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friiy
Location: Las Vegas, The Desert
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Re: Choke arm has the jitters. It there a cure for this ailment?
Reply #14 Dec 12, 2008 12:55 pm |
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The Good Stuff... let me see... The old Kawasaki TD-24, TF-22 , series engines on OPE back in the early 80's to 90's (2 stroke)...The Coleman powermate 1000 generators Late 70's early 80's Kawasaki 4 stroke l-head (started the run on quality small affordable generators) Echo PB-210e blowers, I have seen them run YEARS every day for hours... and the Echo CS-280e pruning saw.. Echo pb-400 backpack blower.. Those are the things that preformed and made customers happy, they sold themselves... Friiy
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borat
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Re: Choke arm has the jitters. It there a cure for this ailment?
Reply #17 Dec 12, 2008 8:07 pm |
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I think Echo is one of the few OPE manufacturers that might have improved. Not so much in durability. I doubt there was ever an issue with that. Technologically they've made some very good advancement is cleaning up exhaust emissions, reducing engine noise& vibration and overall excellent fuel economy. In the last year and a half I've purchased a leaf blow, a weed eater and a small chain saw, all Echo products. I have nothing but praise for all of them. Not saying that Stihl, Jonsereds, Husqvarnara etc. are not good products. They are. It's the combination of top notch product quality at very reasonable prices that make Echo so attractive. By the way, a well maintained two stroke will provide many years of reliable service. I'm working on a 34 year old Yamaha RD350 right now. As old as it is, it's more than capable of lasting another 34 years...if well maintained.
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pvrp
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Re: Choke arm has the jitters. It there a cure for this ailment?
Reply #18 Dec 12, 2008 10:35 pm |
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By the way, a well maintained two stroke will provide many years of reliable service. I'm working on a 34 year old Yamaha RD350 right now. I cut my teeth on a Yamaha R5, much the same as yours except 5 speeds and a drum brake up front. That was 30 years or so ago. I bought it second hand then rebuilt everything and made it look as much as I could like a TZ350. I went everywhere with that bike. One night at a party I let a guy take it for a ride and he smashed it up. That was the end of my motorcycling days. I was kind of glad in a way since I was beginning to see that I was living somewhat dangerously zipping around on that little roadster. Paul
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pvrp
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Re: Choke arm has the jitters. It there a cure for this ailment?
Reply #21 Dec 13, 2008 10:29 am |
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An R5? Alright! I have a '72 Mandarin Orange R5 out in the shed waiting it's turn for restoration. Wild little hotrods those old things were. I restored/hopped up an RD400 earlier this hear. Lots of go fast goodies in it and virtually every possible wear item replaced. I had a bit of a learning curve getting it tuned correctly with the modified air intake system, modified carbs and expansion chambers as well as setting the the best programable electronic igniton curve. Once I had everything dialed in, I was startled how quick this little thing is.
I loved the sound of my bike once I put those expansion chambers on. I moved the footpegs back, had clip-on handlebars, single seat. At the time I was the only one on the road with a racing fairing, now they've all got them. The people in the shop where I worked thought I was weird. We sold Honda and Ski-doo/Canam, so I was a bit of a traitor. Programmable ignition curve ? Never heard of such a thing. I remember playing with jets and needles and then setting the timing so it wouldn't knock, that was about it. I went to the motorcycle mechanics school in Daytona Beach back in '77. That was a blast. One of the teachers was into hot-rodding 50cc mopeds. He had one that would do 70mph. Paul
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friiy
Location: Las Vegas, The Desert
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Re: Choke arm has the jitters. It there a cure for this ailment?
Reply #23 Dec 14, 2008 4:50 am |
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The Kawasaki engines I was talking about were on a lot of diffrent equip. Astron, Kazz, TMC, even the old Homelite commerical trimmers.. I found one picture of a TF22 engine on a Hedge trimmer, I don't know what brand... Alot of people at the time thought that Kawasaki made the equipment.. but they were just a supplier of engines.. This you could get this engine for a few diffrent applications, They sold it with a fuel tank fill pointing the cap whatever you needed it depending on the mount...this engine was about $280 bucks by its self... The hedge trimmer sold for about $330 in 94-95.. I think this is a Astron from the sticker on the top, The Td24 engine was a 24 cc model. It had diffrent coloring and shape.. Friiy
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