Hope this goes well! I picked up an NSR MC18 today, and wanted to share her with everyone. I will be fixing her up and I am looking to members for ideas and insperation. (And advice!)
Apparently she used to run about 6 months ago, when the carbies started to play up. She still ran hard when "on the pipe" but strugled down low. The carbies were pulled out and fiddled with and some white gunk discovered in them. This prompted the owners to try to rebuild her, but the task became all to hard, and she has sat for the last 6 months in pieces with the carbies out.
So I am the proud new owner and ready to take on the challange of fixing and owning a bike I have wanted for ever!
The good bits:
- Everything appears to be stock
- Everything seems to be just a little dusty and dirty.
- Brakes and clutch work. Front break disks were replaced.
- Nice clean 2 stroke oil in the oil tank.
- I'm keen and excited
The bad bits:
- The petrol tank is not good. All the fittings have been removed and the lock and filler are siezed.
- All the locks are stiff and I can't turn the ignition yet.
- It has been sitting for 6 months with no carbs on it, just some rags stuffed into the intake tracts
- One of the high tension leads came apart in my hand when I went to pull a plug out
- It has done 28,000 ks and no one knows if it has ever been opened up.
- Its dirty and dusty
- Its an MC18 and parts are getting harder to find.
It looks mostly ok to me, and I am keen to get it back to gether so as to gain a base point from where to go to next. I need to clean the carbies well and give everything a once over.
I will also be ordering a manual to work out where all the hoses around the carby go!
A few questions:
- Is there a way of testing whether the oil pump is working without running the bike?
- In the attached photos, are the guages supposed to point down on such an angle? From looking at how they are bolted on and at other NSRs the answer seems to be yes.
- Any advice on starting a bike that has sat for 6 months? I will replace the coolant that has been drained, (I hope, there is none visible!) before I start.
Anyway, here are the pics.
