{"id":12268,"date":"2014-03-31T23:24:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T04:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/?p=12268"},"modified":"2016-05-05T15:52:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T20:52:55","slug":"1975-dt175b-cleanup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/2014\/03\/1975-dt175b-cleanup\/","title":{"rendered":"1975 DT175B | Clean-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has almost been a full year since I bought my 1975 DT175b for $500 not running but with a title and I got what I paid for… a shitty, beat enduro and I love it. Here’s the photos from when I first picked it up HERE<\/a>. <\/p>\n

It took some work to get it back on the road but I was able to do for about $200 and I made my goal of having a pit bike for Mid-Ohio which ruled. Since then, I’ve put ~400 (hard miles) on it and now it’s in need of some work to keep it running the rest of the year… and to make it better than Ed’s CT175.<\/p>\n

As it started in May 2013. Full post HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Back on the lift as it looks now. Just a little beat up.<\/p>\n

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Disassembly<\/p>\n

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Top end came off without any issues. I wish had a hose to wash the bike down before working on it. <\/p>\n

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The head is going to Mar Automotive<\/a> to get cleaned and honed. I can’t seem to figure out what size the piston is based on the numbers and it needs to be replaced but Mar should be able to tell me what size piston I need to buy.<\/p>\n

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It looks like the timing was off at one point before I owned it since the piston shows signs of melting through a little.<\/p>\n

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My engine has always had a rattling noise that I’m going to try and fix so I’ll be going through the different tolerance checks. The crankarm free play should be between .4mm and .6mm. Mine is unfortunately measuring at .7mm but I doubt this is the cause of the knocking. I don’t plan to get that deep into splitting case and replacing washers and bearings right now since I don’t have the tools or experience of getting into that.<\/p>\n

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I mocked up a MT125 Elsinore front wheel from Chris F. I really want to run a 21 dirt wheel and this one will work with some modification and it came with a decent dirt tire. I plan to copy Dan’s brake mount solution<\/a> he posted awhile ago on Greasy Gringo<\/a>. That and turning a simple spacer should make the wheel work.<\/p>\n

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Next up: Engine reassembly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It has almost been a full year since I bought my 1975 DT175b for $500 not running but with a title and I got what I paid for… a shitty, beat enduro and I love it. Here’s the photos from when I first picked it up HERE. It took some work to get it back […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[156,204,224],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12268"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12353,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12268\/revisions\/12353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}