My Rat Bike's Rustier Than Your Rat Bike!!

[OverTheHill]

Pics of my HT1 that arrived last sunday AHHH, what have i bought--sight unseen. [$100] Had it running yesterday, just the bare bones with everything removed. Waterblasting hell out of it with the dirtblaster nozzle which didn't do a hell of a lot as it won't blast rust off!!. Love those old Hitachi Magnetos the early yams had. Bit of fuel in the carb, ran a points file through to give them a light scratch then a few prods & disturbed the neighbours dinner [again], no exhaust. Motors good, smooth to turn & full compression.

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[huskibul]

   Save yourself a lot of grief and keep her as a rat ! look cool with  rego gettin' round town

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[oldyzman]

you might have to fix the header pipe....

[OverTheHill]

Found these pics on a Japanese site called GooBikes [not goo girls now] For sale, done 13000k's & wants $8630 [or there abouts] Looks like it just came out of the crate & see it has a tacho so must be different variations apart from what we saw here in nz. Was a green one too like mine for $5300 & something us dolaro's. Golly Gosh--i have a gold mine here!!

[huskibul]

  Good bush mechanic would use some chicken wire and muffler bandage - no wuckers

[OverTheHill]

Yes, Half price rego at 40 years, now there's a thought. Pity the rego's not on hold as goes for most of my bikes bugger it. Won't be restoring it [a restorer i'm not] but will get it going good & rideable then squeeze it in between the others. 25 now i think & the old stables full--& the possum shits on everything that's not covered. Frighten shit outa me a while back when went to get something in the semi dark [must be here somewhere---] possum took off at headhight around the wall & away.

[huskibul]

           

[OverTheHill]

Yes the pipe--gonna have to relent & hire some gas bottles. Boc Gas have the gas thing by the balls & now 'my' balls so it seems. Have a chamber or two to weld up anyway. Microwave gave up so turned it into chamber cones [0.5mm] another i have to weld was a stove i think, [0.8] & hard to roll by hand but think it must be a sort of semi high tensile as rolled in small flats every 5mm or so, thought bugger it--it'll work if i can weld it.

[GMC]

I’ll raise you a special 84 ‘Prototype’ KDX
You can tell the Prototype models by the special white plastics



Just have to weld up a small crack in the rim and it should be good to go

[OverTheHill]

love your KDX & funny thing is, have my HT1 running now [yesterday], actually went out the gate & straight into a wheely exactly as i racalled from back in the day then wife came out doing a war dance [no helmet & i'm a walking head injury--sorry dear], old habits hard to break!! I'll put pics up showing [little] difference after waterblast & lots of hours freeing up etc. Anyway, runs absolutely perfect with no motor noise whatsoever. Usual piston port growl & pulled an easy 50mph up the road. BUT, KDX link is my farmer neighbor dropped of a KDX pipe [cleaning out the shed] & i cut the first bit off to get the bend for the HT1, then a bit of RD350 header then [being too stingy to fill my gas plant] i quite successfully arc welded it all up [barely leaks at all], might go over it again if i can get rid of the flux & zig zag over the top. Wired the lights to the 25/25 high beam, dip switch stuffed, hooked the stop light fillament to soak up some voltage & did a night run down road--really good. Have a 6volt ac regulator which i might fit [bulb saver regulator]. Anyway--all that story was about the KDX link via exhaust. Cheers.

[GMC]

It’s not advisable to chip the slag from your welds, most arc welds I see on exhausts it’s actually the slag that is holding them together.

That’s a good deal that your Yammie runs, this KDX was left sitting out in the weather with no spark plug so I assumed the crank would be stuffed but I had it stripped down the other day and was surprised to find oil still on the crank and all looking respectable except I can feel some play in the rod so it will need a rod kit.

[OverTheHill]

just pump the tyre up on the kdx, that rim will go for a while yet [maybe not]. Must say it's the worst i've seen--gosh. reminds me of my 490k when a young work mate of my son rode it in our annual 'johhny old' mx [won the main event] & when they returned it i put the original front end back in [had an it200 disc set up for a while], anyway--swapping the good tyre over & the IT rim was 'so' corroded under the rim band that i could have poked a screwdriver through it. Never did show him the pic. Put a 5 speed in after that & [also lucky he finished the day because] found the kick start stop that broke on the day [lever went forward to stop on cover] had got into the gears & shredded teeth on probably second i think & were just overlapping enough to drive but probably not for another lap more. Another time [steel rims this time]--Gunnar Lindstrom had a cracked front rim on his Husky [Timaru Mx in ummm end of "67] i went with him to the farmers shed & [he was 'good'] just let the tyre down, pushed it over & shielded it with something & set about gas welding the rim using some electric fence wire, just fizzed the galvanising off it & welded it. Then went on & cleaned us all up for the day--as he did everywhere. Great days.