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Later will come the Amoral on wiring and soft parts, and perhaps some careful pressure washing. Then diy soda blasting on engine.
Thinking primary objective will be to first see if the engine will turn over, after extended soak inside cylinders.
Wanting to avoid doing any damage from forceful disassembly of parts or efforts to rotate the crank. Pistons/rings may be rusted to cylinder walls.
Other members will have better suggestions.
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I would pour a good squirt of straight motor oil down the plug holes and let it sit for a night, two stroke oil works good too. and PB blaster or Kroil around the plugs before you take em out. aluminum and steel dont like eachother after a while. just to warn ya.
Some motivated shop time here and there and your cruisin! compression, spark, fuel, fluids, the usual things.
BTW, im down here im Bellingham washihgton, border town to BC, gooood buds!
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82 Honda ATC 200-sold
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80 Suzuki GS 550-sold
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Why remove the air filter box?So whats the secret to getting the plastic air filter box out ??...
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I have been working on one that looked almost that ratty, for a very long time.
The thing is if you want to recreate a bike, the steps are pretty much the same no matter what the cosmeyic condition is. You always paint the frame and body parts.
The engine well with 2000 niles you may just need to disassemble clean and reassemble.
There is a real interesting project post for engine coating kzrider.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&...w&catid=11&id=191240
Then there is the polish route:
kzrider.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&...w&catid=11&id=274097
They still have Sportbike west in BC each year?
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