Help Ed's Incredible Honda Restoration 2025.

**BLD** · 27-05-2025, 03:25 PM

Originally Posted by Salsa dancer

Yeah...wtf ? A piston, with rings and a gudgeon pin clearly visible. Are you throwing this in to have us on, Ed ? Surely not ?

Don't forget to zilch the frambulator.

He's doing a fair bit of valving for sure

**Edmond** · 27-05-2025, 03:34 PM

Me ranch is around 8km from the old city and easy as piddle to get to if anyone's near that fancies showing me how to remove and clean the TD Mobile's carb in exchange for taking away a few Hoegaarten.

**Salsa dancer** · 27-05-2025, 03:35 PM

Did that stand and other stuff come stashed separately ? That's what I am guessing.

This is a piston. The cylinder on the left is a gudgeon pin, and holds the piston to the conrod.

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If those parts were stashed somewhere (you don't say...they just appear) then I guess that was an old piston and you have a better one installed.

**BLD** · 27-05-2025, 03:37 PM

Originally Posted by Looper

The rockets were Zoom, for boys.

Fab was square and for girls.

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Indeed, a lot of lollies had to get a nomenclature to appease the politically correct. Redskins got changed to red rippers in case a native American took offence. Chicos are now called cheekies, in case you are a bit dusky and precious . all seems a a bit daft to me. But that's how this woke shit got started? Next thing ya know. Grown men are riding around on a pink scoopy or some such gay fooking scooter. Innit. But anyhoo. Over to you eddo

**Salsa dancer** · 27-05-2025, 03:38 PM

This thing in your hand is a piston with rings. Must be all of a massive 80cc. You are holding the gudgeon pin.

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**Edmond** · 27-05-2025, 03:38 PM

Originally Posted by Salsa dancer

Did that stand and other stuff come stashed separately ? That's what I am guessing.

That bag was found under the sink, exactly as shown.

No other information is available at this current time.

Going back there now. Who knows, I may find a carb.

**Edmond** · 27-05-2025, 03:40 PM

Originally Posted by BLD

Grown men are riding around on a pink scoopy or some such gay fooking scooter.

Well I would if it fookin' moved.

I usually ride a Kawa 650cc or Ninja 400, depending on which roads I'm going on, cheers. :-)

**Molle** · 27-05-2025, 04:09 PM

Originally Posted by Edmond

Looks very dirty around the carborateur. Was it that dirty (oily) or is it only an illusion?

**Edmond** · 27-05-2025, 04:37 PM

It certainly wasn't clean.

The whole was caked in crud, mainly consisting of mud, dirt, oil, sludge and mouse droppings mixed with bits of mouse nest.

**marcusb** · 27-05-2025, 08:11 PM

Originally Posted by pickel

I was gonna ask him if he was still using the old fuel that was in the tank. Are you, Eddo?

If he hasnt done this it's a waste of time trying to analyze anything.

**DrWilly** · 28-05-2025, 12:23 AM

Originally Posted by Salsa dancer

This thing in your hand is a piston with rings. Must be all of a massive 80cc. You are holding the gudgeon pin.

Can you valve it?

**VocalNeal** · 28-05-2025, 10:40 AM

This looks horrible. Look at all the metal missing from the ends of the cooling blades. It is OK to run for diagnostic problems but I wouldn't gift it to someone like that.
The belt is usable but when you take the bike to a mechanic to get the pulley replaced might as well do the belt as well while they have to cover off.

The nut in the picture will be quite tight and has to be replaced tight as does the one on "the round thing"

So to do it yourself you'll need a 22mm socket a 19 or 17 ? mm socket and a breaker bar or torque wrench plus the clutch tool/holder I posted before.

When you put the new carb. on check the fuel cock is working.

**Edmond** · 28-05-2025, 10:40 AM

Just to confirm, the fuel line to the carb should be vacuum operated?

So pulling it off from the carb isn't going to result in a flow of fuel?

**Edmond** · 28-05-2025, 10:44 AM

Originally Posted by VocalNeal

This looks horrible. Look at all the metal missing from the ends of the cooling blades. It is OK to run for diagnostic problems but I wouldn't gift it to someone like that.

Thank you for the good info.

I'll look at replacing all of these sorts of parts once it is up and running, so to speak.

Today I'll try to remove the carb, have a good stern look at it, attempt to clean it or see if parts need replacing etc.

If I can get it starting and running/moving it will be great. Then time to buy new parts and install them. Thanks for the help VN. :-)

**Edmond** · 28-05-2025, 11:24 AM

S01E03

Going Carb Free.

Ed removes the carb, looks at it. Doesn't know what he's looking at.

Attempts to get it cleaned and serviced while annoyingly looking over the shoulder of some lad he hires to do it.

**Edmond** · 28-05-2025, 11:27 AM

Charged up the battery and gave it a few kicks, same as ever it gave a few lil chugs. Didn't bother with the 20 minute routine to get it idling.

Bit of unscrewing, jiggling and pulling later:

**Edmond** · 28-05-2025, 11:32 AM

No idea of what I'm looking at, other than a load of screws that me screwy won't unscrew.

Off to some motosai man to hopefully get it taken apart and cleaned.

Any comments welcome.

Cheers chaps/chapettes.

**VocalNeal** · 28-05-2025, 12:23 PM

Originally Posted by Edmond

Just to confirm, the fuel line to the carb should be vacuum operated?

So pulling it off from the carb isn't going to result in a flow of fuel?

Yes. Assuming it isn't stuck open. Keep a Ty-wrap handy . If fuel leaks kink the pipe and put the Ty-wrap around it.

You'll have to take the top off to check the diaphragm. 2 screws. Ah OK you already have so...?

Was the carb. full of fuel. Did it leak out when you tipped the carb. upside down? No. Then the fuel cock is the problem.

**Edmond** · 28-05-2025, 12:31 PM

So off I ridez to a wee shop that I've passed but never went into.

Some lad of around 50 that doesn't have a cabal of young chimp... young lads working there, which is a bonus IMHE.

Showed him me wares and told him I want the carb dismantled and cleaned, he said a few hours.

I said I want us to do it together, so I can see how it's done and learn about it.

And I quite liked his answer, as it showed some integrity and respect to his customers.

Instead of taking a quick buck, saying sure, then tearing into it, he said he's busy with a customer's engine right now, but how about tomorrow?

Obviously I could just take it elsewhere today and he'd lose the few hundred baht or whatever, but was obviously loyal to his current customer that wasn't there.

Plus he had two 650s he was working on, so I was happy to agree to 9am tomorrow morning.

Stop off at the 7.

Had 5 Hoey's in me basket when I spotted some Hnks. Had Hoey's last week so replaced them with the H's to see what they're like.

I honestly believe that last time I drank H was after work pints in Silom around 2010. That's fookin' 15 years ago.

O'Reilly's, a Thai Beatles cover band, and advertisements of Tiger and H pints for 99thb or some shiz rings a bell perhaps.

Anyway.

It's 12:30pm. I'm done for the day, and got a fine set o' oily greasy paws on me. The wind's starting to howl, the birds are singing, and a good ol' torrential downpour is a threatening. Might as well go full-BLD and have an ol' swirly-wobbly-frosty-pop on me verandah's hanging egg chair and retire for the day.

Bit o' wordling and scrabbling and will be free for a good ol' bit of family-orientated argy-bargy around 3pm perhaps if anyone wants to be penciled in? Ah shure, kids, stature, location, finances, weight, hobbies, we could go right at it until it's time to order in dinner.

Cheers chaps/chapettes.

**VocalNeal** · 28-05-2025, 12:37 PM

If you had undone the clamp instead of removing the manifold, you wouldn't need a new gasket.

**Edmond** · 28-05-2025, 12:45 PM

Originally Posted by VocalNeal

If you had undone the clamp instead of removing the manifold, you wouldn't need a new gasket.

Whoops-a-lulu.

Cheers.

I don't suppose installing the freshly cleaned carb without a new gasket will effect it's ability to (hopefully) start, run, and move too much?

*crosses fingers*

**Edmond** · 28-05-2025, 12:48 PM

Originally Posted by VocalNeal

Was the carb. full of fuel. Did it leak out when you tipped the carb. upside down? No. Then the fuel cock is the problem.

Fuel leaked out, but I couldn't say if it was full of fuel or not.

It spilled out when I tipped it over, perhaps half a shot glass full.. 25ml, at a completely uneducated guess.

**Edmond** · 28-05-2025, 12:52 PM

Originally Posted by VocalNeal

You'll have to take the top off to check the diaphragm. 2 screws. Ah OK you already have so...?

Let me check the photos I posted as I'm not sure which top this is.

This light gray piece?

I could unscrew one screw, but the other screw was too tight and it started to washout the screw head, or whatever the term is, so I left it for the mechanic to unscrew or remove tomorrow. Cheers.

**Edmond** · 28-05-2025, 12:55 PM

I sent a message to the old tenant asking about the green book. It should be somewhere unless she took it with her. If I can get that I have the exact model number and can easily order the OEM parts from Honda.

By tomorrow evening it could possibly be running perfectly with a clean carb, with the green book and model number in me paw ready to order in parts to make it like new again. *fingers crossed*

**Shutree** · 28-05-2025, 01:32 PM

Originally Posted by Edmond

Off to some motosai man

Very wise.

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