sherco29

It is ALIVE!!!!!!!!!! It did not want to run off choke at 1st. Coughed and snorted and then cleared out. Seems to be purring good now. What a tractor! Need to tweak my front fender a bit as its hitting the frame. The side panels are far to brittle to ride with. So need to ghetto-fab something up for them. Steering feels funny to me...sorta wants to flop over to full lock. Sorta got used to it but need to mess with rear pre-load and maybe raising the forks in the trees????

Little update and a question. Is it normal for some fuel to leak out the vent lines and make a mess of the top of the motor? Re-checked everything yesterday, floats are adjusted per the manual (parallel to body). Is my fuel level a tad high in the bowl? Or is it just going to dribble a lil gas now and then?

Wow very nice!!! I debated going full bore on this one. But I decided to keep it a "rider" for now. Maybe someday...it was very tempting when it was just a frame and motor sitting on a stand!

Just waiting on my order from BJRacing now. Due on thursday. Sooooo close!!!! I cant wait to ride this old girl!!!!!!!

I went with the GoPro. No regrets what so ever! Its bullet proof as long as its in the enclosure. Bunch of vids here. http://www.youtube.com/user/snomanizdman?feature=mhum#p/u Far as knocking it off your helmet goes, put it on the side of your helmet, or chest mount it...problem solved. Im using Pinnacle Studio 15 to edit.

You need quite a thick spacer on the TL. MUCH to thick for a stack of washers! The stock sprocket has a major dish to it! pic of the bjracing spacer. Looks to be a good 3/4"

Mine is stock geared. I think it was 14/57. The sprockets looked like new so I tossed a new chain on em. I did take note of the BJRacing spacer setup. Probably end up with that eventually. Higher priority will be replacing that bearing on the clutch release arm pivot...for now its smooth but has some play. I got a different arm off ebay as mine was pitted and worn where the needle bearing rides. So that and a new bearing should sort that. At least I can stand on it and balance in the shop now!

Farting around waiting on my last few parts to show up. Got the timing/valves/points adjusted. Fresh sticky rubber mounted up on it and my Montesa. Montesa rear was my first tubeless to mount, Man tubeless tires are sure easy to mount!! No worries about pinching tubes. My 20$ harbor freight tire changer I scored the other day helped out too! Nice having the wheels held solid!! Should have it down on its own 2 feet this afternoon. Need a throttle cable and airfilter then I can RIDE IT!!!!!!!

Spins over good with the plug out but locked up with it in? Any signs of the piston hitting the plug? Was it just so down on compression before that now it feels like its locked up?

Oya bit tweaked!! Keep us posted! And OMG LOL at that Wanted Poster!!!!!!!!Freaking AWESOME!! I got crazy on the old girl today. Sick of waiting around for parts, I decided to yank the side covers off the motor. Ohhhhboy...shoulda just left em on ahahaha. Do not even attempt to loosen the screws without an impact screwdriver! Left side cover has a CRAZY clutch arm setup and was very stuck on. The pivot area of mine was GNARLY. Think this is a common problem with these side covers...the xl250 uses the same cover I think. xlintperformance will re-bush and bearing your old case...spendy. The bearing is NLA from honda. I found one that I think will work tho a bit shallower than oem. For now, I cleaned it all up spotless, and free'd up the old needle bearing and greased the snot out of it. Clutch pull at the lever is about 10x easier now. I will have to deal with that bearing sooner or later though. When the Lside cover is off you have a good view of the cam chain. Mine was pretty loose. The adjuster was almost fully compressed tho so lots of room to take up some slack. Backed off the holder and it tightened right up. Clutch cover came off with no drama. Cleaned out the oil slinger filter next to the clutch. It had some gunk buildup...nothing to crazy. Need to grab more brake cleaner to finish up before I button that side up.

Ouch that sucks your swingarm is tweaked. Should not be to bad to get it back straight I would think though?? I like your folding shifter and extended clutch arm. I think I may go out to the shop and make one of those clutch arm extenders tonight! Clutch pull is stiff even with new cable.

Good to hear! What cylinder/piston did you have and what did you replace it with?

Second fork seal was even more stuck in there! Got it out and got my forks cleaned up and back together. Waiting on a correct upper steering bearing to put the front end together. Mean time, I got my rear fender mounted up while I was waiting. I fabbed a bracket to catch the bottom of the fender. Attached to the motor mount. We'll see if it holds up! Found this sticker in my box of goodies that came with the bike...figured it better go on there!

Thanks!

Its really interesting coming from the US seeing the way you guys haul your bikes! We put ours in the back of our huge full size diesel pickup trucks, or into a 6x12 enclosed trailer or some other overkill method! LOL I dig that trailer! Do you know what it weighs? Some blue fenders to match your bike on there would really finish it off!

Post up your findings please! I will be doing the same thing soon.

http://www.apexmotosports.com/montesa%20parts%20book/f-12.htm #2

I snatched a pair of Late Model YZ80 Footpegs off ebay for super cheap. 90% of the way to having them on with no mods to the bike. They are about 3x the size of those tiny stock pegs. My feet were not looking forward to standing on those lil stubs!!! Had to fab a shim to take up the slack as the yz pegs use a much wider pin to hold them on vs the small bolt the stock pegs use. That and a little grinding to thin up the yz pegs and they are on there! Need to grind up just a fuzz more as they are a lil too tight yet. Note to anyone that does this...grind on the non spring side of the peg more than the spring side! I screwed up a lil and ground to much off the spring side so now the spring is dragging a tiny bit on the peg mount. Also note! There is no way the stock kicker will clear these pegs...so I am going to have to figure a clever gadget to hold that peg up when kicking. Also started to tear down the forks. Never seen such funk-a-dunk come out of something...it may have been oil in a past life!?!? And the oil seal gave me MAJOR grief! Not looking forward to the next forkleg! After heating and slide-hammering at it until it was destroyed I had to get mid-evil on it. Managed carefully to get it out without screwing up the fork leg!

Ya I just came across that site a couple days ago! Looks like really nice stuff!

Nice!!!! It looks good with that fresh frame. Makes me sorta wish I would of torn mine all the way down...another day! Did you see the fender and tank on ebay today that sold for big bucks!?!? 170$ for the front fender! Im working at tearing down the forks. Have not gotten far. Think I will have to devise a special tool to pull them all the way down. Got new front wheel bearings in, rears are held with a retainer that is un-obtainable so I ordered the motion pro tool to undo it rather than bashing on it with a hammer and punch. If my throttle cable ever shows up I could at least fire it up!

Curious about all this as well. My 01 has a bit of piston rattle at idle. My Cylinder is marked A. Havent torn into it yet to see what piston is in it. Subscribed!

Ya I was going to go red...but it would not have been close to the old tank...then I found the silver ones on ebay! Its not perfect...but closer than the red would of been! It had white Preston Pettys on it with a little silver paint stuck on them. Got some parts today. All the Honda bits. Carb/Petcock back together, airbox back in and exhaust back on. Found 1 small crack I need to do something about on my pipe...but it can wait till I run it a bit. I want to bake that high temp paint on before I screw it up more!

Couple poser shots with the new silver fenders that just showed up. Sourced from an outfit on ebay in Colorado. Both will need some trimming up to get looking right...but should turn out good in the end I think! exhaust turned out great.

Sweet! Curious to see what you come up with for a tank cover/seat!

Been plugging away slowly but surely. Still waiting on parts to show up. Got the rear brake all cleaned up and ready to go back on. Dug through the random parts box that came with the bike and found this stuff... original grommet for the steering stem with hole for tank vent line, NEW chain tensioner rub block, 3/4 of the original chain guide for the rear sprocket, a pile of original lever boots, and original front fender extension! I need to do some repairs to both side panels. Will be fiber-glassing up the cracks from the back. I may have sourced some aftermarket side panels out of Taiwan for it. Need my carb/petcock parts and fork seals so I can start putting stuff back together!!!