I'm looking a a 1974 Kawasaki F11 250 as a winter project. Just got off the phone and he said that he thought the top end was seized up. He had just replaced the rings, fired it up and went for a short ride. Seems he got only about 3/4mile down the road when it quit running.
He tried kicking it over when it got real hard to kick over. He figures the rings seized to the cylinder, he has not removed the cylinder to inspect.
Question: This bike uses the oil injection system, no pre-mix of gas required. I am totally unfamiliar with the injection systems. Is this system pretty rock solid, cause it almost sounds like there was an issue with it when he took it for its break in ride, even though he said there was blue smoke from the exhaust pipe indicating that some amount of oil was getting in to the cylinder.
He's asking $300 for the bike, everything seems to be there except for blinkers. I'm not afraid to sink a few hundred bucks into a project bike, but if you guys tell me the oil systems on these things suck, well then i may reconsider.
thanks
He tried kicking it over when it got real hard to kick over. He figures the rings seized to the cylinder, he has not removed the cylinder to inspect.
Question: This bike uses the oil injection system, no pre-mix of gas required. I am totally unfamiliar with the injection systems. Is this system pretty rock solid, cause it almost sounds like there was an issue with it when he took it for its break in ride, even though he said there was blue smoke from the exhaust pipe indicating that some amount of oil was getting in to the cylinder.
He's asking $300 for the bike, everything seems to be there except for blinkers. I'm not afraid to sink a few hundred bucks into a project bike, but if you guys tell me the oil systems on these things suck, well then i may reconsider.
thanks