Spud, you said that the bike has a reliable clone of a honda engine, yet it appears to be almost the same bike as your sierra 200, which is a yamaha clone... i'm a bit confused here. Besides being air cooled, and apparently a little torque-ier (as evidenced above by larger bore and shorter stroke) are there many differences between mine and the 167 engines?
I welcomed a new baby girl, and a new high stress job on the same day 5 months ago, so there has been little opportunity for me to do anything other than dream about riding the bike. It is being stored in my buddy's garage so I have barely even seen it since I got it a few months ago. I had the afternoon off today and had a few hours to go over and fondle the bike.
I took my time looking over it, trying to take in all aspects of it's construction. I removed the left plastic side cover, and I removed the battery and put it on charge. I noted the location of various parts and components, and visually traced wiring - as best I could, and I took a lot of pctures. Regretably, I forgot to bring my multi-meter. After having looked it over extensively, I am quite impressed by some things, not so much with other things. I don't like that the oil filler cap is chrome plated plastic, I think I'm going to try to locate a metal one. I LOVE that there is a sight glass on the crankcase instead of a dipstick! No idea if this is common on motorcycles since this is my first one, but it's brilliant! The ignition switch had been tampered with, and there was no key so I ordered a replacement the other day, but all I could find was a generic one that is designed to be mounted in a through hole, it has plastic spring clips to hold it in place.
This is it. The factory ignition switch on my bike is substantially more robust than the plastic replacement I ordered, it has a metal housing and mounts to a flange that employs a spring loaded steering lock deadbolt. The one I ordered will work for now, but I want to replace it with a stock or similar unit for obvious reasons - any idea where to purchase one? Since I didn't have a key, I removed the switch and cut the wires. I hooked up jumper cables from my truck and no matter which combination of the 4 ignition switch wires I connected, I couldn't even get the horn or lights to work, much less the electric starter. I did verify that the fuse on the pos battery wire is intact. I traced the wires back and found that the red wire goes to the CDI, the green wire is ground, the solid black wire appears to go to the ignition coil, and not sure where the black wire with white stripe terminates, thought it may have been for the clutch or brake switch so I shorted both of those - still nothing. I guess when the new switch comes I will plug it in and maybe at least get power to the accessories, I'll also bring my meter and check for continuity at the switch and report back, hopefully it comes tomorrow
I'm also VERY concerned about this
6 wires in, 1 wire out usually = no worky worky
no idea what these wires are, but the green side with 6 wires goes into the engine cover, so I'm thinking maybe magneto??
The VIN plate says "manufactured by Zongshen Group China, Imported by United Motors of America" When searching for bike specific parts, should I be looking up Zongshen parts, or UM? I have found several websites with generic china bike parts for 125-250cc dirt bikes, but as I am still not sure of what exactly to call this bike(still don't know the model name), I don't really know where to start looking. Several of the links posted in this forum for parts and manuals are from a few years ago and are now dead links. I did DL the Zongshen engine manual, and it will no doubt be invaluable as I dig deeper into this project
Thanks so much for your patience and support - how the hell did anything get accomplished by the DIYer before internet forums?