Briget's bike-disassembled (mostly)

Briget has been slowly removing bits and pieces from her bike and this is the way it looks right now

The stock tires are 3" in the front and 3.5" in the back, we decided to try 4" in the front and 5" in the back. This is a picture of the old rear tire and the new one. Believe it or not, the wide tire actually fits!

The rear wheel, cleaned up as good as it's going to get

The rear hub after a lot of time with a polisher, it's looking pretty good.

Cleaning carbs and getting them running

We begun by taking the carbs off both bikes and the one on the red bike was so bad that it's good only for spare parts. The gas tank on the red one was also rusted right through the bottom. Neither bikes had batteries or all the wires hooked up. I did a compression test on both bikes, red one had 30 psi and silver one had 60 psi. I pulled the better carb apart and Briget cleaned the whole thing up with a toothbrush and some carb cleaner then I put it back together. I put it on the silver bike and added some gas. I couldn't get spark no matter what I did, even after putting voltage directly to the positive side of the coil. Using a multimeter, I discovered that the points were not making contact because of corrosion. A little rubbing with emory cloth and they were making contact again, and I got spark. I couldn't kick the engine over fast enough to fire so we pull started the bike. It fired up and drove surprisingly well. Then we did the same process with the red bike and it fired up and drove as well. Here are the pics and the video.

Check out the homemade screw in the carb

The fuel filter is full of junk

Trying to get spark

Silver bike running

Red bike running

The Plan

Briget and I purchased two 1965 Harley Davidson Sprint 250 motorcycles and we plan to customize both of them. We will post pictures and descriptions of the whole process and this is the beginning. Here are both bikes as we got them. Not running, missing parts and  tangled electrical systems.