DT50 Mx I have tried/I have scratched my head now it's time to ask

[mad about Dt's]

Ok my son and I are restoring a Dt50mx in time for his 16th Birthday in 3 weeks It's all done apart from sorting out one issue.

The wires on the old loom was hacked to death and seeing as I have a few dt's I took one off of them. But The old loom never had a cdi block but the new one does which means I now have 6 wires wanting to go into fly wheel but I only have 4 wires coming out.

Will it be possible to take off the fly wheel and take the wires out and put back the 6 wires from the donnor bike?.

I have 7 dt's and we had to pick this one to restore all the others are the same they have 6 wires coming out I don't understand why this one only has 4 .

So if anyone could help that be fantastic.

Thanks

Martin

[wild foamy]

welcome to the forum, and congrats on buying a DT50, i bought 2 quite recently after recalling fond memories of my old DT at 16, (do any of your DTs have the registration G237MYA btw?), the later models were CDI but the earlier ones were just points, it would be possible to take the old flywheel and points set off the engine and replace them with the new bits as to my knowledge the engine blocks were exactly the same,

i do have a wiring diagram for the original DT that had points if your interested?, i made a whole new loom for one of my bikes

[mad about Dt's]

wild foamy thx for that..... that's one option which I was thinking about just gotta get a pulley to get the fly wheel off unless you have a tip for that?

as for the reg number I have 3 DT'S that start with G but not that one sorry.

thanks

martin

[Airhead]

Yeah get a proper flywheel puller Martin, and dont forget a method to get a good grip of the flywheel so you can undo and re-torque the holding nut without damage the the flywheel, I use a chain type filter wrench and some rubber strips...works a treat, I strongly advise you do torque the fly up properly or you'll have it slipping and shearing the woodruff key!

[wild foamy]

np martin, just wondered as that was my old DT and would love to have it back.

as above, make sure you have a method of holding the flywheel whilst you tighten it up, the flywheel pullers arent expensive, check out Yambits on eBay, he usually has all the tools you'd need

[mad about Dt's]

Cheers for that I have just ordered the pulley tool and the correct wrench. We have just been out and took the side casings off and on the spares bike the fly wheel nut is tight but on the one we are working on the nut was almost finger tight so will need to investigate that more tomorrow.

I'll let you all know how we get on when we get the tools I just hope that after all this we get a spark.

[wild foamy]

The nut should definately not be finger tight, i would suspect someone has had that flywheel off there before :s