1972 Suzuki F50

[RUNAMUCK]

Be forewarned, this rabbit hole is a lot deeper and wider that you can possibly imagine............

[yoeddynz]

I shall remain strong

[cubastreet]

Would you consider dropping a Honda engine in it?

[GregT]

Back in the day when those were common, a certain shop in ChCh were notorious for doing "5 minute tuneups" on small 2 strokes.

Take it out into the back alley and rev the tits off it for a few minutes and it's done.  Timing didn't move on them but the exhaust port would carbon up when running around town. Revving would knock the carbon off the port edges - principally the top edge. Once the top edge was clean it ran a shitload better. Part of it was the oils available too. Semi synth now burns a lot cleaner.

Do say four or five of those a day, charging 1 hour minimum each and you see how the foreman was regularly charging out 12 hours plus for an 8 hour day. Owner had a posh house in Fendalton too.  That shop is long gone thankfully. But the trick lives on.

[felixx]

How is this wee bike going alex?

 

[yoeddynz]

Hey Glen. I sold it on to some young English fella in Nelson. He loves it. I just want going to use it enough and would rather have an old road legal trail bike in the future. 

Money was handy for imp project. 

[menschy442]

anyone know how much crankcase oil the Suzuki F50 takes? cant seem to find it anywhere. not on the block or online.... maybe someone here knows 

and using 10w-40 motorcycle wet clutch oil.. unless someone recommends something else. 

[tortron]

20 minutes ago, menschy442 said:

anyone know how much crankcase oil the Suzuki F50 takes? cant seem to find it anywhere. not on the block or online.... maybe someone here knows 

and using 10w-40 motorcycle wet clutch oil.. unless someone recommends something else. 

https://www.suzukicycles.org/FR-series/F50.shtml#gsc.tab=0

 

 

its probably got a second bolt on there that you take out, and fill the oil up till it spills out that hole?

[Hush]

So I see this old post and was wondering if you still had the bike as I bought one identical a few months ago and yeah getting info on the F50 is difficult.