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Do you want it? If so what for. On a quick look the frame hasn't been prepared just painted, he rebuilt the forks, oh hang on had some seals fitted. Polished the yolks? Yuk, its an unfinished progect, you can get legal, comlpete, useable ones for 6-700quid, i think its already too dear.

Your all talking tosh, mine did 70mph 2 up, why it did it just the other day taking Elvis down to the stables to feed Shergar.

I use the stuff that goes in the bag for cleaning the cooker, just don't use the bag just pour the goo in the pipe block one end and give it a shake every once in a while. Be clean as a wistle in 24 hours. Carefull with it though, and remember the trees when you chuck it out.

Calm down Kev you was fat when this thread was started. Paul or Dewps might lock it quick if were lucky to save the pain......

You really should start a new thread for this, It is a commonly missed fact that the US spec Dt125 MX, the 2A6 or 'E' model WASN'T fitted with cdi ignition and retained the older points system. Haven't the faintest idea why. Your bike is exactly as it should be, as far as i can tell the lighting coil, in specs at least is the same as the others so a 175mx coil 'should' be fine, and a lot easier to get.

I thought you were talking MK1 and MK2 MX, thats what i understood you were saying in post#4 with the 2 cdi's

Sorry to bust you theory paul but all the mx's had that STUpid switch system regardless of the cdi/mag combo, confuses my MOT man every year. The only DT with on,off AND park as far as i can see is the 125E with the leccy start, ( a twinshock to boot). The plot thickens. That switch has red, brown, blue, and green coming from it. Yes? I'm guessing that switch may have come from the LC? Then it would have Red, black,black/white, brown, blue and blue and red?

Nope fuck all for me too. Just a poxy bottle of booze costing a tenner tops. Ho fucking HO

Now i've heard of people giving tramps a few quid at cristmas or handing out some food. Fck me thats going the exta mile mate well done,

Nope, its somebody with a torch bringing more work......

The LC engine, at least the early ones IS a DT engine. The clutch cover has a water pump in it driven from the oil pump drive thats all. With an electric pump you could put the lc barrel on an ordinary DT175, same stroke and deck height. That is why i have said before just how easy a engine swap it would be to go lc baring the rad. You wouldn't even need to take the motor out. There is blue and red wire on the drawing, runs from the main switch to the light switch and the parking light. From the wiring description it sounds like the chassis is a DT175mx (4J4) HTH

Assumption being the mother of all fuck ups whats the engine number, what side is the oil tank and battery, as the square section arm was a very common upgrade as people who used them hard (fast off road work) would crack them at the shock mount.

Nah sorry, that fellow with his little V12 blows the socks off that.

Get your manual see whats what and check every wire. I had this happen to me years ago, problem, one of the coil wires had touched the exhaust and earthed its self. Couldn't see it till the seat was off.

She must be nuts, all that for palming a couple of 100quid notes in Monopoly

Looks like he tried riding 2 bikes at the same time.

I have often thought of an early powervalve motor in my DT, that would be a very easy exercise, just the rad complicating things. The brakes are the biggest issue as they struggle to stop the 175, that is whats always stopped me. By the time you have swapped the motor then the brakes you may as well get something else..

I take it you have checked the sender unit, and its wiring.

Shame, NOT.

Task, i agree with everything there except for the riding in the trenches of the car tyres. I would not have said grip is best, more predictable maybe.

The critical component to cold weather riding is the actual rubber not the tread pattern. Winter/ off road tyres tyres have far more silica in them which makes them more effective in poor grip situations and lower temperatures. It is actually possible for extreem performance tyres, track day stuff to be nigh on useless below about 5deg. Open block tyres take this further by allowing more mud,snow,whatever from clearing the tread while biting into the surface as well. The other benefit of the knobbly in poor traction situations is the smaller surface area of the tread will prevent material getting between the tyre and the 'surface' the edge of the blocks also helping. BUT, you knew that was coming, for all the benefits they will hurt your stopping distances on a good surface against a regular tyre. They don't actually have to wear all that much for the grip to drop away substantially as a lot of it is from the edge of the blocks that round off. Throw into this the fact that they overheat and actually give much lower grip in hotter conditions and with more natural rubber harden up?. Overall though so long as you go with a min 60/40 road/dirt tyre you should have an all round good tyre that will work well in our climate. Giving away peak performance in the summer but giving it back in the poorer weather. I have been riding my DT for years in some pretty awful weather and also in the summer(yeah ok pretty awful weather). and used the same Bridgestone open block tyre for years, sadly not listed anymore and have never had grip/slip issues that i have had on any other bikes. Ok 15HP will hardly set the world on fire but it can bite.

Thats a nasty mix. Trouble is new looms aren't as complete as you might hope. There will be little sub looms and connectors that may or may not be in there too. Diagrams are not brilliant for that either, its a case of knowing what you do and don't need. As to the donor question its not unknown, positively common place with Land Rovers. The one good point is that if you remove the mag entirely there is plenty of meat to fix new wires to, i have done it with mine.

Where has the donor bike gone in all of this? Or was the donor bike's reg plate the only component swapped I take it you were running without lights, including the brake light too as there would be no charging either. Sounds wierd.

Oh my God....... There is just nothing to say to that, i was utterly captivated with that. Much repect, i wish i had a 10th of his skill.......

A common fault that costs a fortune to fix.