Well, as some of you remember back in October, Gogar had this Elsinore taking up space and wanted to get rid of it. I kindly obliged. It hadn't run in a while, and was missing a couple of things. here is a before picture:
My first goal was to get it running. Gogar said it was running fine before the banjo bolt for the oil injection system broke. The engine "stop run stop" switch was also broken. Otherwise, it has been ridden its whole life, but in general was in pretty good shape.
We already have a 2001 CR250R and my daughter has a CRF50F, so we already have our share of dirt bikes but this one is pretty low to the ground, so the plan is to have my wife learn how to ride on it. Plus, it has lights, so night rides will be fun as well when we are camping.
Back to the "restoration" (a term I use loosely, since I do not planning on taking it apart bolt by bolt at this time). The gas hadn't been drained prior to parking, so the green liquid that I think was gas at one point and time, had gummed up. Among other things the carb needed some love.
I won't go into too much detail, but here are some pictures:
Starting the tear down, the oil tank for the injection has been removed, and the supply line to oil pump has been connected to the discharge line, creating a circuit with oil it so the pump doesn't burn up. I premix for my other bike, and generally as a rule don't trust the oil injection systems, I ground down a bolt to perfectly fill the hole in the intake that the oil injection went into:
Right side, notice the new front tire, god I hate changing those, but more on that later:
The headlight is out, as the broken switch also controls the headlight, so to remove the switch I had to dive into that massive wiring harnass. Gogar, that switch has been a pain in the rear to locate. Its listed as NLA, but I have one more place to try, anyways, it looked like a pretty simple switch, so I have a toggle switch soldered in there temporarily that works like a charm. I think the switch housing from an early 80's Honda Nighthawk is an exact match, so I may go that route if I have to.
Here is a spot of some smiling goon, I am surprised the flash off my dome didn't ruin the picture (notice the Porsche content):
more to come.....