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yak651
3/16/2017 7:01pm
3/16/2017 7:01pm
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1/22/2018 10:08am
Last year I picked up an '05 YZ125 that was pretty rough and rebuilt it during the winter. I always did my own maintenance for the most part and try to keep my bikes looking nice but this was my first real complete rebuild from top to bottom. I made a topic last year on my progress here: http://www.vitalmx.com/forums/Race-Shop,42/Another-YZ-Rebuild,1294526 and went from this
To this:
Original plan was to keep this but I figured what the heck I have a 250f I like to ride, this thing looks good maybe i should see what I can get for it before I scratch it all up. Listed it on a facebook page for a price I didn't think I would get and happened to have a couple people contact that wanted to buy it and one gave me a price I couldn't refuse so down the road it went...fast forward to this fall and start thinking I really should try to find another 125 to work on this winter as I enjoyed passing my time in the garage last year on the last project. Searching craigslist found a couple but no one really wanted to come down to a price that I figured would make it worth my while. Finally right around Thanksgiving (about same time as I found my deal last year) there was an '06 about 2 hours north of me that had been for sale for about a month. I threw out a low ball offer (I know sorry I'm one of those people), the person came back not offended but said he couldn't do that price as he just rebuilt it, was in good shape, blah....I told him understand but that's all I can do. Black Friday he gets ahold of me and says that if I want it come and get it, so got in the truck and took a drive. He told me "yamaha trained mechanic" had rebuilt it before I drove up, get there and ask if he cares if I start it up. You can try but it doesn't start, carb is leaking gas thru it. I was pretty disappointed as I was under the impression it ran. Look a little closer and it's dripping oil thru the crankcase, as stated gas poured out carb when turning the gas on and see leaky fork seal. Tell him no deal and begin to leave. He ask what it will take to put it in my truck a little back and forth and I took a risk and loaded it up
To this:
Original plan was to keep this but I figured what the heck I have a 250f I like to ride, this thing looks good maybe i should see what I can get for it before I scratch it all up. Listed it on a facebook page for a price I didn't think I would get and happened to have a couple people contact that wanted to buy it and one gave me a price I couldn't refuse so down the road it went...fast forward to this fall and start thinking I really should try to find another 125 to work on this winter as I enjoyed passing my time in the garage last year on the last project. Searching craigslist found a couple but no one really wanted to come down to a price that I figured would make it worth my while. Finally right around Thanksgiving (about same time as I found my deal last year) there was an '06 about 2 hours north of me that had been for sale for about a month. I threw out a low ball offer (I know sorry I'm one of those people), the person came back not offended but said he couldn't do that price as he just rebuilt it, was in good shape, blah....I told him understand but that's all I can do. Black Friday he gets ahold of me and says that if I want it come and get it, so got in the truck and took a drive. He told me "yamaha trained mechanic" had rebuilt it before I drove up, get there and ask if he cares if I start it up. You can try but it doesn't start, carb is leaking gas thru it. I was pretty disappointed as I was under the impression it ran. Look a little closer and it's dripping oil thru the crankcase, as stated gas poured out carb when turning the gas on and see leaky fork seal. Tell him no deal and begin to leave. He ask what it will take to put it in my truck a little back and forth and I took a risk and loaded it up
Not a ran of hot rod cranks, but since brand new figured just keep it. He did give me the old OEM crank, will most likely eventually have it rebuilt for a spare and if I keep the bike rebuild it next year with it. Took lead from some on hear and made a fancy two by four wood engine holder... Cleaned things up and put it together (with Yamabond!).
Can't afford the fancy titanium bolts with drilled washers but did update some of the OEM with better looking OEM hardware
Rebuilt the carb with new internals to fix the leak. This fall winter also did a winter kitchen remodel. With the credit card points I earned from all the purchases, used those to pick up a Vforce and new pipe/silencer thru Amazon using those points.
The Shop
Also updated the front fender and # plate to new style KX
Made a spacer to mount up the plate, will get a picture of it installed tomorrow
fitting spacers
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