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First, I wanted to thank the folks on this board for helping me out when I started restoring this a couple of years ago. Unfortunately, I simply don't have time to get this project started back up, and I promised the missus that if I started another boat project, I would get rid of this bike.
The story:
I purchased in late 2008 from a kid over east of Orlando. His grandmother had given the bike to him-she got it from a tennant in lieu of back rent-this was in Gainesville FL. He lived in the country could work on dirt bikes. He had cleaned the carbs and gotten the bike running by jumping it with a car battery. He claimed it wasn't running because the "brain box" was fried. The front brakes were locked and the rear was dragging. The front brakes have a non-original master cylinder which isn't up to the job.
I brought it home, got a new battery, found a toasty connector in the headlight nacelle, replaced it, got the bike started and rode it on and off for about 40 miles around the neighborhood. The carbs were out of sync (I made it worse) and one cylinder seemed to not get fire until the bike was moving. Teh tank was rusty inside.
Over the next few months I did the tank with a POR-15 kit, painted the bottom of the tank (to stop the surface rust), rebuilt the front brakes, pulled apart a bunch of connectors and cleaned them, replaced the fusebox with one purchased here, changed the oil and filter twice, rebuilt one petcock (leaky) and generally cleaned the bike up. then came some home rennovation which seemed to go on forever. And I never got back to the bike. The battery is dead and I'm not going to jump it from a car battery-the remaining connections need to be cleaned up (never got under the battery compartment). It likely needs coils and wires as these look original. The TDI was working fine.
the bike looks decent for its age, has some tank dings, but everything seems to be original except the master cylinder. I put a new turn signal switch on it as the old one seemed to corroded to work. It has 19,xxx miles on it (forgot to take a picture) and I believe these are original. I have a file that has some maint receipts going back to the early '90's in Miami Ft. Lauderdale. The front tire matches some of those receipts.
I'd like someone who is going to fix this up to get the bike. I'm just trying to get my money out of it. It comes with a couple of oil filters, another petcock rebuild kit and other misc bits and pieces including new plug wires and boots . I have the original owners manual, original service manual and a clymer's manual. I have the accessory kick starter. I also have a Walmart Cover.
I wanted to put it up here for a week before resorting to ebay or CL-am afraid this will just get parted.
I have an FL Title IN MY NAME. so no monkey business with the transfer. I'm located in the Tampa Bay FL area.
If interested, please email me at r o b e r t . l u n d y at g m a i l . c o m or text/call me at 7 2 7 4 9 2 4 8 2 9 . Not sure if posting a price is normal around here-if it is, just post below.
thanks,
Robert
pics:
Some of these are of the inside of the tank-sorry if its hard to see. The POR treatment worked perfectly.
The story:
I purchased in late 2008 from a kid over east of Orlando. His grandmother had given the bike to him-she got it from a tennant in lieu of back rent-this was in Gainesville FL. He lived in the country could work on dirt bikes. He had cleaned the carbs and gotten the bike running by jumping it with a car battery. He claimed it wasn't running because the "brain box" was fried. The front brakes were locked and the rear was dragging. The front brakes have a non-original master cylinder which isn't up to the job.
I brought it home, got a new battery, found a toasty connector in the headlight nacelle, replaced it, got the bike started and rode it on and off for about 40 miles around the neighborhood. The carbs were out of sync (I made it worse) and one cylinder seemed to not get fire until the bike was moving. Teh tank was rusty inside.
Over the next few months I did the tank with a POR-15 kit, painted the bottom of the tank (to stop the surface rust), rebuilt the front brakes, pulled apart a bunch of connectors and cleaned them, replaced the fusebox with one purchased here, changed the oil and filter twice, rebuilt one petcock (leaky) and generally cleaned the bike up. then came some home rennovation which seemed to go on forever. And I never got back to the bike. The battery is dead and I'm not going to jump it from a car battery-the remaining connections need to be cleaned up (never got under the battery compartment). It likely needs coils and wires as these look original. The TDI was working fine.
the bike looks decent for its age, has some tank dings, but everything seems to be original except the master cylinder. I put a new turn signal switch on it as the old one seemed to corroded to work. It has 19,xxx miles on it (forgot to take a picture) and I believe these are original. I have a file that has some maint receipts going back to the early '90's in Miami Ft. Lauderdale. The front tire matches some of those receipts.
I'd like someone who is going to fix this up to get the bike. I'm just trying to get my money out of it. It comes with a couple of oil filters, another petcock rebuild kit and other misc bits and pieces including new plug wires and boots . I have the original owners manual, original service manual and a clymer's manual. I have the accessory kick starter. I also have a Walmart Cover.
I wanted to put it up here for a week before resorting to ebay or CL-am afraid this will just get parted.
I have an FL Title IN MY NAME. so no monkey business with the transfer. I'm located in the Tampa Bay FL area.
If interested, please email me at r o b e r t . l u n d y at g m a i l . c o m or text/call me at 7 2 7 4 9 2 4 8 2 9 . Not sure if posting a price is normal around here-if it is, just post below.
thanks,
Robert
pics:
Some of these are of the inside of the tank-sorry if its hard to see. The POR treatment worked perfectly.
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