DT125R ARCHIVE

Looks like you've got your work cut out for ya there . Going well m8 good work keep it up.

-- Edited by tripr on Sunday 4th of November 2012 11:50:35 PM

bloody good stuff parafin, and cheap too, some in a squeezy trigger bootle sprays bits unreachable by brush, plus if you do it all over a large bowl/baby bath, when it settles you can filter off the crap and crud, then re-use again for cleaning down.

Going to get some work done tonight. Having problems with the photos though. When I paste them ect they dont appear I have to do it twice to get them to show, then there are two of every pic in my post lol. Hopefully goes better tonight.

Plans for tonight are to clean the filthy radiator ready for painting and oil residued exspansion chamber. (some idiot had oil in it) Get those air intake fins cleaned up for painting. 

Going to try and knock the berings out the swing arm. Been busy with my dremmel recentley so not many exciting photos.

 

Pictures to follow.

Busy night smashing with a hammer! 

 

Luckily the sleeve on the right hand side came out easily, cause i was in for some fun with the left!

 

Had to call on an old freind for this project. Surprised I havnt been badly burned yet.

 

 

The chisil and socket were the perfict drift 9/16 I think it was. Not really sure though.

 

 

 

No wonder I failed my last MOT for seizes suspension pivot. I had to smash that sucker out.

 

Got the outer bearings out with a 21mm. The inners came out with my punch, but i was glad I had this for the outers, as they were solid.

 

Tool of the night!!

 

 

Called it a day here though. Roasted it and hit it with a 19mm socket, didnt move a mm?

 

 

Started cleaning these peices in my parafin basin.

 

 

 

 

Got this bearing out with some presision (lol) work with dremmel. Never damaged the lip at all so think I will be fine. Just cut a couple of mm to far into the headstock cause I never had a new bearing for referance. Even this way it was a struggle!

 

Cleaned and painted rear shock and water pump.

 

 

 

Another hole in my swingarm after all the smashing. Will have to get welded at the coaters.

that swinger doesn't look very solid?  nice to see another vampire swing arm bite the dust though,

stake through the heart style

Cheers Slinky that would be good. I am not sure if they are the same. I am sure a quick comparrison would be enough to see if they fitted. The tank I have got is a new one, I have got a dented one as a spare. I will drop you a PM and we can sort out the swingarm, it really is appreaciated! 

The swing arm is feked, you should here the crap rattling around inside of it. Got it all out before but after my hammering it is full again.

The vampire stake I found at work, god knows how old it is could easily be 100 years old from where I found it. I showed the guy I was working with and asked him how many times he though it had been hit, its proper mushroomed.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DT125RE-Engine-DTR125-DTR-breaking-DT125X-DT125-RE-Reconditioned-engine-/251179134514?pt=UK_Motorcycle_Parts&hash=item3a7b716e32

It's a lot of money for the engine. Spend about £150 ish and you can have the same effect for your engine, new bearings, seals, gaskets, conrod etc. Follow the posts on here for rebuilding and you can't go wrong. The fact that there's no generator, starter motor etc,for me makes it way over priced, despite the labour that would have gone into it. Get the parts, print off the guides (I think Norfe did a good engine dismantle guide that I used) and give yourself an afternoon and you could sort it yourself. I think i've managed it for about £100 for a full re build of my engine.

As for the screw heads, I just drilled them off then used a stud remover to get the remaining bit of the bolt out, easy. Again if you need to borrow a stud remover, I can drop one off when I get the swing arms.

Yup, pm'd back

Well thats the stuff dropped off at the coaters, big thanks to slinky for the swingarm! they looked really similiar so we will just have to wait and see. I will keep my peice of crap just incase.

done a cracking job them have! 69p a can is pretty sound! usually get myself a 4 for £4 bottles of ale tho!

One thing the coater did do though was blast my chasis number to oblivion and coated over it lol! Don't plan on selling the bike anyway, costs nothing to run these things.

A bit of an update on the build. I have been enjoying putting the stuff back together after the powdercoating because it just looks amazing compared to how crap it looked before just annoying now when I scratch something now but I just keep telling myself the bike is going to be really well used, its not for some concours bike show!

Going to try and get the bike totally rebuilt so I can focus soley on the engine rebuild as I have never done before and it will be good when the engine is built to put it straight into the fresh bike for what will probaly be a nervous push of the ignition switch lol!

 

 

Started cleaning these for painting, wire wool is working really well.

 

 

Got the corroded pivot bolt nicely cleaned and polished. Nice colour coding of the shock absorber lol.

Hopefully the stuff eventually turns up from wemoto so I can get the headstock and the swingarm built up. Going to compress the bearing in with some threaded rod and nice big bus shock absorber washers.

 

 

Same with you, my bikes blue twin!