Ramblings From Justin Penney

My sister has a Honda Spree that was at my grandparents house. It hadn't started in a few years and I thought it would be fun to rip it open and get it working again.

After getting it home I immediately ripped the body work off, drained the gas tank, and rebuilt the carburetor. I still need to drain and refill the oil tank. After getting the cleaned up carb back on I tried to start it using the kick start lever ... well something snapped inside.

Then, I snapped my thumb and it's been languishing in the garage.

Donson from The Motorcyclist Cafe happened to have an extra Spree motor and was kind enough to ship it to me. Tonight, with only one working hand, I finally pulled the massive 49 cc motor out and started inspecting it. I pulled the side cover and found all of the parts that I broke with my overzealous kicking. I also found that the starter is pretty much done as it won't even reliably flick the motor when the spark plug is removed.

I'm heading in the right direction. Hopefully I'll have my left hand back in action next week and I can get this little toy running.

# posted by Justin @ 10:34 PM