Teflon-Mike

THAT unfortunately isn't going to happen. 1am this morning, I loked out the window while waiting for the kettle to boil and thought, "The cover's the wrong colour?" I was looking at a 'space' and seeing the pink cover over my other half's bike! STOLEN Registration: NUY640P Taken in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, United Kingdom. FAIRLY distinctive machine! With many unique and identifiable features, if ANY-ONE knows of its whereabouts, please contact Warwickshire Police

Personaly I'm a bit lost. 'Any-one done the above'... and above is the words 'inlet manifold'? Is there a picture missing? What's the question?

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Looks like mine ( ) tubular swing-arm, mon-shock, 1978 DT175MX, only has later '79 on sculpted side panels. MX suffix was to denote the 'mono-cross' rear suspension; US may have retained earlier suffix; or could be just admin in the licence office. 78 & 79 models differ from later mono-shock 175's; most obviousely they have a tubular swing arm, rather than the later box section one. The air-box and oil reservoir are also different; and on opposite sides to later bikes. Battery-Box/Air-Box was moved from the right hand side on the 78/79 models to the Left side, oil reservoir the opposite way. Early 78 models had 'flat' side panels, without the sculpting yours has. Behind LH Side-Panel - space where I dont actually HAVE an oil reservior! During tear-down; air-box on RHSide Freshly painted the 'flat' side-panels Starting to come together again!

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I got the bike fired up yesterday afternoon, after much swearing; but couldn't get anything out of the lighting coils, or at least I don't think so... didn't get chance to go through all perms before bike died and my leg was to knackered to try starting it again! & after much muggering with points though I'd JUST have a look inside the 125E engine, and LO! CDI back-plate... so got some messing to do! Right, Decals: There are many on e-bay;' just about every design variation of either US or Euro design, and colour. But the 'box' design for a '78 model is particularly 'rare'. Found ONE, but for white or blue bike, with red in-fill in the seat end segment. But is a bit pricey at £50. And I'm 'fussy' I want something that looks 'right' for the yellow bike I have. If you look at the red & black Super-Dreams I did this year on the spot-the-difference thread; Decals on those bikes are non-standard. There are virtually no decal kits for Super-Dream 125's so I ended up getting a chap to make some! Had choice of what to go for, so instead of the 'correct' livery for an early bike as both those are, did a variation o the chevron used on middle era models, that weren't badged Super-Dream and adapted it a bit to suit! Process starts with taking a rubbing on tracing paper to get a template of the original stickers....... THIS is somewhat tricky on the DT where I had none to start with. HENCE picture with bits of paper cut out and celotaped to the bodywork, before final prep and painting! Basically, photographed the bike; nicked whatever pics I could off the web, did a rough outline rubbing of the tank, actually scanned one of the side panels, then used them to make an outline template in a photo-editor..... which I then pasted and sized photos of variouse decals over to get a rough, then tidied up to look how I wanted... then I printed it on bits of paper.... stuck them together with celotape..... cut them out and stuck them on the bike! Flatted them to the tank and panels, and then went back and 'tweeked' my patern to get them to 'work'! Ie got 'crafty' Not yet got back to the chap that made my Super-Dream Decals, but hoping that once I have a set of templates and some art work for him; he'll use that to lazer some vynal I can apply to the finished paint and then laquer in, for not TOO much money... but I wont know until I get round to asking him.... if not few other folk make to order.... just a matter of how much they'll charge, and what they want by way of art-work and patterns.

Well, the covers of my AT2 twinshock motor DO NOT FIT the MX engine Mag cover, bolt pattern is out by about 45 Degrees and even then they dont all line up. Sproket cover only goes on with one bolt, other hands in free space.... there is a tapped hole vaguely in the vacinity, but its not in line with the cover hole.

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