XR200 tips wanted

[fridayflash]

yep, you certainly can....warm soapy water matey in a bucket or the laundry tub
then pat it dry-ish between a rag then oil it... best way is pour a bit of oil
(engine oil if you dont have filter foam oil) about 50-75 ml at a guess
into a plastic bag and throw the clean filter into the bag and squelch it all around until you think the foam has an even spread of oil, and then its ready to re-fit
to the cage, and back into airbox

[barty5]

Guess its just come apart then looking at that. Just before the carb. The box bit that #10 is part of is in 2 pieces on mine.

if its the large square part that looks like a join id just either use black rtv or that Melamine Tape stuff you can get as it moulds to the shape really well.

[nzspokes]

I will tape the old one up today them. Needs a new float valve. It leaks out the overflow even after changing float height. Anybody know the float height on the Kehin carb?

Also have to make the kill switch work better. If the wire moves it kills the motor.

[Jay GTI]

Jeez mate, can you stop all this work on your bike, please? Projects like this are supposed to take months and the forks at least should have spent a couple of weeks on your work bench in bits before you put them back together.

You're making me feel bad about the way I work on my projects....

[sugilite:Me]

Well I got me a 82 XR200. I believe the rear shock is serviceable? Its got a XR250 rear spring. Not sure if thats a good thing.
But it seems to be an honest bike. Gunna be fun when its going.

I bought aXR200RD from new, great bike! The 250 spring would be a good idea imo. I always regarded the standard one being about as a spring in a bic pen

I loved my XR200RD 1983 model and it is one bike I wouldn't regret it if I still had it. When I bought mine new in March 83 my Bro' was punting his XR200RB. See this old post http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...518#post271518 we thrashed those bikes relentlessly and they never broke. If you restore yours to its former glory it will be a great bike.

Hey Merv, did you guys ever ride your XR200's in the hills above South Karori, Parkside, Wrights Hill?

[nzspokes]

Jeez mate, can you stop all this work on your bike, please? Projects like this are supposed to take months and the forks at least should have spent a couple of weeks on your work bench in bits before you put them back together.

You're making me feel bad about the way I work on my projects....

LOL, I just fixed the air box with RTV and duct tape overtop. Also fixed the kill switch. No more grabbing the plug lead.

Forks are easy. Ive been doing suspension work for years on bicycles. Motorcycle ones are very basic in comparison. I have an urge to convert them to shim stack. But they are super easy, if you can change oil in your car you can do these.

Hope to catch up with Alec from SME later on and get the float valve and maybe an old chain if he has one.

I have lots of spare time as you can see.....

[fridayflash]

does this alec guy have xr bits? theres someone on trademe selling carb rebuild kits for xr200 pretty cheap... i need at least a new needle and jet for mine too

[nzspokes]

does this alec guy have xr bits? theres someone on trademe selling carb rebuild kits for xr200 pretty cheap... i need at least a new needle and jet for mine too

i would think so. He sells under Nikau on TM. Great guy, knows his shit. Linky, http://www.smebike.com/index.php?route=common/home . Wont bug him on sunday.

He had bits for my CBX that Honda had to special order. Honda quoted me $100 for a float valve, he had one in stock for $6. He works from home.

[merv]

Hey Merv, did you guys ever ride your XR200's in the hills above South Karori, Parkside, Wrights Hill?

Here's a bit of a diversion from the XR200 story. I never rode the 200 up there because by then the land had been tied up in that absentee owner thing when Long Gully went to the pack, but I did ride up there for a few years in the 70's on my XL175 and back then you could ride all the way up the hill from the quarry around from Ohiro Bay, up over the Hawkins Hill radar station road, down the other side into Long Gully, then through to South Karori Road and up the other side, or else come in at Wrights Hill and ride through to the airstrip and do it all from there.

XL175 on the hills above Cook Strait December 1978.

The most modern bike we ever took in there was my Bro's XL185S, then the land closed, but I have been back since now that you can pay to go into Long Gully or do it on the Capital Coast Adventure rides.

XL175 and XL185S at the South end of Long Gully December 1978.

[rogerh]

The riding up wrights hill, parkside, and South Karori was still good into the early 80's. Down South Karori and through to cable bay, then out through red rocks was good. I remember the really step bulldozer track up from the quarry toward the Ohwiro bay exit used to scare the crap out of me. Even though I had a monoshock (IT175) that handled better than anything else I had ridden at the time.

Where is Long gully?

[fridayflash]

great pic merv! a couple of my friends had xl's new in the seventies and will be quite interested in these pics, and the others you posted in 'more old bike photos' thread

[nzspokes]

Well fixed the carb. Found a float valve that I had spare out of the CBX was the same and it worked. Ran her up fine. Then she stopped. Wont kick with out the clutch in and the output shaft wont turn at all. My guess is gearbox shat itself.

So motor rebuild time.

[nzspokes]

So whats the procedure for removing the motor?

Undo the mounts and watch it fall out?

[merv]

So whats the procedure for removing the motor?

Undo the mounts and watch it fall out?

Yep that's it

[nzspokes]

Yep that's it

To wet outside now to start.

But I think I will enjoy doing it. need a workshop manual. Just had thoughts of stripping it right down and paint the frame. Maybe respoke the wheels. Hmmmmmm