Drew Lane

Seafoam is miracle juice for mototcycles! http://www.webbikeworld.com/sea-foam/

Ok, so to this point, I've done the following: 1. New fuel, 91 octane, with a dash of Seafoam 2. New crankcase oil; NOT synthetic 3. Cleared 2-cycle tank, refilled with new 4. New NGK plug gapped to 0.64mm She's running a LOT better now, but still seems to bog out WOT, even when you creep up on it and roll the power on gradually. Also seems to have a bit of a sticky clutch. Clutch will fully engage, but it's like something just holding it then letting it go all of a sudden. So, I used some penetrating oil on the cables (clutch and throttle) to see if that will help. Any other ideas out there?

I'll try the pre-mix thing. No, I didn't change the 2 stroke oil yet. The guy said he'd just added it recently to try to start the cycle. But, what he meant by recently and what I mean by recently could be very different. I'll try the pre-mix and I'll also change out the 2 cycle. Will post what I find here.

It's definitely two stroke smoke. Smells and looks like a weed whacker from Maximum Overdrive on a killing spree.

I exhausted the search option on the forum, so I hope this isn't a repeat of something someone else has already asked. So, yesterday, I bought a 1978 DT175E in running condition for $350.00. It had been sitting in a garage and hadn't run in 6 years. After a few kicks and with the choke full on, it finally started. But, as you can imagine, it wasn't a happy camper. It had what the guy described a "pretty fresh" 2-cycle oil in the reservoir. I put clean gas in it with some Seafoam. I also dumped the pan oil and replaced it with some fresh dino oil and a little Seafoam in there, too. I also pulled the carb, disassembled it and cleaned all the pilots and jets. Soaked the disassembled assembly in parts cleaner, cleaned all of that with hot, soapy water, air blasted all the parts dry, swabbed it with rubbing alcohol (90%) then applied penetrating oil in a very light fashion. The bike starts easily now and even idles! But, it ain't coming to the party just yet. When I get the bike running, 1st and 2nd gear are as fun as a roll in they hay with a redhead. But, when you open the throttle clear up and stir the tranny, she gives you the blue smoke like crazy and the engine bogs down completely. It's obvious that it's getting way too much oil in the mixture. So, the question I have is this: Is there an adjustment on the oil mix that I can make? Is it at the carb, the oil pump or somewhere else? I really don't want to go the route of pre-mixing my fuel all the time. It's pointless, IMHO, when you have a perfectly good oil pump.