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Thanks heaps guys for all the quick responses and encouragment.
I will pull her apart and give it a go myself. I just have scary memories of as a young teen saving up for months to buy a piston and rings for beloved ride, installing myself thinking I did a great job only to have it seize almost straight away. I forgot about the relatively new shop at Morriset, I will see if they can look after me for some parts.
Should give me a great sense of acheivement to get her running properly.
Any tips on determining if the big end bearings are had it? :huh:
Unless i get a new bike I will have to slap on some nobbies on Veronica (VTR) :woohoo:Thanks for the day Kat I had an absolute ball.
Definitely some great motivation to lose a bit of weight and increase my fitness (being heavier then your ride is a little sad and hard work for the poor bike :laugh: )
The Water in “the thingy” started a tragic sequence of events but at least it let me have fun and not self destruct during the ride . With an ominous engine rattle just a few ks from home followed by the engine giving up the ghost leaving me a three km push back home in the poring rain. I was too stuffed to figure out what went wrong and parked it up. But just finished dissecting Danielle the DT tonight :angry: .
In short during one of the puddle runs about 30 kms into our ride…
.. From memory it was soooo deep I had to hold my breath on the way through to prevent drowning…..well that how I like to remember it anyway.
The carby sucked a gutful of water and mud through a poor fitting rubber boot (thanks yamaha!). This caused increased resistance on the slide that caused the slide to eventually stick open. This happened while poor old 300flip was ridding it, giving me a blast on the KTM 300 (a really cool ride). Hence the stop and quick carby clean. Unkown at the time, this resistance had caused a spastic plastic cam in the accelerator cable splitter to fall out of alignmnet. This cam effects the amount of cable pull on the carb slide and the oil injection unit.
Too much throttle meaning I had to do most of the ride with a bike that wouldn’t rev below 7000rpm (this kept it interesting especially on the fast slippery downhills)and at the same time was not actuating the oil injection. No oil results in no more DT. Funny how we were talking on the ride how reliable the old DT oil injection is.
Any how, I stripped and cleaned out the carb (its always more fun working on your bike naked… no I didn’t strip naked I stripped the carby), sorted the spastic plactic cam so it never moves again and ripped off the barrel. The rings had slowly desintergrated without causing any severe damage to the bore or other bits. Looks like she was running on just not enough oil rather than none at all.
I threw in a spare set of rings I bought when I bought the bike and she starts up and runs fine. Although there is enough compression there is still too much excess play resulting in a noisy top end so it will be a rebore and oversize piston and rings and she will be as good as new.
Sorry Flip and Merlot. Thats it for two bangers for me. Looks like I will be in the market for a thumper…. Should never have sold the XRR! if I knew Honda was going to stop making the best bike in the world I would have hung on to her.
There will be a 2006 DT175 with a fresh top end and only 4500kms on the clock up for sale for the next person wanting to start off easy and discover the great world of trails.
Thanks for all your support on the day guys. It was a great welcoming and supportive atmosphere that I want to be part of again. No one laughed (at least not to my face) about my road helmet and work boots and never made me feel out of place. 😆
Hope to ride with you guys again soon.
and Merlot…next time in the area don’t forget to give the VTR a spin.
