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Greetings elmarax, great bike fella make the most of the next 1.5 months then...It's HOT HOT HOT here in the uK for a change

of course it's loose, you can clearly see in the photo that shaft is worn to hell on one side of the splines !

Greetings zum florida eh...that must be awful for ya

describe the wires to the starter relay...size...colour etc have you got a multimeter?

It's better than your superman dude

in the piture is that some sort of ring that needs to be undone first? yeah it sounds like the head gasket is the problem to me too...white smoke = steam...on a watercooled engine

photos always help ben

Nice one Jimmy...what about the airfilter then...aye tickle that carb lol

I cant see any of it being any good after 30 years outdoors in all weathers, best to leave it be...to become part...even a feature of it's surroundings

Greetings Damon, great intro and yeah the DTR looks good. yeak re-pack the silencer you will notice the difference but I wouldnt recommend that loose stuff, get the sheet packing is it seiki's forum thats vanished then?

Greetings 'Space Cowboy'

Fraid not, leave it to rest in the forest fella

Thanks for the update, glad you've got the hang of it now. My car's a bit like that...starts when I release the key

Greetings diddy

Its most likely the starter relay thats at fault, you'll need to check that out but thats just my guess, I'm not familiar with the bike other than I've seen some lol. Have you got a service manual? that would help

is the bike in neutral with the netral light ON Jack? Here is a free to download owners manual for your bike, from the Yamaha UK website http://ymenvom.crestec.nl/new/manuals/U3D9E2.PDF

Did you set up your timing chain properly as per the manual Pete?

way too big a jump IMO john, you'll get away with it in 2 miles of course because the engine wont be so hot

Take care removing the cover, the gasket will be stuck some the the inner case and some to the outer case, dont part it far and tease it off one of them with something wemoto sell the gasket on its own http://www.wemoto.com/bikes/yamaha/dt_175_mx/78-79/picture/clutch_cover_gasket/

I make that a 1979 DT175F

i feel a 'grouch' coming on