

[andy230]

Good luck mate!  Keep us posted 

andy

[guest295]

With your skills there should be no problem repairing a tank, no matter how munted.

[guest18]

lol, thanks for the vote of confidence, the inside however is a solid film of rust so getting it to a state where it's not dropping crap into the carb/blocking the fuel tap will be a challenge!
It's bad enough I've even toyed with the idea of slicing the tank up and making an oversize one, sort of a dakar type thing 
We'll see, back to it for a little while tonight (still at the stripping the wreckage down stage) so I'll have another look and a think (and possibly a sit down and a beer while I consider the problem(s)  )

[guest18]

ok... here is where I fail to manage to uplad pics... bear with me! 

[guest18]

Ahah! Ok here's some more then, excuse the (lack of) quality of the pics, my light just failed in the garage so I had to compose the photos by torchlight!

[guest18]

Ok I know it doesn't look *that* bad... but that's 'cause I've already had it from a pile of festering boxes up to semi built up once. What you can't see is that the motor has been assembled from two and a bit knackered ones, with nothing tested and not enough new gaskets (I figure if it goes without too much rattle/smoke I'll tear it down and make it oil tight), the old wiring loom was cut out (literally) and I don't know if everything I need is there, and even if it is I'll have to make a loom 
Most all the parts that I haven't already refurbed or replaced are scrap...

But apart from that it's great    oh and did I mention that Suzuki don't do air filter elements for them anymore 

[guest295]

Remove tap from tank, plug hole with plug. Pour in lots of white vinegar, slosh, slosh. Leave in for 24 hours or so, sloshing occasionally. Talk to a local marine diesel wallah to see what he uses to line tanks - there's an epoxy stuff that's brilliant but I can't recall the name. Drain the tank, save the acid for the next one. Wash out with water, then again maybe with a little baking soda added. Get it nice and clean and then dry with heat. Remove plug and coat threads with wax. Wax plug and reinstall. Pour in epoxy mix. Epoxy zinc is nice but ordinary WEST resin will do fine. Rotate tank so everything's covered. The bottom seam is most important. Invert tank to get excess out - if it won't come out, never mind.

[guest7]

I heard about one guy who left his tank laying static too long when applying a 'Petseal' coating. The heat build-up actually distorted the tank 

GC

[guest27]

Resin give off a lot of heat on curing - not iunknown for small fires to occur when letting scrap pots go off.

Better still is filling a canoe with 2 part all in one go - they can either burst or ignite... mmmmm

Also loads of fun making canoe seats from a bag of 2 part - gets a little hot on the bot..

R

[guest18]

Well after missing work because swmbo's car split a coolant hose in such a way that the system held pressure but still lost coolant... and the leak was right by the fanbelt therefore sprayed all over the engine (ignoring it not an option, she doesn't like arriving places in a cloud of foul smelling steam  ) I spent all morning finding the leak then 10 minutes fixing it...

To console myself I then retired to the garage where the machine in the pics above has been reduced (again) to a large pile of spare parts. Next we swap over the headraces and see if they can be made not *too* notchy 

Petrol tank is lying in corner being eyed suspiciously... 

[guest18]

Ahah! Found another horrible old wreck of a field bike.... which looks like it has all the fiddly bits I need still on it 
A trip to visit Boydy Boy is in the offing!! (unless anyone is passing his on the way north and has room to drag a wreck up with them... Andy?!?)

Once that's here I can rob the loom/carb etc and try booting up the bitsa engine I have... possibly even save a bottom end from the field bike engine 

Meantime the MZ is back on the road, the outfit is on the road and legal... ok the Landy is still sorn'd but it feels like progress 

I may even spend some time in the shed tomorrow drilling out some of the siezed bolts in the straight frame and working out how to get around the missing/sheared off battery bracket.... and all this to produce a worthless thumpette for abusing on the work commute, if it's up to it!?!

[squirrelciv]

Keep plugging away at it matey, you'll get there