That Honcho was very lucky to find you.

btw ... I have a shop manual for that bike if you need any info on it.

 

I have a shop manual for that bike if you need any info on it.

Thank you for that. Maybe you could give me some carb numbers like jet sizes, how many turns out, etc.

My son has a TS50 that he bought from Jack Cole. Absolutely loves it.

Good to hear that.

The guy has a nice little 50 with appropriate aged patina on it. That little one would be perfect for my wife.

So my next step is to clean out the carb and the entire fuel system...lines, petcock, tank, filter, etc. I can't get into the tank right away but it doesn't look like the nightmare tank off the FZR. Looks like a mixture of some varnish, sludge and rust.....hopefully more of everything else than rust. Even so a liner may be in its future.

 

Great buy!

My son has a TS50 that he bought from Jack Cole. Absolutely loves it.

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Great buy!

My son has a TS50 that he bought from Jack Cole. Absolutely loves it.

 

I think these are all the carburetor relevant pages:
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... it might take a while but I'll find out how much it would cost to mail you the book, if it's not outrageous I'll get you to PM me your mailing address and send it to you.

 

Thank you!

I'll pay for it and shipping.....just let me know. Paypal...money order...whatever you need. Thanks again and no hurry at all...take your time

 

My 2nd bike was a TS90 with factory 110 kit it used a half moon rotary valve and was a rocket but never could get it set up right it would eat pistons regularly 15-20 hour was all it was good for. KEEP IT STOCK. keep the oil pump and keep mixing some in the tank too.

 

keep the oil pump and keep mixing some in the tank too.

Sound advice...

It will remain stock......with the exception of the cat rear tailight....like right out of a 70s J.C. Whitney catalog that my wife wanted. So far counting that and a clean set of shocks and forks I'm around $110 in parts.

 

So many think toss the pump and just run premix....not on rotary valve motor designed to be oiled at the valve and a crank bearing.

 

Same thing,gas oils the crank also if premixed,just like a rm kx cr yz . you can premix these bike's 32to1

 

Received the shocks from ebay. They were very clean. Installed they look out of place around all that rust.

 

Took some items off so I could get a good clean with a power washer. Still a lot of rust on stuff though that will never come off. I have a better view of the wiring harness now that the oil/dirt is gone.

I've spent nearly $170 on parts so far.

 

I really didn't want to paint anything as it would stand way out right next to everything else dirty and rusty but a couple of heavily rusted areas I needed to "rattle can" them. The original filters are non-existent so I used 2 layers of the uni foam.....one oiled and one not.....just like my HT-1.

So things are getting greased up and serviced and cleaned up. Kick start lever was cleaned and greased with new rubber installed..

The biggest modification this bike will see is the cat tail light.

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Working on the carb slowly while waiting for the new throttle cable.

Funny how gunked up this carb was it still managed to run fairly well......although it idled erratically.

 

Don't add extra oil to the gas if you'er running an oil pump, it will run lean.

 

Run Rich not Lean

 

Wow.......I lost an entire page in this thread. Oh well

Cleaned the carb and installed new lines, cables and replaced the old dug out fasteners with new ones.

 

Wow.......I lost an entire page in this thread. Oh well

Lost 2 pages of the Guzzi thread a few weeks ago. Now it's gone completely.

 

awesome revival thus far!

 

I've been trying to look up parts from my usual joints (Chaparral & Bikebandit) but both places have no reference of the model for years 71 & 72. All the little rubber pieces disintegrated when I disassembled the petcock. The only thing that kinda looks similar is the valve from the TS50.......same years.

 

could you just replace it with a more common one?

or overkill it with a pingel?

 

Contact Sudco They may be able to help you. They might be able to cross reference an equivalent kit, or adapt another petcock.

 

I'll look to see what I can find laying around; fwiw they leaked a tiny little bit when you changed the lever position, even when they were still fairly new, not a lot, only enough to make your gloves smell like leaded gasoline.

 

I forgot all about Sudco....I'll call them later.

There's one on ebay now..for the TS50 and a host of others...for $19 shipped from Indonesia. It looks like it would work...but if I could save the old bones from the original that would be nice.

Mine didn't leak Trials due to all the rust setiment in the strainer bowl. The tank has some rust but not horrible. I may try to clean it only with evaporust.


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Wow.....this thread lost like 2 out of 3 pages.

I've developed some pin noise I can tell and now it won't idle correctly without the choke on or partially on. But just running around on it with a tire that looses air quickly I can tell it is quicker than my HT-1....or I think it is.

 

only way I could view your post was hit reply, go advanced and scroll down the page :/

I found a carburetor, head, barrel & piston, and some ignition switches but it's probably all in way way worse condition then yours

... whoops, there it is, maybe I fixed it

 

Yikes, that's a nasty sound, I'd be tempted to pull the head and see what's happening in there.

 

yes they were quick rotary valve makes for great power in a long spread and the expansion chamber as well
the pipe on the suzi looks more like a tuned cone affair than the yamaha because it is
all tech from gp racing that suzi got from that self exiled east german fellow i would first pull off the ex pipe and have a look see
if the cyl bore is sweet and the ring at the ex port good then its probably maybe wrist pin knock or rotary valve noise ?

 

I haven't done anything to this for awhile......just riding motorcycles.

But I'm cleaning out the garage and found these forks I purchased so I decided to install them and going to mount the tire that's been sitting here for awhile. The chrome on the slider is horrible but the hard chrome is much better and that is what really matters right now.

 

With the new tires it rides nice and like I said before...seems to have more pickup than the ht-1. It also feels like a bigger motorcycle than the yamaha with its higher seat height, wider tank and more power. I rode it more today than ever before...just around my neighborhood. The fuel valve was rebuilt but with the rust in the tank it plugs the screen after awhile. I just put about a half of gallon of fuel just to get more running time on it. It will need to have the rust removed. It's a nice candidate for restoring but with all the chrome it would be costly. Maybe just not worth it.

The pin noise.....or what I believe is the pin noise is still there although not that prevalent. I need to pull that and see what's up.....along with another go at the carburetor as its starving for fuel and occasionally I needed to engage the choke to keep it running.

 

Sweet. My first "real" bike was a 73 TC100. I learned a whole lot and went a lot of places both good and bad on it.