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HONDA TL 250 Bials 1975 Project
Part 3: Allmost finished
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| red & silver | side cover selfmade alu |
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| longer clutch lever for 1 finger, engine no 1000156 | gear lever Beta, foot pegs Hebo |
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| 40cm falcon shocks (38cm original) | muffler missing, plumbing tube fitted, Pre65 look |
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| Sammy Miller mudgard stay | kicker from XL250, drilled and chromed brake lever |
What did I do so far? Let me think:
- Front forks plus jokes from ebay. Originals where rusty inside, cause no oil, aluminium jokes welded. So I have a spare part now. Both forkes are moving with resistance. Top springs are missing, replaced by other springs, not originals. New seals fitted (bjracing.com), new clips(metal shop), 5 fork oil filled.
- Front wheel (TL 125) complet from ebay USA, new tire & tube
- Front brake cleaned, new shoes (bjr), new cable fitted
- New mudguard stay Sammy Miller (bjr) from TL 125 fitted
- Rear wheek with new Bultaco inox spokes from Orlando Calonder, new tire & tube, all pollished
- Falcon Shocks (bjr) fitted, 40cm instead of 38cm original, more ground clearance, easier handling for narrower sections. They look great with the chromed springs, but they are soft, too soft? have to preload the springs on max. Feeling is, that they are softer and better than the Betors on my Bultaco M49.
- New chain tensioner (Sammy Miller) fitted, cause it was missing. It took me a whole afternoon, cause it sratched either the pegpounts (bent somewhat from a crash) or the chain. Finally it works, but only 1mm between chain or pegmount.
- Hebo footpegs from Chris Weilenmann, right side without spring, have to fold it to kick (due to XL kicker lever, I need a TL 250 one)
-Both side covers from ebay, newly painted, clutch lever cleaned and greased. longer lever fitted for 1 finger clutch, new sealings (ebay for Honda XL250).
- New handlebar, new levers&cables&grips (bjracing.com), new Domino throttle, cables nicely routed, brake routing from Honda Taiana, 1 self made
- Gear lever alu, foldable, from Beta, looks great
- No endmuffler, was bidding twice on ebay, but went over 250$, so i fitted a plumber tube, looks kind of pre65...
- Saddle from ebay, fitted, back mounting missing, cut and drilled myself
- 2 side covers from thin aluminium sheets
- tank was washed several times with gasoline(with mom's coffe paper filter). I could not loosen the screw holding the cog, but Peter from Honda Taiana could. He even found a new filter in his magical drawers.
- Tank was sprayed in red (ground lacker first), fotos as rough copy. Instead of silver, I left it in aluminium. Fits better with the alu covers and has kind of oldtimer look. The black lines where als painted, but without ground lacker, did not keep, so I scratched them away again. I also bought a neutral lacker, but I left it, because I could easily repair scratches in the red later. A Honda-Wing-Sticker was attached and it looks quite good now.
- Carb was cleaned at Honda Taiana "The Power of Dreams" via ultra sound. The drain screw in the swimmer chamber was stuck and Peter broke it. He drilled it and fitted a new one. Great, now I could drain old gasoline. I also bought a bigger 120 main jet, cause Graeme Barden told me so.
- Many screws replaced by inox ones
- The aluminium mudguards looked similar to the original grey fiber ones, almost like a Pre65
- However, I fitted red Bultaco ones, for the first crashes till I will be used to the handling, looked now like a red Honda fighter...
Finally, I could ride a bit in fornt of my house. Some kicks and the beast was alive, bang, bang, great sound (although my son and wife complained about the noise, ignorants...) The Honda is heavy as described, but the engine had a lot of power at low revs, 1st/2nd/3rd gear, a twist and it produced a wheely, but afterwards a bang in the exhaust, maybe because no silencer ? or wrong ignition timing? It did not rev...shoot...I changed to the biger 120 main jet back to the 115 original one. Kick, 1st gear, plopp..What happened? In the gasoline hose to the carb was more air than gasoline. I took off the hose and gasoline was only drippling out of the petcock. So, take off tank, clean petcock, many sediments and sand...Everything cleaned, Bang, now the engine was back to live again. OK, I will have to clean it more often.
With a stroboscopic light I checked the ignition timing, which indicated an earlier (more advanced) timing than the mark. Unfortunately, the ignition is running in oil and it spills out of the opened sidecover. I will do some more try&error at my trainings ground.
18 September 2005