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Need general information on 69-73 yamaha dt175
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[QUOTE="City Hunter, post: 1262923, member: 84517"] Hey all. I just picked this beauty of a bike up today. See picture below :) I have no real information on the bike. It was 50 bucks so I figured what the hell, If I toss 50 into fixing small things up and it rides in the woods, then I am doing great. Looks to be a early dt175 The guy I bought it from said it was a dt175 but not sure on the year. I've never owned a 2 stroke before, always ridden 4's all my life, so this is a bit new. Especially the bike having 2 spark plugs, and all the lights n what not taken off, which I dont really care for, but the headlight would be nice. I noticed there looked to be a spot for a small battery or something under the seat. Now I have confirmed I do have spark, and I know fuel is getting to the plugs because they were both wet and fowled, What really blew my mind was I have a ngk bpr8es plug on one side, then some ancient looking autolite that just says 64 resistor which were totally different plugs. The ngk is the same style I run in my large turbo starion engine, then the other seems to be a pretty hot plug.. The guy said his son said it was running in the summer and he just ran it out of gas. I suppose it's possible? It has compression, and kicks over good. First I need to know what plugs this thing takes, and at what gap? Second, I seem to be missing a second spark plug wire? Any ideas here? If I am, can I get the setup off any other old yamaha bikes? I didnt see any cut wires , but I havent pulled the tank either. third Can I just run 2 stroke oil in the oil injection or what? I didnt even know it had injection oil and poured some mixed stuff in the tank. I'll have to dump it out tomorrow. Anything else I should look out for? Lastly, do I get the award for ugliest possibly near running bike? :laugh: I'm heading to the local motorcycle salve yard tomorrow to dig up a seat and some other parts possible. Hopefully I can source a straighter tank and fenders, who knows, maybe even a set of forks. I blew one of the seals out when I strapped it down from the rust on the very top of the fork lol I'll try and get a vin number tomorrow and some better pictures. [/QUOTE]
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