POS cb125 bucket

[Ixion]

Check the points gap and that they a re well screwed down.

Unfortunately they chose a bad day for the buckets, because it is Motu-pointing weekend, so all men of light and leading will be at Puke.

But I live just down the road, so I may pop in . Flick me a PM if you do go.

[gav]

Its a CB125 single isnt it? Have you taken the tappet covers off? I had one that had the little valve adjuster back itself off and fall out .
Have you got a workshop manual for it? Should be able to download one off the net somewhere.

[wbks]

Haven't touched the engine apart from to change the oil. I've litterally only had it going for 30 mins max all together. Yea Ixion I'll PM you if I go down that way. I'm close enough to buying that cb twin on trademe and then just take my time fixing this one and sell one or the other afterwards but it closes tomorrow night so it might be a waste of time to go buying it if I can get this one running the weekend after that but no doubt by the weekend if I don't buy it, my cb will refuse to start for the next couple meetings and by then a really cheap, fast, already running bike will be gone...

[xwhatsit]

Well if you can't get it going I'll buy it off you for a couple of hundred

[koba]

We had a CB100 and TI?125 (similar engines anyway) apart a while ago and the 100 had all sorts of nasty cam cahin problems going on, the top sprocket was poked. The cam chain adjuster was poked on both engines and looked like a crap setup, that may be worth checking. all good reasons to sort a manual.
These are simple engines, It will be fixable.

[all4A50s]

I hear tha the position of your tongue is critical to starting an old bucket. On the lighter side have you thought of changing the fuel and spark plug. For the the $10-15 spent has saved me a whole lot a puffin and sanity 9or should that be insanity).

[koba]

Is it going yet?

[xwhatsit]

I've still got a handful of notes I could buy it off you for!

[koba]

I've still got a handful of notes I could buy it off you for!

Wow thats two dickhead posts of yours I've read in a row!
Well done!

[xwhatsit]

Wow thats two dickhead posts of yours I've read in a row!
Well done!

It's not a dickhead post, it's a serious post. If it's too much trouble for him, and he's lining up another (reliable) bike to buy as mentioned earlier, then perhaps he'd be better with some money in his pocket and more room in the garage. I'm fairly confident I'm stubborn enough to make it go, too.

Obviously the man's got a slightly different figure in his head, but with complete sincerity, feel free to PM me if you want to unload it.

[Sully60]

It's not a dickhead post, it's a serious post. If it's too much trouble for him, and he's lining up another (reliable) bike to buy as mentioned earlier, then perhaps he'd be better with some money in his pocket and more room in the garage. I'm fairly confident I'm stubborn enough to make it go, too.

Obviously the man's got a slightly different figure in his head, but with complete sincerity, feel free to PM me if you want to unload it.

This machine should be sold to you on the condition that it is raced as a bucket.
Is that your intention?

[xwhatsit]

This machine should be sold to you on the condition that it is raced as a bucket.
Is that your intention?

Certainly. That's why it caught my eye, it's probably cheaper to buy something outright than retrofit a bucket-sized engine into my spare 250RS frame.

[wbks]

I was never going to sell it, I was just getting a little shitty with it not going.

Imagine an extatic 16y/o dude leaping out of his bed to the driveway looking over his bike purring away with a menacing look on his face: "IT'S ALIIIIIVE!!!!"
Dropped it off to a mechanic down the road who we figured could do things for mates rates. Heres the story - The original reason it stopped was logically the white powder I cleaned out of the carb originally. It has to be, I didn't change anything else. But then the second reason after that was that while re assembling the carb, I put the float needle in the same way my mate had put it back in when he took it apart for a quick look. Obviously a mistake. It was in upside down causing it to flood. Starts pretty much instantly now, and cleaning the carb seems to have it running a lot better now. The guy said it has shitloads of compression. I'll use the time I have untill next race to get it all nylonned and maybe re-paint it for fun.

[Ixion]

Ah. Knew it had to be something simple. Well done

[wbks]

Yes well it could only be something so simple. I'll know what to check next time. I may give it a flashy paint job. Were you racing at the classics or just watching today?