Posts made by SpookDog

@stevie-wonder

Wd40 isn’t the best for finding leaks, spray it with carb or brake cleaner.

Check your stator side oil seal. Can be sucking air in there...

Ps. Barrel base gasket..

@stevie-wonder

I would check for massive air leaks around the carb & inlet, also maybe the magneto side oil seal. Especially if the revs are really ring-ting, ting, ting, ting fuel starved sounding...

@stevie-wonder

Did this start recently by itself? Or have you had the carb off then it happened?
Either way it sounds like a big airleak. Check the rubber inlet for cracks inside and out...

I just cured a mild tickover problem by fitting a new slide body gasket (slide top as well) Yours sounds massive though.

@jaimegonzalezlu
It’ll be black with white stripe then...

@rking7888

I just saw loads of ’dtr’ sprockets Being sold with 4 bolt holes, they looked like dtlc or yz

Go with O-rings please! X section if they do them. They are both better

@calum
I use them as well, good stuff...

@jaimegonzalezlu
it’s a black wire with yellow stripe (I think) that shares a connector with the ignition barrel, And a plain black earth wire...

It is on my 1988 Dtr anyway

@jaimegonzalezlu

Kill switch is just two wires. Follow them back to the loom. It sounds like a wire is broken inside the insulation.

The kill switch basicly earths the coil. I’d use the original switch gear...

@rking7888

Make sure you get the rear sprocket with six bolts...

There is a gold o-ring chain and JT sproket set on fleabay for about £45. I’ve had 4000 trouble free miles from it. Just adjusted it every 1000 mile or so...

Just search for JT oring chain dtr125

@stevie-wonder

If you have compressed air it makes them easier to work on. Just make sure the jets are clear and blow through any holes in the carb so they’re clear too...

@declan
Is the KTM headlight a similar fit? Or totally different shape and size?...
Cheers bud

Can anyone please tell me if there is a difference between the early Dtr headlight reflector units that used the old bulb type and the later dtre units that I imagine were fitted with Halogen bulbs? Or were they?...

I’ve fitted a few different bulbs to my old type headlight reflector unit and the beam placement is shite at best...

I know that the later RE bikes have far superior magneto power outputs, as well as DC ‘battery assisted’ headlights. I just want to know if I can retrofit a decent bulb somehow? Or need to change the reflector?...
Nights have been very dark lately

@hotshot-iii

My crank case has been leak free even using synthetic gear oil, for 4000 miles now. I used generic red semi hardening Hermatite like stuff. Blue Hylomar was good enough for Rolls Royce, but I really think it’s all about preparation. Make sure the surfaces to be mated are flat, level clean and grease free...

Then cross your fingers when you fill it with gear oil!

@hotshot-iii

Use Castrol racing, fully synthetic...

You can adjust the stroke of the pump with shims or washers. But judging by the amount of oil splurged out the tailpipe when I was on auto lube and how it is now at premixed 2% 50-1, I’d say it was at 33-1 with the auto lube as standard...

@anything2t
What cc is the bike? What diameter are the Stantions?...

@anything2t
Google is your friend!

@dtlee

Everything you need is out there. I can’t help you, I don’t have a computer. I found everything out by searching on my phone...

I would change the exhaust back to standard as well. Just to check and tick it off the list. You never know it could be blocked up with carbon oil and shit...

The only other thing is: does it cut back regardless of throttle position? I can achieve 10,000 rpm at 1/2 throttle. Does yours cut back at different throttle position as it reaches 6-8k? Say if you maintain 1/3 throttle in second gear?

@dtlee

Recheck the power valve isn’t 180 degrees out. Try putting the reed back in place and riding. Just to humour me ...

@spookdog

Did you remove and clean the outside of the needle valve tube? You tap it in and up through the throttle valve body to remove it. Mine was cemented up with micro fine sand stuff...

P.S. Did this come on all of a sudden or gradually get worse?...

@dtlee @dtlee

I stuck the outlet (skinny) pipe into the inlet (fatter) pipe to cause a continuous loop. Been like that and ok for a 1000 miles, just don’t forget to block the inlet manifold oil inlet. I just cut and folded over some pipe, then zip tied it.
It stopped messing it’s pants all over the number plate now as well since I’ve been on pre mix...

I can’t remember what I’ve asked you before, but t did you do anything to the bike before it started happening? Even if it was a month before or seems irrelevant?...