Dustin87R
01-19-2015, 10:48 PM
Well I guess it's time I start a build thread for this 85 T3 I picked up off of CL a few months back. It's pretty rough as you can tell but it's almost impossible to find them here in the south so when this one popped up I jumped on it. I was expecting it to need quite a bit of work but when I picked it up I was surprised to see how pieced together this thing actually was. The rear axle and master cylinder are from a Tri-Z the silencer is from a different bike and it's missing a lot of hardware. The engine would run but the intake boot was cracked and it needed some carb work. I replaced the axle with a spare I had and ordered an intake boot from Jeswinehart so I could ride it a few times before tearing it down for a complete restoration. While changing out the intake boot believe it or not I realized this thing had been running without reeds. John helped me out again by sending me a spare set he had and I finally got around to putting it back together this weekend. It will need some fine tuning but I'm very pleased with the way it runs for now. I've got a few other projects going right now so this will probably be a long build.