My new project Bike

joshr08 · March 25, 2009, 09:05:12 AM

hey your not going to get very far unless your going down hill.

your missing your chain.

jetboy287 · March 25, 2009, 09:33:32 AM

yeah I'm waiting for it to come in the mail

I'm just trying to get it to start right now. the guy i work with thinks I'm crazy for putting this much work into something that i bought on ebay, for that matter he thinks I'm crazy for buying a non working anything, but hey i like to work on stuff that's why i own a ford

joshr08 · March 25, 2009, 09:37:16 AM

nothing wrong with working on something. thats why we got my wifes bike the way we did. i knew i could make it look good and driveable. it wasnt as bad off as yours but it was pretty bad. keep up the great job and youll get the carbs figured out.

jetboy287 · March 25, 2009, 10:31:50 AM

thanks bud this is all new to me first small engine I've ever worked on so I'm learning while i go along.
Thanks to everyone for the support and help

jetboy287 · March 26, 2009, 07:42:55 AM

New chain

joshr08 · March 26, 2009, 07:45:11 AM

sweet you got your chain. one step closer now. did you get it to fire yet?

jetboy287 · March 26, 2009, 08:15:19 AM

no not yet i just got off work this am and started pulling a fork apart for another member of the form
but i plan to work on it some this afternoon
the chick that lives next to me work's nights so i figure I'll give her a few hours of sleep before i start messing with it

jetboy287 · March 26, 2009, 05:30:43 PM

new head light

joshr08 · March 26, 2009, 05:42:19 PM

your going to be riding in no time.

jetboy287 · March 31, 2009, 10:39:50 AM

she's alive

i spent 4 hours cleaning the carbs Sunday night and tried starting her and wow is it loud i need a new muffler bad. but i couldn't help but to grin took a ride around my parking lot till one of my neighbors came out to see what the noise was

tripleb · March 31, 2009, 11:13:17 AM

which lights did you use? are those the angel eyes?

jetboy287 · March 31, 2009, 11:24:03 AM

they are made by pilot got them at auto zone 45$ or so got some spacers from lows and one bolt cut the head off the bolt thread it in one head light pop on the spacers and tighten the other light on i think i got a 1 inch and a 1 1/2 inch spacers and i think the bolt was a 10x 24 metric but I'm not sure i'll try to take some better pictures tomorrow when i get off work but no they are not halos i looked at some of those but didn't want to spend the extra cash

joshr08 · March 31, 2009, 04:32:57 PM

sweet glad you got it running. now have you takin a ride yet or still working on little things?

jetboy287 · March 31, 2009, 08:03:18 PM

well i went for a ride around the parking lot

but i never really let it warm up good i still have to get the turn signals hooked up and get tags, but it boged down when i turned the throttle i have stock jets 1 washer and it's set @ 2 and 1/2 turns is that right?

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