Airhead

send her round here, she can look for my mobile

some plan b ideas (option 1) NEO theres a building tutorial here, I didnt bother mainly because building for £30 and no postage costs was good enough for me I may have my old spokes at work, i'll check next week...if I can make sense of them I will post them to manchester xtreme if you want? http://yamahadtclub....thread=4&page=1 (option 2) I have a nice set of DT wheels with stainless spokes, if you want I could have them posted to you so you can rebuild yours at your leisure all I ask is you keep them clean because I will be selling them on ebay at some point

I had my wheels re-chromes Alan, then I took (with samples of spokes) them to http://www.manchesterxtreme.co.uk/ The chap they use to build makes/ or has made...ss pokes to match the samples build cost was around £60 each wheel using low grade SS spokes, incidentally I prefer those to the polished high grade ones and thay are far cheaper. I just phoned them for you and spokes only will be £1.50 / £2.00 per spoke for spokes only here they are

thats yer lot I would think

PM me your name / address roff I just had a look at Tonys pics, it seems that it was a banjo fitting so mine might be different, I'll send it anyway just in case, perhaps if its a close fit you can use rapid araldite to secure it? all this assuming I can remove it OK One thing is clear though...thats the right place for it unlike the pic I found...wonder if he seized it

yeah mines a small bath but not as small as some, I can do a carb body with turning it over occasionally as its not completely submerged. Dont expect miracles they arent industrial ones after all! Mine is big enough to fit a CD into. This one in fact http://ie.farnell.com/duratool/d00351/cleaner-ultrasonic-1-4l/dp/1316381 my bike is more of a rolling restoration than a full on one, it has been rough in the past...I owned her from new and used as a winter hack for many years. yours looks really promising I must say, should come up really nice, If you decide to do her up nice why not show us in the projects forum...it would be good to follow and try to answer any questions you might have. Let me know about the spigot...that carb body is at work. I dont want to pull it out for nothing.

Neutral light on Aidan, choke in UP (ON) position

here? http://www.downloadweb.org/minimal.php?acode=084243855820f9ca47f466f645784636&q=virago%20xv125%20service%20pdf&r=4megaupload.com

I didnt use wire brush..take care with that, needs to be quite soft or one of the brass ones. First was ultrasonic cleaning bath followed by plenty of gentle crud scraping in the nooks and crannies with a scratch brush (ebay), then plenty of polishing using T Cut rags and cotton buds, Heres mine if you can see it

I have a spare carb body for 175, you verify the hole goes through to the inlet and i'll knock out the spigot and send it you

mine arent either mate, sometimes a magnifiying glass is useful I havent any experience with the spigots but i would imagine they are a slight taper fit and tapped into place, if i might suggest you shove something into the RD spigot that is a good fit (a welding rod for example) this will support it from crush damage as you remove it, also wrap a piece of rubber around it to protect the ouside from the pliers...I reckon it should pull out easily really

Having read again what tony said and looked at your photo, I too would lean toward the fact the spigot has actually gone missing from the hole, like I said a breather spigot will have no ridges around it and the one in the photo looks like a breather spigot! of course its possible that the picture I found on the web is also wrong eh? see if theres a hole right through the apparent hole heres my 175 carb for what its worth, you can clearly see the difference between the oil and breather spigots

you have done it?

have a word with Paul Dawkins on the DT forum david, he can do this for you I think http://yamahadtclub.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=newestthreads

its not just the yamaha club meet weimi, its the 2 stroke rideout, you would definitely regret not being a part of it me thinks! 2 wheels came from Southern Ireland on his DT125R...via Scotland...you should do it in 3/4 hours easily

err well that was my first thought but I found this picture which seems to suggest the one you think it may be, having said that oil spigots tend to have pointed rings around them to grip the pipe and breathers ate smooth with a bulbous end Have a poke through that spigot to make sure it is a clear passage into the carb venturi and away you go

yes thats a breather roffster, a picture of the other side perhaps?

yep a sure way to cause damage to your pride and joy but a necessary evil to keep the roads safe

were just about to give up for the year (well the part timers) because of the road salting season in UK

that explains it...it hardly rains there eh?...she's a beauty

Tell me...that pic was taken the day you bought her? Greetings old fart

Hey you were lucky to find that 'Tower'..? carrier weimi...just the thing for a weekend camping at squires...the perfect place to showcase her...

wow thats going to be a beast, show us when its done stu

so theres nothing wrong then, but you are concerned about prolonged high revving of the old girl? If thats the case I would just fit whatever was the standard...I think that was 15T on my 175

greetings Henk, not many of those around these days, we dont often see them in here. How about a picture?