Two-stroke motor can get the heart of the cr500 is out it's a whole lot bigger than the last 125 the piston on this thing looks about the size of my fist which means nothing but big power the thing washed up super nice i mean it almost surprised me and how the plastic brightened up and brought me back maybe some inspiration to maybe go a little bit more on the restoration side and the custom side happy to have eyes on everything and excited that's a clean dirt bike parts so i can't wait to get tearing this thing down.
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It's all uphill from here so today's the calm before the storm on the cr500 project i have almost everything cleaned and disassembled with the exception of a few parts like the wheels that i'll be taking apart today and i've been waiting on a horde of parts to come in covet has created a massive upturn in the motorcycle industry which has been great for people getting out and riding but for those trying to rebuild a cr500 right now it's a little bit difficult so some of the things like tracking down a pipe and some of the plastics i ended up having to go through ebay just to find one.
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I was worried about most of the parts coming in but i think we have them all at this point tomorrow marks one week until day in the dirt bike parts so i have some late nights to put in in true project two-stroke fashion that's how they've always been so i'm looking forward to burning some midnight oil one thing that gives a lot of people trouble is carburetor maintenance as a whole you know if you're on top of it and you drain your float bowl every time you ride you're never gonna really have to worry about this but this bike's been sitting for quite a few years so i just want to take it apart completely look over everything make sure all the ports passengers and jets are completely clean try to shine it up a little bit make it look like a brand new 94. it's actually a little bit less daunting than people think carb service isn't too difficult the most important part is just starting the job if i drain the float bowl after i ride it and keep on top of it i shouldn't really have to ever do this again [Applause] so this is literally the last new cr500 header i was able to find in the entire nation i checked all the big manufacturers distributors small shops dirt bike parts big shops i ended up finding this one at lake elsinore it's kind of exactly what i want i love that gas gas motorcycles for sale raw finish you'll notice when you get one of these a lot of them have a little bit of tooling marks on them from the manufacturing process i just start hitting that with some 320 grit sandpaper wet sanding climb the ladder until i get a nice even finish across the board and then hit it with a scotch-brite wheel they do take a little bit more labor than the chrome pipes you can just get
