Will This 48yr old FREE Bike Get me 253 miles Home?

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[guypigache]

Ok, I start with a confession. Many of the US motorcycle channels are a bit too "heavy metal" for me (a Brit). But this channel is real fun. The guys have a great sense of humour, a bucketful of humility and just get stuff done. Really enjoying your uploads.

[SeanLeonard-dl]

Don't bypass the oil injection on old Suzukis. Many inject oil directly to the crank bearings and can't be lubricated from the fuel alone.

[scottthomson]

Ive never seen a grown man show so much pure joy and excitement. I am truly jealous. What a good dude.

[jonathantanner]

Craig is absolutely crushing it as a solo host!

[forrest_dumb]

Was totally hyped for part 2 of that video after celebrating that you get it running again.

I would have taped the intake from the airbox partially to compensate for the missing filter and make it run more rich.
We did stuff like that to test around when fixing our 2 stroke scooters.

Its always better to run a 2 stroke too rich than too lean - especially when you run a machine that you cant trust.

[aki_Olive]

This is actually very poetic, the bike didn't die sitting in a barn but like a warrior dying in battle it died doing what it was made to do.

[calculus]

Cmon man, you felt the hanging idle knew it was lean and drove it like madman through hills anyway. That hole in the piston is 100% on you. You killed that motor.

[MrFelixGun]

You know it's going to be a good day when my new favorite channel uploads a video. Keep em coming Craig!

[Rapscallion]

As a biker in the early 90's, 2-Stroke engines are just SO nostalgic. The noise and smell takes me back 30-odd years to hooning about with my friends around the village I grew up in. I occasionally wish I could go back to those long-long, halcyon days of having no responsibilities or really many cares in the world. The time was now, the point of life was pleasure and we were all going to live forever.

[keithh]

The piston most likely melted due to the lean condition from the air leak (vacuum line unhooked). Great video!

[mementomori]

It's a shame seeing it being destroyed like that. Even in this condition, those bikes are pretty valuable here where I live. If you're lucky enough to find one in decently good, running condition (I'm not talking restored or anything) be prepared to pay between $7k - $10k...even more for really good ones. That's kind of what to expect, if you do the bare minimum on those bikes and run it like that. I wish I could afford one of those, even in this condition. I would love to restore it.

[A_S_]

Really interested to see more of this bike having had some experience with them myself. The thing you need to know is that these bikes are not designed or jetted to run on premix and the crank bearings are shielded so they need the oil pump to get proper lubrication. In a good running condition, these bikes put out 48.5 bhp and are actually quite quick for an early 70s bike and can keep up with modern traffic pretty well.

[thomashowlett]

I know that this video is over a year old, and that virtually no one is going to read this, but it needs to be said before too many of these old Suzuki two-strokes get terminally ruined. The Suzuki CCI oil injection system is not like what was used in most other oil injected engines. On the Suzuki CCI system, oil was fed directly to the crank main bearings, and through a system of clever channels/slingers, was routed to the rod big end bearing before mixing with the air/fuel mixture to lubricate the cylinder/piston. So therefore if you try to run the engine on premix only, you could be starving those critical bearings of lubrication. I grew up working on these engines back in the '70s, and saw so many well intentioned owners disconnecting the oil injection system thinking they were unreliable, but were in fact sentencing them to an early death (the engine, not the owner lol).

[vvega]

For those that don’t know ….. the jetting for the motor was setup for fuel only .
Adding oil to petrol means for a given volume .. it now has less petrol, making the bike run lean …. Because the oil normally comes in through the oil injection .
So essentially
100% petrol runs way way richer than a 20:1 mix .
It’s the cheap and dirty way to play with fueling ratios when tuning a 2 stroke
Anyways, if you ever change an oil injection 2 stroke over to premix … remember to size up the jets about 25% on a 40:1

[tylerstalmach-pyne]

something thats easily overlooked, by running premix in an injection bike the fuel oil mix is rich but it takes fuel away from the air fuel mix. premix in an otherwise injection bike makes a lean condition. cool as hell, definitely deserves some love and sounds awesome

[rwl]

An old trick to plug vacuum hoses is to always carry some golf tees with you. They are tapered so they fit all sizes. Also with these old 2 strokes, always carry a spare set of plugs.

[wheeldrive]

I bought a GT550 project bike when I was in the Navy down in Virginia around 1980. It was almost as bad as yours. It had sat outside under a tarp and everything in the engine was toast. After I moved back north I found a second one that had a running engine but was pretty rough otherwise. I put the two bikes together and had a nice running 2-smoker for very short money.

Rode it around for a few years and then shipped it off to my brother-in-law in Missouri when I upgraded to a BMW K100RT. He never told me what became of it, but I assume that he lost interest and just got rid of it. It was a fun bike. Didn’t handle all that well, and the brakes were only so-so, but had lots of 2-stroke power. Ring, ring, ring…

[KungFuFighter-hk]

You are a very brave man. To ride that bike, that far, through tunnels, over bridges, through a metropolitan area and almost pass another vehicle on the highway is impressive, very impressive. You've got some incredible gifts Craig, thanks for sharing them with us. Oh, I almost forgot, throw something at Dan.

[mattpauley]

Craig, you are crushing it as a solo show! I'm not a motorcycle guy or very mechanically inclined but I really like these videos! I also appreciated the Sean voiceover recap at the start.

[specialse]

these are the only vids i always watch end to been fixing up old bikes my entire life 😊love it, its like archaeology when it comes to its previous life .