Tortron's 1985 DR200 *they call me mello yello*

[flyingbrick]

Thanks bro, same address u came to last time plz

[tortron]

 

This bike kicks back way more than every other dr200 engine i have, im assuming its cos theres a pool of oil leaked into the cylinder, normally its a lazy kick and away they go.

Its got some nice bars and a battery tender on it, wonder if its got a milled head too

 

1999 DF200.

TIL that DF200s are actually different from DR200 farm bikes. They are a road frame converted to farm bike spec. pillion pegs, different rear rack mounting, provision for only 1 kick stand and anodized black alloy rims

 

I can see why the deleted the rear peg loop, if you drop the bike it bends them, it breaks the frame, and the pegs then cut the swingam..... noting too bad for a farm/bush bike tho

being a bush bike means its really a river bike tho

[jessemk2]

Did it come with the alarm or did you install it

[tortron]

I'm just gona buy all of these yellow suzukis tbh

 

[tortron]

Mainly because they are all turbo fucked

 

 

I mean yamaha parts on a suzuki. Grot

 

 

 

Has the good carb, an unrusted muffler, decent plastic tank, and the engine should run with a new side cover so although it's a huge piece of crap it was worth the price of admission for even half those parts

 

3" kick stand can fuck off tho

[tortron]

Wanted to tidy up the plastics a bit. Got some white and blue vinyl ages ago but got time today 

 

[tortron]

 

There's a couple different decal sets for these. Straight blue seems pretty common. The white is a little less common Decided to go with blue on these spare covers

 

I want to get some mellow yellow livery for it with the old logo

 

[Ken]

g'day mate, really enjoyed watching your vids on the old DR, on the off chance, you wouldnt happen to have a complete wiring loom for and old DR200G 85?, i have 2 DR's currently, the G is the white model and the J is yellow, cheers man

 

[tortron]

I think I just have a couple of extra late model farm bike looms.

There's a couple of small differences, but you could run a later loom without any major rewiring. There were a few different cdi plugs used over the years,but it may have been a road legal vs farmbike differences, and maybe the stator plugs were reversed male.and female.

I have 2 complete other 80s DRs that are just about to the front of the queue to restore, so i have been guarding my parts stash tbh

[Ken]

cheers for the reply man, nah scratch that loom idea, im going down the route of getting the yellow girl road ready at some stage,  your vids helped in that regard, the white girl ill be pillaging  all the road gear from, she'll just be a farm thumper but ill get it close to original looking as i can with non functioning lights blah blah, just need to get her running, she sat for 20years, recond engine apparently, good compression, no spark, so process of elimination i suppose...wiring has been butchered, missing air box/brake caliper/. has a keihin carb, dunno whats up with that, but ill sort, only had the white one for 24hrs.

[tortron]

If you want a new loom try here

https://www.mickhone.com.au/part/suzuki/3661044A20#content

 

The keihin carb is probably a good replacement, the mikuni tm28 is kind of hard to get parts for if it needs them.

You should be able to use a modern dr airbox and brake calliper. Don't see many white plastic ones, might check the frame number on that to see if it was registered. Does it have a tail light too, they are pretty hard to come by in once piece, though you can get replacement lenses

 

 

I have one engine that just refuses to spark, I have swapped everything electrical on it to good parts, even swapping the loom, stator etc and nothing. 

Stator in an early engine is different to the later engines,  I think physically different in size and I remember something being mounted inside vs outside, but been a while since I looked

[Ken]

sweet...thanks again mate, i do love this white one, has its tail light complete, so that will go on the yellow one, have a white headlight on order from another good ole kiwi dude, i'll score a later model airbox and caliper, they seem cheap enough, just swapped coils over, theyre both good, so i can eliminate the coil theory, mind you there's allsorts of splicing and shit that have gone on, so hopefully i'll decipher it all and get spark fingers crossed then move on to the carb, im hopeful at this stage, just in the process of grabbing the speedo and key ignition assy off the white one, hard to divide time between both bikes, you know the feeling lol.